James Abraham Garfield "Jim" PottsAge: 691890–1959
- Name
- James Abraham Garfield "Jim" Potts
- Given names
- James Abraham Garfield
- Nickname
- Jim
- Surname
- Potts
| Birth | 17 January 1890 27 31 Frankston, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1890 Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | 6 July 1891 (Age 17 months) Frankston, Victoria, Australia
paternal grandfather -
John Henry Potts
|
| Birth of a brother | 26 October 1891 (Age 21 months) Frankston, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
William Robert "Bill" Potts
|
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 11 months) Note: A National Australasian Convention meets, agrees on adopting the name 'the Commonwealth of Australia' and drafting a constitution. Note: The first attempt at a federal constitution is drafted. Note: The Convention adopts the constitution, although it has no legal status Note: A severe depression hits Australia |
| Newspaper | Story 1 August 1892 (Age 2) Frankston, Victoria, Australia Mornington Standard (Vic. : 1889 - 1908) Thursday 14 April 1892 Jim Potts goes missing at 2 YO
Note:
On Friday last word was conveyed to Constable Moore, of Frankston, that a child of Mr Oliver Potts, …
On Friday last word was conveyed to Constable Moore, of Frankston, that a child of Mr Oliver Potts, aged about two and a half years, was lost in the bush.
From what we can learn it appears that Mr Potts was removing from his residence in Skye to one lately occupied by Mr Hennigs. During the time of removing the little fellow strayed into the bush, and his absence was not noticed for some time.
When he was missed diligent search was made but without success, and it was decided to ask for the assistance of the black trackers. Before they arrived, Constable Moore had succeeded in tracing him and restoring him to his parents. The child was missing eight and a half hours. |
| Australian History | 1892 (Age 23 months) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Birth of a brother | 27 May 1893 (Age 3) Frankston, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Jabez Jagger "Jay" Potts M.B.E. J.P.
|
| Residence | September 1893 (Age 3) Healesville, Victoria, Australia Note: According to JJ Potts this is the date the family moved from Frankston to Healesville. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 2) Note: The Corowa Conference (the 'people's convention') calls on the colonial parliaments to pass enabling acts, allowing the election of delegates to a new constitutional convention aimed at drafting a proposal and putting it to a referendum in each colony. |
| Australian History | 1894 (Age 3) Note: South Australia becomes the first Australian colony, and the second place in the world, to grant women the right to vote, as well the first Parliament in the world to allow women to stand for office. |
| Australian History | 1895 (Age 4) Note: The premiers, except for those of Queensland and Western Australia, agree to implement the Corowa proposals. Note: Waltzing Matilda is first sung in public, in Winton, Queensland Note: Banjo Paterson publishes The Man from Snowy River |
| Birth of a brother | 21 June 1896 (Age 6) Healesville, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Charles Ernest Herbert "Charlie" Potts B.A.
|
| Australian History | 1896 (Age 5) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 6) Note: In two sessions, the Second National Australasian Convention meets (with representatives from all colonies except Queensland present). They agree to adopt a constitution based on the 1891 draft, and then revise and amend it later that year. Note: Catherine Helen Spence became the first female political candidate for political office, standing for election as a representative for South Australia. |
| Birth of a sister | 12 February 1898 (Age 8) Healesville, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Sarah Elizabeth Annie "Betty" Potts
|
| Australian History | 1898 (Age 7) Note: The Convention agrees on a final draft to be put to the people. Note: After much public debate, the Victorian, South Australian and Tasmanian referendums are successful; the New South Wales referendum narrowly fails. Later New South Wales votes 'yes' in a second referendum, and Queensland and Western Australia also vote to join. |
| Birth of a brother | 4 July 1899 (Age 9) Healesville, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Harold George Wilson Potts
|
| Australian History | 1899 (Age 8) Note: The decision is made to site the national capital in New South Wales, but not within 100 miles of Sydney. Note: The Australian Labor Party holds office for a few days in Queensland, becoming the first trade union party to do so anywhere in the world. Note: The first contingents from various Australian colonies are sent to South Africa to participate in the Second Boer War. |
| Australian History | 1900 (Age 9) Note: Several delegates visit London to resist proposed changes to the agreed-upon constitution. Note: The constitution is passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom as a schedule to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, and is given royal assent |
| Australian History | 1901 (Age 10) Note: (01 Jan) Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General Note: The first parliament met in Parliament House, Melbourne Note: Immigration Restriction act was introduced- The White Australian Policy Note: The Australian National Flag was flown for the first time |
| Australian History | 1902 (Age 11) Note: The Franchise Act guarantees women the right to vote in federal elections (by this stage, most states had already done this). However, it excludes most non-European ethnic groups, including Aboriginal people, unless already registered to vote on State roles. Note: King Edward VII approved the design of the Australian flag. Note: Breaker Morant is executed for having shot Boers who had surrendered |
| Australian History | 1903 (Age 12) Note: The High Court of Australia is established with Samuel Griffith as the first Chief Justice. Note: The Defence Act gives the federal government full control over the Australian Army Note: Alfred Deakin elected Prime Minister |
| Family Photo | Family Photo 16 July 1904 (Age 14) Badger Creek, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1904 (Age 13) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government |
| Birth of a brother | 8 October 1905 (Age 15) Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
John Walter Thomas Potts
|
| Adoption of a brother | 8 October 1905 (Age 15)
younger brother -
John Walter Thomas Potts
|
| Australian History | 1906 (Age 15) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Photo | Family Photo 13 November 1908 (Age 18) Healesville, Victoria, Australia Silver Wedding Anniversary Family Portraite 13 Nov 1908 at Healesville |
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 17) Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead |
| Australian History | 1909 (Age 18) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Occupation | Master Plasterer 1910 (estimated) (Age 19) |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 19) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 20) Note: The Royal Australian Navy is founded Note: The Northern Territory comes under Commonwealth control, being split off from South Australia Note: The first national census is conducted. Note: Australian Capital Territory proclaimed. |
| Australian History | 1912 (Age 21) Note: Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time Note: Walter Burley Griffin wins a design competition for the new city of Canberra |
| Australian History | 1913 (Age 22) Note: Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains. Note: Matthew Flinders refers to New South Wales by the name 'Australia'. |
| Australian History | 1913 (Age 22) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Residence | 1914 (Age 23) 173 Burwood Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 23) Note: Australian soldiers are sent to the First World War. This was first time Australians had fought under the Australian flag, as opposed to that of Britain's. |
| Marriage | Evelyn Maude Langley - View family 17 July 1915 (Age 25) Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia |
| Marriage of a sister | Elizabeth Violet Potts - View family 27 November 1915 (Age 25) Healesville, Victoria, Australia
brother-in-law -
Leslie Roy Langmead
elder sister -
Elizabeth Violet Potts
|
| Australian History | 1915 (Age 24) Note: (25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April. Note: Jervis Bay Territory comprising 6,677 hectares surrendered and becomes part of the Australia Capital Territory. Note: Surfing is first introduced to Australia Note: Billy Hughes became Prime Minister |
| Marriage of a brother | Jabez Jagger "Jay" Potts M.B.E. J.P. - View family 11 September 1916 (Age 26) Mordialloc, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Jabez Jagger "Jay" Potts M.B.E. J.P.
sister-in-law -
Ruby Caroline Miller
|
| Australian History | 1916 (Age 25) Note: Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill' Note: Australia suffers heavy casualties in the Western Front Battle of the Somme. Note: The Returned Sailors� and Soldiers� Imperial League of Australia, the forerunner to the Returned and Services League of Australia is founded Note: The Labor government under Billy Hughes splits over conscription. First referendum on conscription is rejected |
| Birth of a son #1 | 17 April 1917 (Age 27) Victoria, Australia
son -
Leonard Potts
|
| Marriage of a brother | Charles Ernest Herbert "Charlie" Potts B.A. - View family 15 September 1917 (Age 27) Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Charles Ernest Herbert "Charlie" Potts B.A.
sister-in-law -
Beryl Mayo Watson
|
| Australian History | 1917 (Age 26) Note: Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed. Note: Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade launches last cavalry charge in modern warfare to capture Beersheba from the Ottoman Turks. |
| Australian History | 1918 (Age 27) Note: (08 AUG) Battle of Amiens Note: Australian troops spearhead 8 August offensive against Hindenberg Line - the 'black day of the German Army'. Note: On 12 August, Australian commander General Sir John Monash is knighted in the field of battle by King George V Note: First World War ends - 60,000 Australians dead. Note: The Darwin Rebellion takes place, with 1,000 demonstrators demanding the resignation of the Administrator of the Northern Territory, John A. Gilruth. |
| Residence | 1919 (Age 28) 9 John Street, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia Note: Plasterer |
| Australian History | 1919 (Age 28) Note: Prime Minister Billy Hughes signs Treaty of Versailles: the first signing of an international treaty by Australia. Australia obtains League of Nations mandate over German New Guinea. |
| Birth of a son #2 | 6 April 1920 (Age 30) Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
son -
Albert James Potts
|
| Australian History | 1920 (Age 29) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 30) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 31) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Birth of a daughter #3 | 3 June 1923 (Age 33) Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Evelyn Maude "Betty" Potts
|
| Death of a wife | 4 June 1923 (Age 33)
wife -
Evelyn Maude Langley
|
| Burial of a wife | June 1923 (Age 33)
wife -
Evelyn Maude Langley
|
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 32) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Death of a son | 18 February 1924 (Age 34) Victoria, Australia
son -
Leonard Potts
|
| Residence | 1924 (Age 33) 20 Fletcher Street, Hawthorn East, Victoria, Australia |
| Marriage | Violet Marquerite Kirk - View family 2 November 1926 (Age 36) Sea Lake, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 35) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Marriage of a brother | Harold George Wilson Potts - View family 8 December 1927 (Age 37) Box Hill, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Harold George Wilson Potts
sister-in-law -
Emma Haines Sedgman
|
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 36) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Birth of a son #4 | 17 February 1928 (Age 38) |
| Death of a sister | 15 March 1928 (Age 38) Healesville, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Sarah Elizabeth Annie "Betty" Potts
|
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 37) Note: Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built. |
| Australian History | 1929 (Age 38) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 39) Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup |
| Residence | 1931 (Age 40) 20 Fletcher Street, Hawthorn East, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1931 (Age 40) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 41) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Death of a mother | 20 May 1933 (Age 43) Healesville, Victoria, Australia
mother -
Elizabeth "Betty" Carr
|
| Australian History | 1933 (Age 42) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Residence | 1936 (Age 45) 20 Fletcher Street, Hawthorn East, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1936 (Age 45) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | 1937 (Age 46) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 47) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 48) Note: (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government Note: (September) Australia enters the Second World War following the German Invasion of Poland. The 2nd Australian Imperial Force is raised. Note: The first flight is made by an Australian-made warplane, the Wirraway Note: Victoria is devastated by the Black Friday bushfires |
| Australian History | 1940 (Age 49) Note: A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin Note: Fascist Italy enters war, Royal Australian Navy engages Italian Navy in the early stages of the Battle of the Mediterranean. |
| Australian History | 1941 (Age 50) Note: 3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa. Note: Apr-Aug, Australian garrison (Rats of Tobruk) halt advance of Hitler's panzers for the first time during the Siege of Tobruk. Note: Menzies resigns and John Curtin becomes Prime Minister in the Curtin Government of 1941-45. |
| Australian History | 1942 (Age 51) Note: Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese Note: 1942-43 - Japanese air raids - almost 100 attacks against sites in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland. Note: The Royal Australian Navy and 6th and 7th Divisions of 2nd AIF are recalled from Mediterranean Theatre to participate in the anticipated Battle of Australia. Note: 1942-3 - Sparrow Force engages in guerilla campaign in Battle of Timor Note: Battle of the Coral Sea - United States and Royal Australian Navy halt advance of the Japanese towards Port Moresby (Australian Territory of Papua) Note: Battle of Kokoda Trail - Australian soldiers halt Japanese march on Port Moresby Note: Aug-Sep, Australian forces inflict the first defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle of Milne Bay. Note: Jul-Nov, Australia's 9th Division plays crucial role in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein, which turned the North Africa Campaign in favour of the Allies. Note: National daylight saving is introduced as a war time measure. Note: The UK Statute of Westminster is formally adopted by Australia. The Statute formally grants Australia the right to pass laws that conflict with UK laws. |
| Australian History | 1943 (Age 52) Note: Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary. Note: 2,815 Australian Pows die constructing Japan's Burma-Thailand Railway Note: 1943-44 - Australian forces engage Japan in New Guinea, Wau, and the Huon peninsula. |
| Death of a son | 6 July 1944 (Age 54) Maryborough, Queensland, Australia
son -
Albert James Potts
|
| Australian History | 1944 (Age 53) Note: Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW. Note: Japanese inflict Sandakan Death March on 2,000 Australian and British prisoners of war - only 6 survive. The single worst war crime perpetrated against Australians. Note: Australian forces battle Japanese garrisons from Borneo to Bougainville. Note: The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is introduced, providing subsidised medicine to all Australians |
| Death of a brother | 4 February 1945 (Age 55) Brighton East, Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
Herbert Henry "Bert" Thomas
|
| Australian History | 1945 (Age 54) Note: the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader. Note: Australian forces lead Battle of Borneo Note: (7 May) Nazi Germany surrenders Note: (July) Prime Minister Curtin dies and is replaced by Ben Chifley and the Chifley Labor Government Note: (1 August) Japan Surrenders Note: Australia becomes a founding member of the United Nations Note: The Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race is held for the first time |
| Australian History | 1946 (Age 55) Note: Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme Note: Norman Makin, is voted in as the first President of the United Nations Security Council. |
| Death of a father | 10 August 1948 (Age 58) Box Hill, Victoria, Australia
father -
Oliver Henry "O. H." Potts
|
| Photo | Funeral of O.H. August 1948 (Age 58) Healesville, Victoria, Australia Family photo taken at O.H.'s Funeral - Aug 1948 |
| Australian History | 1948 (Age 57) Note: Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly. Note: Australia becomes a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. |
| Residence | 1949 (Age 58) 20 Fletcher Street, Hawthorn East, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1949 (Age 58) Note: Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins Note: All indigenous ex-servicemen and any Indigenous Australians who are eligible to vote in State Elections (NSW, VIC, SA and TAS) are given an unrestricted right to vote in Federal Elections. Note: The Nationality and Citizenship Act is passed. Rather than being identified as subjects of Britain, the Act established Australian citizenship for people who met eligibility requirements. Note: Menzies returns to power as leader of the new Liberal Party Menzies Government. |
| Birth of a grandson #1 | 9 December 1950 (Age 60)
grandson -
Peter William Forbes
|
| Australian History | 1950 (Age 59) Note: 1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea. Note: Voters reject a referendum to change the Constitution to allow the Menzies Government to ban the Communist Party |
| Australian History | 1951 (Age 60) Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand |
| Australian History | 1952 (Age 61) Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia. |
| Death of a brother | 23 September 1954 (Age 64)
elder brother -
John Carr Potts
|
| Burial of a brother | September 1954 (Age 64) Healesville, Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
John Carr Potts
|
| Australian History | 1954 (Age 63) Note: Elizabeth II and Prince Philip make a royal visit; the Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects, leading to the Petrov Affair and another split in the Labor Party |
| Australian History | 1955 (Age 64) Note: Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement Note: Australia becomes involved in Malayan Insurgence Note: Hotels in New South Wales no longer have to close at 6 p.m., ending the 'six o'clock swill' |
| Australian History | 1956 (Age 65) Note: Television in Australia is launched. Note: Melbourne holds the Olympics Note: performing artist Barry Humphries introduces Edna Everage to the Australian stage |
| Death of a brother | 21 August 1957 (Age 67) Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Charles Ernest Herbert "Charlie" Potts B.A.
|
| Burial of a brother | August 1957 (Age 67) Box Hill, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Charles Ernest Herbert "Charlie" Potts B.A.
|
| Australian History | 1957 (Age 66) Note: The song 'Wild One' makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts. Note: Slim Dusty's Australian country music hit Pub With No Beer becomes the first Australian song to attain international chart success. |
| Death | 26 January 1959 (Age 69) Auburn, Victoria, Australia |
| Burial | January 1959 (Age 68) |
| Religion | Salvation Army |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Birth 26 January 1862 37 27 Yackandandah, Victoria, Australia Death 10 August 1948 (Age 86) Box Hill, Victoria, Australia |
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-4 years mother |
Birth 12 April 1858 43 41 Frankston, Victoria, Australia Death 20 May 1933 (Age 75) Healesville, Victoria, Australia |
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Marriage: 13 November 1883 — Frankston, Victoria, Australia |
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|
-7 years #1 elder brother |
Herbert Henry "Bert" Thomas
Birth 1877 Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia Death 4 February 1945 (Age 68) Brighton East, Victoria, Australia |
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4 years #2 elder sister |
Florence Margaret "Pearl" Thomas
Birth 1881 Victoria, Australia Death yes |
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3 years #3 elder sister |
Birth 8 June 1884 22 26 Frankston, Victoria, Australia Death 5 May 1960 (Age 75) Surry Hills, Victoria, Australia |
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2 years #4 elder brother |
Birth 15 July 1886 24 28 Frankston, Victoria, Australia Death 1969 (Age 82) Healesville, Victoria, Australia |
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21 months #5 elder brother |
Birth 7 April 1888 26 29 Frankston, Victoria, Australia Death 23 September 1954 (Age 66) |
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21 months #6 himself |
Birth 17 January 1890 27 31 Frankston, Victoria, Australia Death 26 January 1959 (Age 69) Auburn, Victoria, Australia |
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21 months #7 younger brother |
Birth 26 October 1891 29 33 Frankston, Victoria, Australia Death 16 February 1960 (Age 68) Healesville, Victoria, Australia |
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19 months #8 younger brother |
Birth 27 May 1893 31 35 Frankston, Victoria, Australia Death 27 May 1974 (Age 81) |
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3 years #9 younger brother |
Birth 21 June 1896 34 38 Healesville, Victoria, Australia Death 21 August 1957 (Age 61) Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia |
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20 months #10 younger sister |
Birth 12 February 1898 36 39 Healesville, Victoria, Australia Death 15 March 1928 (Age 30) Healesville, Victoria, Australia |
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17 months #11 younger brother |
Birth 4 July 1899 37 41 Healesville, Victoria, Australia Death 4 August 1995 (Age 96) |
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6 years #12 younger brother |
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| Family with Evelyn Maude Langley - View family |
| himself |
Birth 17 January 1890 27 31 Frankston, Victoria, Australia Death 26 January 1959 (Age 69) Auburn, Victoria, Australia |
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19 months wife |
Evelyn Maude Langley
Birth 29 August 1891 Death 4 June 1923 (Age 31) |
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Marriage: 17 July 1915 — Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia |
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21 months #1 son |
Leonard Potts
Birth 17 April 1917 27 25 Victoria, Australia Death 18 February 1924 (Age 6) Victoria, Australia |
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3 years #2 son |
Birth 6 April 1920 30 28 Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia Death 6 July 1944 (Age 24) Maryborough, Queensland, Australia |
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3 years #3 daughter |
Birth 3 June 1923 33 31 Victoria, Australia Death 22 September 2022 (Age 99) Myrtleford, Victoria, Australia |
| Family with Violet Marquerite Kirk - View family |
| himself |
Birth 17 January 1890 27 31 Frankston, Victoria, Australia Death 26 January 1959 (Age 69) Auburn, Victoria, Australia |
|
13 years wife |
Violet Marquerite Kirk
Birth 1 October 1902 Sea Lake, Victoria, Australia Death yes |
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Marriage: 2 November 1926 — Sea Lake, Victoria, Australia |
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16 months #1 son |
Dr. James Kenneth George Potts
Birth 17 February 1928 38 25 Death 15 February 1991 (Age 62) |
James Abraham Garfield "Jim" Potts has 11 first cousins recorded
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| Australian History | The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | A National Australasian Convention meets, agrees on adopting the name 'the Commonwealth of Australia' and drafting a constitution. |
| Australian History | Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Residence | According to JJ Potts this is the date the family moved from Frankston to Healesville. |
| Australian History | The Corowa Conference (the 'people's convention') calls on the colonial parliaments to pass enabling acts, allowing the election of delegates to a new constitutional convention aimed at drafting a proposal and putting it to a referendum in each colony. |
| Australian History | South Australia becomes the first Australian colony, and the second place in the world, to grant women the right to vote, as well the first Parliament in the world to allow women to stand for office. |
| Australian History | The premiers, except for those of Queensland and Western Australia, agree to implement the Corowa proposals. |
| Australian History | The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | In two sessions, the Second National Australasian Convention meets (with representatives from all colonies except Queensland present). They agree to adopt a constitution based on the 1891 draft, and then revise and amend it later that year. |
| Australian History | The Convention agrees on a final draft to be put to the people. |
| Australian History | The decision is made to site the national capital in New South Wales, but not within 100 miles of Sydney. |
| Australian History | Several delegates visit London to resist proposed changes to the agreed-upon constitution. |
| Australian History | (01 Jan) Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General |
| Australian History | The Franchise Act guarantees women the right to vote in federal elections (by this stage, most states had already done this). However, it excludes most non-European ethnic groups, including Aboriginal people, unless already registered to vote on State roles. |
| Australian History | The High Court of Australia is established with Samuel Griffith as the first Chief Justice. |
| Australian History | A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital |
| Australian History | Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country |
| Australian History | The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | The Royal Australian Navy is founded |
| Australian History | Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time |
| Australian History | Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains. |
| Australian History | The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | Australian soldiers are sent to the First World War. This was first time Australians had fought under the Australian flag, as opposed to that of Britain's. |
| Australian History | (25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April. |
| Australian History | Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill' |
| Australian History | Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed. |
| Australian History | (08 AUG) Battle of Amiens |
| Residence | Plasterer |
| Australian History | Prime Minister Billy Hughes signs Treaty of Versailles: the first signing of an international treaty by Australia. Australia obtains League of Nations mandate over German New Guinea. |
| Australian History | The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built. |
| Australian History | Western Australia celebrates its centenary |
| Australian History | Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings |
| Australian History | Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens |
| Australian History | Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Australian History | The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government |
| Australian History | A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin |
| Australian History | 3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa. |
| Australian History | Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese |
| Australian History | Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary. |
| Australian History | Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW. |
| Australian History | the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader. |
| Australian History | Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme |
| Australian History | Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly. |
| Australian History | Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins |
| Australian History | 1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea. |
| Australian History | Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand |
| Australian History | First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia. |
| Australian History | Elizabeth II and Prince Philip make a royal visit; the Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects, leading to the Petrov Affair and another split in the Labor Party |
| Australian History | Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement |
| Australian History | Television in Australia is launched. |
| Australian History | The song 'Wild One' makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts. |
James Abraham Garfield Potts
JAMES ABRAHAM GARFIELD POTTS, fourth child and third son.
After leaving school, Jim interested himself in cutting wood on the property, and doing odd jobs around the district. He found permanent employment with Josiah Baker, who had a farm facing both the Don Road and Sanctuary Road. Mr. Baker was a master plasterer, and one of the largest contractors in Melbourne. He used to catch the 7 a.m. train from Healesville and return from the city the same day, arriving at Healesville at 7 p.m. He always wore a "swallow tail" coat, stiff white shirt and collar and a "boxer" hat. Mr. Baker took a special interest in Jim and apprenticed him to the plastering trade. With a willingness to work and showing an aptitude for the trade, Jim was soon a high class tradesman. When Mr. Baker retired, he worked for other firms.
Having a sound business acumen, he eventually set himself up as a master plasterer and was greatly in demand for the excellent type of work he produced. After World War I, he took William in as a partner. The firm of Potts Brothers became widely known and they continued to prosper until William retired to live at "Glenviolet."
Jim carried on the business until the time of his death. He acquired several houses during his business career. He lost his first wife when she was 31 years of age. There were three children: Leonard who died at 7 years of age. Betty grew and married and at present lives at Noojee. Albert was killed in action - Albert was to have joined his father as plasterer.
Jim married again taking a lovely lady (Violet Kirk) as his second wife. Their one child, Ken, is a surgeon and doctor.
Jim was most generous to his parents, especially during the war years, when he looked after their interests and cared for them.
He was a life member of the Hawthorn City Band and an original member and Eb bass player.
He held Grand Lodge honours In the Chapter Masonic Lodge.
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