Mary Ellinor MadillAge: 961860–1957
- Name
- Mary Ellinor Madill
- Given names
- Mary Ellinor
- Surname
- Madill
| Birth | 11 August 1860 30 30 Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland |
| Australian History | 1860 Note: John McDouall Stuart reaches the centre of the continent. South Australian border changed from 132 degrees E to 129 degrees E. |
| Australian History | 1861 (Age 4 months) Note: The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs. Note: skiing in Australia introduced by Norwegians in the Snowy Mountains goldrush town of Kiandra |
| Australian History | 1862 (Age 16 months) Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E. |
| Australian History | 1863 (Age 2) Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales. |
| Immigration | 1865 (Age 4) Australia Note: 1852 living in Mullaghboy, Parrish Currin, County Monaghan. Arrived in Victoria, Australia 1865/6 with parents, Mary Ann, Ann Jane 12, David 10, Mary Ellenor 5, maybe others? |
| Australian History | 1867 (Age 6) Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. |
| Australian History | 1868 (Age 7) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
| Death of a sister | before 1869 (Age 8)
elder sister -
Eliza Madill
|
| Death of a sister | before 1869 (Age 8)
elder sister -
Elizabeth Madill
|
| Death of a sister | before 1869 (Age 8)
elder sister -
Letitia Madill
|
| Birth of a sister | 3 January 1869 (Age 8) Clunes, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Margaret Ann Madill
|
| Australian History | 1869 (Age 8) Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | 12 April 1870 (Age 9) Talbot Road, Clunes, Victoria, Australia
maternal grandmother -
Ann Mills
|
| Australian History | 1872 (Age 11) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Marriage of a sister | Ann Jane Madill - View family 1873 (Age 12) Colac, Victoria, Australia
brother-in-law -
John Sherry
elder sister -
Ann Jane Madill
|
| Australian History | 1873 (Age 12) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Letter | Letter 21 January 1875 (Age 14) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia Letter from Matthew Madill to Margaret Tailor Note: Note that the photo in this article is of David Madill, Matthew's son even though it states Matthew Madill.
Note:
Letters open up whole new world
A letter from Matthew Madill to his orphan niece Margret Tailor in Drumsoad, Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland, April 16, 1874.
Your aunt and cousins had a letter wrote about six months ago. I would not let them seal it because they were encouraging you to come out and that was what I did not like because I had not a way that time to keep you from the strangers, but thanks be to God, it is not so now for I have selected 160 acres of land.
I have one year’s rent paid on it and has got my licence. I am not labouring it nor won’t til November. The rent is only 2shillings an acre and in 10 years I have it free, so thanks be to God it won’t be so bad with you as it is at present if the Lords spares me, for dear Margaret, I am going to send you £2 now and Ann Jane’s husband, Mr John Sherry, is going to send you £1. If you be a wise good girl and stop single. The ‘assistant emigration” is stopped for a time; we expect it will commence again. Make up your mind and send me word if you will come out to this country and I will pay your passage.
Note:
His daughter Mary Ellen Madill also wrote to her cousin Margaret on January 21, 1875.
Dear cousin Margaret, I think long to see you out here till you and I take a horse each and a kangaroo’s dog and then go a hunt after the kangaroos and emus. The girls here does no outside work. It is all housework. If you were in this country you would never see porridge anymore. In this country you would have to learn to ride for you cannot go to your next neighbour without riding, it is so far. When I go out I always ride on horseback. If you were here you could not sleep in the morning for laughing jackasses and cockatoos and parrots and curlews and native companions and a lot of other birds. Father shot some emus and it took three men to lift it into the cart. The old man kangaroo is much about the same weight ... I wish you were out here cousin Margaret. We would have such fun. We have our house build in about 10 acres of pine trees. They are about eight foot high. We have about 100 large trees father is going to cut down and get sawed for building purposes. |
| Australian History | 1875 (Age 14) Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives. Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed. |
| Marriage of a brother | David Madill - View family 1877 (Age 16) Clunes, Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
David Madill
sister-in-law -
Adelaide Annie Briggs
|
| Australian History | 1878 (Age 17) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Death of a maternal grandfather | 17 February 1879 (Age 18) Undera, Victoria, Australia
maternal grandfather -
David Hall
|
| Australian History | 1879 (Age 18) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 19) Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work. |
| Marriage | James Alfred Bilson - View family 1881 (Age 20) |
| Marriage of a brother | David Madill - View family about 1881 (Age 20)
elder brother -
David Madill
sister-in-law -
Mary Ellen Ryan
|
| Birth of a son #1 | 1882 (Age 21) Undera, Victoria, Australia
son -
Walter Frankling Bilson
|
| Australian History | 1882 (Age 21) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 22) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Birth of a son #2 | 1884 (Age 23) Undera, Victoria, Australia
son -
Reginald Madill Bilson
|
| Birth of a daughter #3 | 1886 (Age 25) Undera, Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Ellen May Bilson
|
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 26) 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 son #4 | 1888 (Age 27) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
son -
David Leslie Bilson
|
| Marriage of a sister | Margaret Ann Madill - View family 1889 (Age 28) Victoria, Australia
brother-in-law -
James Henry Ryan
younger sister -
Margaret Ann Madill
|
| Australian History | 1889 (Age 28) Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration. |
| Birth of a son #5 | 1890 (Age 29) Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia
son -
Alfred Osland Bilson
|
| Australian History | 1890 (Age 29) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 30) 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 |
| Australian History | 1892 (Age 31) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Birth of a son #6 | 1893 (Age 32) Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia
son -
James Arthur Bilson
|
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 32) 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. |
| Death of a son | 1894 (Age 33) Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia
son -
Walter Frankling Bilson
|
| Death of a son | 1894 (Age 33) Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia
son -
James Arthur Bilson
|
| Australian History | 1894 (Age 33) 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. |
| Birth of a daughter #7 | 1895 (Age 34) Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Adelaide Elizabeth Bilson
|
| Australian History | 1895 (Age 34) 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 35) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 36) 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. |
| Marriage of a brother | David Madill - View family 1898 (Age 37) 66 Herbet Street, Albert Park, Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
David Madill
sister-in-law -
Abina Maude Lynas
|
| Australian History | 1898 (Age 37) 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. |
| Australian History | 1899 (Age 38) 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. |
| Birth of a daughter #8 | 1900 (Age 39) Barwon, Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Irene Mary Bilson
|
| Australian History | 1900 (Age 39) 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 |
| Death of a mother | 11 September 1901 (Age 41) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
mother -
Mary Ann Hall
|
| Australian History | 1901 (Age 40) 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 41) 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 42) 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 43) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government |
| Australian History | 1906 (Age 45) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Death of a father | 21 January 1908 (Age 47) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
father -
Matthew Madill
|
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 47) 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 48) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 49) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 50) 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 51) 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 |
| Birth of a granddaughter #1 | 1913 (Age 52)
granddaughter -
Phyllis Edna Bilson
|
| Australian History | 1913 (Age 52) 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 52) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 53) 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 54) 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 |
| Australian History | 1916 (Age 55) 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 56) 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. |
| Marriage of a son | Reginald Madill Bilson - View family 1918 (Age 57) Victoria, Australia
son -
Reginald Madill Bilson
daughter-in-law -
Effie Lavenia Jenkins
|
| Australian History | 1918 (Age 57) 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 58) 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 grandson #2 | 1920 (Age 59) Terang, Victoria, Australia
grandson -
Alfred James Leonard Bilson
|
| Australian History | 1920 (Age 59) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 60) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 61) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 62) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 65) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Death of a sister | 15 July 1927 (Age 66) Footscray, Victoria, Australia
elder sister -
Ann Jane Madill
|
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 66) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 67) 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 68) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 69) 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 70) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 71) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Death of a husband | 1933 (Age 72) Hawthorn East, Victoria, Australia
husband -
James Alfred Bilson
|
| Death of a brother | 10 March 1933 (Age 72) Undera North, Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
David Madill
|
| Australian History | 1933 (Age 72) 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 75) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | 1937 (Age 76) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 77) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 78) 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 79) 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 grandson | 1941 (Age 80) Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
grandson -
Alfred James Leonard Bilson
|
| Australian History | 1941 (Age 80) 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 81) 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 82) 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 grandson | 1944 (Age 83)
grandson -
James Kennedy
|
| Australian History | 1944 (Age 83) 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 |
| Australian History | 1945 (Age 84) 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 85) 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 87) 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 88) 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. |
| Australian History | 1950 (Age 89) 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 90) Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand |
| Death of a sister | May 1952 (Age 91) Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
younger sister -
Margaret Ann Madill
|
| Australian History | 1952 (Age 91) Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1954 (Age 93) 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 94) 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 95) 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 (on the date of death) 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 | 1957 (Age 96) Huntly, Victoria, Australia Cause of death: Senility |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Birth 1830 Monaghan, Ireland Death 21 January 1908 (Age 78) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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2 months mother |
Birth 28 February 1830 20 26 Killeaven, Monaghan, Monaghan, Ulster, Ireland Death 11 September 1901 (Age 71) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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Marriage: 5 February 1852 — Clones, Monaghan, Ireland |
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6 years #1 elder sister |
Eliza Madill
Birth 20 June 1858 28 28 Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland Death before 1869 (Age 10) |
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-5 years #2 elder sister |
Ann Jane Madill
Birth 11 March 1853 23 23 Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland Death 15 July 1927 (Age 74) Footscray, Victoria, Australia |
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2 years #3 elder brother |
Birth 22 July 1855 25 25 Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland Death 10 March 1933 (Age 77) Age: 77 Undera North, Victoria, Australia |
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3 years #4 elder sister |
Elizabeth Madill
Birth 20 June 1858 28 28 Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland Death before 1869 (Age 10) |
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1 year #5 elder sister |
Letitia Madill
Birth 1 July 1859 29 29 Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland Death before 1869 (Age 9) |
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13 months #6 herself |
Mary Ellinor Madill
Birth 11 August 1860 30 30 Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland Death 1957 (Age 96) Huntly, Victoria, Australia |
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8 years #7 younger sister |
Birth 3 January 1869 39 38 Clunes, Victoria, Australia Death May 1952 (Age 83) Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia |
| Family with James Alfred Bilson - View family |
| husband |
James Alfred Bilson
Birth 1854 Death 1933 (Age 79) Hawthorn East, Victoria, Australia |
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7 years herself |
Mary Ellinor Madill
Birth 11 August 1860 30 30 Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland Death 1957 (Age 96) Huntly, Victoria, Australia |
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Marriage: 1881 |
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1 year #1 son |
Walter Frankling Bilson
Birth 1882 28 21 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 1894 (Age 12) Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia |
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2 years #2 son |
Reginald Madill Bilson
Birth 1884 30 23 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 1967 (Age 83) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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2 years #3 daughter |
Ellen May Bilson
Birth 1886 32 25 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death yes |
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2 years #4 son |
David Leslie Bilson
Birth 1888 34 27 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Death yes |
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2 years #5 son |
Alfred Osland Bilson
Birth 1890 36 29 Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia Death 1968 (Age 78) Prahran, Victoria, Australia |
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3 years #6 son |
James Arthur Bilson
Birth 1893 39 32 Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia Death 1894 (Age 12 months) Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia |
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2 years #7 daughter |
Adelaide Elizabeth Bilson
Birth 1895 41 34 Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia Death yes |
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5 years #8 daughter |
Irene Mary Bilson
Birth 1900 46 39 Barwon, Victoria, Australia Death yes |
Mary Ellinor Madill has 29 first cousins recorded
Father's family (0)
Mother's family (29)
Parents John Hall + Mary Corbett
Parents Alexander Nelson + Letitia Hall
Parents William Myott + Letitia Hall
Parents David Hall + Elizabeth Ann Scott
| Australian History | John McDouall Stuart reaches the centre of the continent. South Australian border changed from 132 degrees E to 129 degrees E. |
| Australian History | The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs. |
| Australian History | Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E. |
| Australian History | South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales. |
| Immigration | 1852 living in Mullaghboy, Parrish Currin, County Monaghan. Arrived in Victoria, Australia 1865/6 with parents, Mary Ann, Ann Jane 12, David 10, Mary Ellenor 5, maybe others? |
| Australian History | Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. |
| Australian History | The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
| Australian History | Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. |
| Australian History | Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Australian History | Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Australian History | SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives. |
| Australian History | First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. |
| Australian History | First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway |
| Australian History | 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. |
| Australian History | The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
Letter from Matthew Madill to his orphan niece Margret Tailor in Drumsoad, Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland, April 16, 1874.
Your aunt and cousins had a letter wrote about six months ago. I would not let them seal it because they were encouraging you to come out and that was what I did not like because I had not a way that time to keep you from the strangers, but thanks be to God, it is not so now for I have selected 160 acres of land. I have one year’s rent paid on it and has got my licence. I am not labouring it nor won’t til November. The rent is only 2shillings an acre and in 10 years I have it free, so thanks be to God it won’t be so bad with you as it is at present if the Lords spares me, for dear Margaret, I am going to send you £2 now and Ann Jane’s husband, Mr John Sherry, is going to send you £1. If you be a wise good girl and stop single. The ‘assistant emigration” is stopped for a time; we expect it will commence again. Make up your mind and send me word if you will come out to this country and I will pay your passage.
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His daughter Mary Ellen Madill also wrote to her cousin Margaret on January 21, 1875. Dear cousin Margaret, I think long to see you out here till you and I take a horse each and a kangaroo’s dog and then go a hunt after the kangaroos and emus. The girls here does no outside work. It is all housework. If you were in this country you would never see porridge anymore. In this country you would have to learn to ride for you cannot go to your next neighbour without riding, it is so far. When I go out I always ride on horseback. If you were here you could not sleep in the morning for laughing jackasses and cockatoos and parrots and curlews and native companions and a lot of other birds. Father shot some emus and it took three men to lift it into the cart. The old man kangaroo is much about the same weight ... I wish you were out here cousin Margaret. We would have such fun. We have our house build in about 10 acres of pine trees. They are about eight foot high. We have about 100 large trees father is going to cut down and get sawed for building purposes.
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