Elizabeth Ivena StewartAge: 531887–1941
- Name
- Elizabeth Ivena Stewart
- Given names
- Elizabeth Ivena
- Surname
- Stewart
| Birth | 9 December 1887 34 31 Tatura, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1887 Note: An Australian cricket team is established, defeating England in the first Ashes series. First direct Inter-colonial passenger trains begin running between Adelaide and Melbourne. |
| Birth of a brother | 26 February 1889 (Age 14 months) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Andrew James Stewart
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| Australian History | 1889 (Age 12 months) Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration. |
| Birth of a sister | 29 November 1890 (Age 2) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Naomi Eliza Stewart
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| Australian History | 1890 (Age 2) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | 4 November 1891 (Age 3) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
paternal grandfather -
Alexander Stewart
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| Australian History | 1891 (Age 3) 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 |
| Birth of a brother | 20 May 1892 (Age 4) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Thomas Campbell "Tom" Stewart
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| Australian History | 1892 (Age 4) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Birth of a brother | 26 December 1893 (Age 6) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Lindsay Ivie Stewart
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| Australian History | 1893 (Age 5) 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 6) 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 7) 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 |
| Australian History | 1896 (Age 8) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Birth of a sister | 27 October 1897 (Age 9) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Florence "Floss" Stewart
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| Australian History | 1897 (Age 9) 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. |
| Australian History | 1898 (Age 10) 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 | 27 February 1899 (Age 11) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Charles Rodney Stewart
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| Australian History | 1899 (Age 11) 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. |
| Death of a paternal grandmother | 22 November 1900 (Age 12) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
paternal grandmother -
Georgina Rowan
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| Australian History | 1900 (Age 12) 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 |
| Family Photo | Family Photo about 1901 (Age 13)Stewart Ivie and Sarah and family about 1901 Note: (need to confirm a date) |
| Australian History | 1901 (Age 13) 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 |
| Death of a maternal grandfather | 1902 (Age 14) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
maternal grandfather -
John Lupton
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| Australian History | 1902 (Age 14) 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 15) 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 |
| Australian History | 1904 (Age 16) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government |
| Marriage of a sister | Naomi Eliza Stewart - View family 17 August 1906 (Age 18) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
brother-in-law -
John Fairbairn Dunolp
younger sister -
Naomi Eliza Stewart
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| Australian History | 1906 (Age 18) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Death of a mother | 18 August 1907 (Age 19) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
mother -
Sarah Ann Lupton
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| Marriage of a sister | Emma Tomina "Sis" Stewart - View family 30 October 1907 (Age 19) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
brother-in-law -
Robert Gregg "Bob" Starritt
elder sister -
Emma Tomina "Sis" Stewart
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| Australian History | 1908 (Age 20) 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 21) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 22) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 23) 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 24) 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 25) 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 25) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 26) 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. |
| Australian History | 1915 (Age 27) 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 |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | 1916 (Age 28) Essendon, Victoria, Australia
maternal grandmother -
Jane Laing
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| Australian History | 1916 (Age 28) 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 |
| Australian History | 1917 (Age 29) 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 30) 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. |
| Australian History | 1919 (Age 31) 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. |
| Australian History | 1920 (Age 32) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 33) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 34) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 35) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 38) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 39) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 40) 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 41) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Marriage of a sister | Florence "Floss" Stewart - View family 1930 (estimated) (Age 42)
brother-in-law -
Charles Edwin Mc Donald
younger sister -
Florence "Floss" Stewart
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| Australian History | 1930 (Age 42) Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup |
| Australian History | 1931 (Age 43) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 44) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1933 (Age 45) Note: 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 | 1936 (Age 48) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Death of a father | 6 October 1937 (Age 49) Mooroopna Base Hospital, Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
father -
Ivie Stewart
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| Australian History | 1937 (Age 49) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Death of a brother | 16 May 1938 (Age 50)
younger brother -
Charles Rodney Stewart
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| Australian History | 1938 (Age 50) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 51) 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 52) 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 53) 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. |
| Death | 14 February 1941 (Age 53) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Ivie, Sarah Ann, Charles Rodney, Elizabeth Ivena, and Ivie Lindsay Stewart grave 1941 'Family Notices.', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956), 15 February, p. 4, viewed 2 December, 2011, |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Birth 1853 50 32 Mochrum, Wigtown, Scotland Death 6 October 1937 (Age 84) Mooroopna Base Hospital, Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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4 years mother |
Birth 31 October 1856 34 22 Geelong, Victoria, Australia Death 18 August 1907 (Age 50) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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Marriage: 14 November 1878 — Tatura, Victoria, Australia |
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14 months #1 elder sister |
Birth 17 January 1880 27 23 Death 7 September 1960 (Age 80) Tatura, Victoria, Australia |
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14 months #2 elder sister |
Birth 10 March 1881 28 24 North West Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Death 4 January 1950 (Age 68) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia |
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22 months #3 elder sister |
Birth 19 January 1883 30 26 Tatura, Victoria, Australia Death December 1972 (Age 89) Staincross, Yorkshire West Riding, England |
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19 months #4 elder brother |
Birth 5 August 1884 31 27 Tatura, Victoria, Australia Death 12 December 1969 (Age 85) Noor, Victoria, Australia |
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20 months #5 elder brother |
Birth 14 April 1886 33 29 Tatura, Victoria, Australia Death 21 July 1962 (Age 76) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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20 months #6 herself |
Birth 9 December 1887 34 31 Tatura, Victoria, Australia Death 14 February 1941 (Age 53) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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15 months #7 younger brother |
Birth 26 February 1889 36 32 Tatura, Victoria, Australia Death 23 October 1962 (Age 73) Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia |
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21 months #8 younger sister |
Birth 29 November 1890 37 34 Tatura, Victoria, Australia Death 4 June 1966 (Age 75) Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia |
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18 months #9 younger brother |
Birth 20 May 1892 39 35 Tatura, Victoria, Australia Death 1970 (Age 77) Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia |
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19 months #10 younger brother |
Birth 26 December 1893 40 37 Tatura, Victoria, Australia Death 26 August 1945 (Age 51) Tatura, Victoria, Australia |
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4 years #11 younger sister |
Birth 27 October 1897 44 40 Tatura, Victoria, Australia Death 21 September 1987 (Age 89) Tatura, Victoria, Australia |
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16 months #12 younger brother |
Birth 27 February 1899 46 42 Tatura, Victoria, Australia Death 16 May 1938 (Age 39) |
Elizabeth Ivena Stewart has 18 first cousins recorded
Father's family (18)
Parents Andrew David Barron + Tomina Stewart
Parents Andrew Robert Stewart + Mary Ann …
Parents James Stewart + Margaret Ann Cobbledick
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