Naomi Eliza StewartAge: 751890–1966
- Name
- Naomi Eliza Stewart
- Given names
- Naomi Eliza
- Surname
- Stewart
| Birth | 29 November 1890 37 34 Tatura, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1890 Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | 4 November 1891 (Age 11 months) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
paternal grandfather -
Alexander Stewart
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| Australian History | 1891 (Age 33 days) 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 17 months) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Thomas Campbell "Tom" Stewart
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| Australian History | 1892 (Age 13 months) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Birth of a brother | 26 December 1893 (Age 3) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Lindsay Ivie Stewart
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| 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 |
| Australian History | 1896 (Age 5) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Birth of a sister | 27 October 1897 (Age 6) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Florence "Floss" Stewart
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| 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. |
| 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 | 27 February 1899 (Age 8) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Charles Rodney Stewart
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| 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. |
| Death of a paternal grandmother | 22 November 1900 (Age 9) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
paternal grandmother -
Georgina Rowan
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| 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 |
| Family Photo | Family Photo about 1901 (Age 10)Stewart Ivie and Sarah and family about 1901 Note: (need to confirm a date) |
| 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 |
| Death of a maternal grandfather | 1902 (Age 11) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
maternal grandfather -
John Lupton
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Marriage | John Fairbairn Dunolp - View family 17 August 1906 (Age 15) Tatura, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1906 (Age 15) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Death of a mother | 18 August 1907 (Age 16) 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 16) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
brother-in-law -
Robert Gregg "Bob" Starritt
elder sister -
Emma Tomina "Sis" Stewart
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| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | 1916 (Age 25) Essendon, Victoria, Australia
maternal grandmother -
Jane Laing
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| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Australian History | 1920 (Age 29) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Birth of a daughter #1 | 4 May 1921 (Age 30) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Eileen Dunolp
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| 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 |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 32) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Birth of a son #2 | 1925 (Age 34)
son -
Raymond Stewart Dunolp
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| Australian History | 1926 (Age 35) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 36) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| 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. |
| Marriage of a sister | Florence "Floss" Stewart - View family 1930 (estimated) (Age 39)
brother-in-law -
Charles Edwin Mc Donald
younger sister -
Florence "Floss" Stewart
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Australian History | 1936 (Age 45) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Death of a father | 6 October 1937 (Age 46) Mooroopna Base Hospital, Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
father -
Ivie Stewart
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| Australian History | 1937 (Age 46) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Death of a brother | 16 May 1938 (Age 47)
younger brother -
Charles Rodney Stewart
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| 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. |
| Death of a sister | 14 February 1941 (Age 50) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
elder sister -
Elizabeth Ivena Stewart
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| 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. |
| Death of a husband | 26 April 1943 (Age 52) Mooroopna Base Hospital, Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
husband -
John Fairbairn Dunolp
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| Burial of a husband | 27 April 1943 (Age 52) Tatura Cemetery, Tatura, Victoria, Australia
husband -
John Fairbairn Dunolp
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| 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. |
| 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 | 26 August 1945 (Age 54) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Lindsay Ivie Stewart
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Death of a sister | 4 January 1950 (Age 59) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
elder sister -
Emma Tomina "Sis" Stewart
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| 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 |
| Death of a daughter | about 1951 (Age 60)
daughter -
Eileen Dunolp
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| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 of a sister | 7 September 1960 (Age 69) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
elder sister -
Mary Jane Hickox "Jeannie" Stewart
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| Death of a brother | 21 July 1962 (Age 71) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
Alexander John "Jack" Stewart
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| Death of a brother | 23 October 1962 (Age 71) Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
Andrew James Stewart
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| Australian History | 1962 (Age 71) Note: Robert Menzies' Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that all Indigenous Australians should have the right to enrol and vote at federal elections, removing remaining restrictions applying in QLD, WA and NT. Note: Malayan Insurgence ends |
| Australian History | 1964 (Age 73) Note: The Beatles tour Australia; Note: 82 sailors die when HMAS Voyager sinks after being rammed by HMAS Melbourne; Note: The editors of Oz magazine are charged with obscenity; Note: PM Robert Menzies announces the reintroduction of compulsory military service for men aged from 18-25 years old; Note: First troops sent to Vietnam War. |
| Australian History | 1965 (Age 74) Note: Indigenous Australians gain right to vote in state of Queensland |
| Australian History | 1966 (Age 75) Note: The ban on the employment of married women in the Commonwealth Public Service is lifted; Note: Menzies retires as Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister and is succeeded by Harold Holt. |
| Australian History | 14 February 1966 (Age 75) Note: Decimalisation; on 14 February the Australian currency is changed to dollars and cents, with the Australian Dollar replacing the Australian pound. |
| Death | 4 June 1966 (Age 75) Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia |
| Burial | 7 June 1966 (3 days after death) Tatura, Victoria, Australia |
| 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 elder sister |
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 elder 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 herself |
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) |
| Family with John Fairbairn Dunolp - View family |
| husband |
John Fairbairn Dunolp
Birth 13 June 1881 Tatura, Victoria, Australia Death 26 April 1943 (Age 61) Mooroopna Base Hospital, Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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10 years herself |
Birth 29 November 1890 37 34 Tatura, Victoria, Australia Death 4 June 1966 (Age 75) Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia |
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Marriage: 17 August 1906 — Tatura, Victoria, Australia |
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18 years #1 son |
Raymond Stewart Dunolp
Birth 1925 43 34 Death September 1989 (Age 64) Victoria, Australia |
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-4 years #2 daughter |
Eileen Dunolp
Birth 4 May 1921 39 30 Tatura, Victoria, Australia Death about 1951 (Age 29) |
Naomi Eliza Stewart has 18 first cousins recorded
Father's family (18)
Parents Andrew David Barron + Tomina Stewart
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Parents James Stewart + Margaret Ann Cobbledick
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