Catherine Matilda "Cassie" StarrittAge: 731885–1958
- Name
- Catherine Matilda "Cassie" Starritt
- Given names
- Catherine Matilda
- Nickname
- Cassie
- Surname
- Starritt
| Birth | 1885 42 40 Australia |
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 2) 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. |
| Australian History | 1889 (Age 4) Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration. |
| Australian History | 1890 (Age 5) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 6) 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 7) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 8) 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 9) 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. |
| Marriage of a sister | Margaret Jane Starritt - View family 1895 (estimated) (Age 10)
brother-in-law -
George Gordon
elder sister -
Margaret Jane Starritt
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| Australian History | 1895 (Age 10) 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 11) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 12) 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 13) 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 14) 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 15) 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 |
| Marriage of a sister | Sarah Ann Starritt - View family 10 October 1901 (Age 16)
brother-in-law -
Richard Harry Thomas
elder sister -
Sarah Ann Starritt
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| Australian History | 1901 (Age 16) 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 17) 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 |
| Marriage of a sister | Ellenor Mary Starritt - View family 1903 (Age 18)
brother-in-law -
James Buchanan Rankin Sr.
elder sister -
Ellenor Mary Starritt
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| Australian History | 1903 (Age 18) 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 19) 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 21) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Marriage of a brother | Robert Gregg "Bob" Starritt - View family 30 October 1907 (Age 22) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
Robert Gregg "Bob" Starritt
sister-in-law -
Emma Tomina "Sis" Stewart
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| Australian History | 1908 (Age 23) 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 24) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Death of a sister | 24 July 1910 (Age 25)
elder sister -
Margaret Jane Starritt
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| Australian History | 1910 (Age 25) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 26) 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. |
| Marriage of a brother | George Starritt OBE - View family 9 October 1912 (Age 27) Australia
elder brother -
George Starritt OBE
sister-in-law -
Amanda Rathjen
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| Photo | Wedding 9 October 1912 (Age 27)George and Amanda's wedding party |
| Australian History | 1912 (Age 27) 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 28) 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 28) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 29) 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. |
| Birth of a son #1 | 1915 (Age 30) Australia |
| Australian History | 1915 (Age 30) 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 31) 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 #2 | 1917 (Age 32) Australia
son -
George Starritt Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1917 (Age 32) 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. |
| Birth of a daughter #3 | 1918 (Age 33) Australia
daughter -
Nancy Catherine Rathjen
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| Death of a son | 1918 (Age 33) Australia
son -
George Starritt Rathjen
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| Death of a mother | 25 August 1918 (Age 33) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
mother -
Catherine Gregg
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| Australian History | 1918 (Age 33) 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 34) 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 daughter #4 | 1920 (Age 35) Australia
daughter -
Una Othinda Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1920 (Age 35) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Death of a father | 22 January 1921 (Age 36) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
father -
Robert Starritt
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| Australian History | 1921 (Age 36) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 37) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 38) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Birth of a son #5 | 1926 (Age 41) Australia
son -
Finlay Starritt Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1926 (Age 41) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 42) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 43) 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 44) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 45) 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 46) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 47) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Death of a brother | 7 April 1933 (Age 48) Australia
elder brother -
Robert Gregg "Bob" Starritt
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| Australian History | 1933 (Age 48) 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 51) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | 1937 (Age 52) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 53) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 54) 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 55) 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 56) 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 57) 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 58) 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 59) 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 sister | 16 August 1945 (Age 60)
elder sister -
Sarah Ann Starritt
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| Australian History | 1945 (Age 60) 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 61) 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 63) 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. |
| Birth of a grandson #1 | 24 May 1949 (Age 64) Australia
grandson -
Gregory Hayes
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| Death of a grandson | 16 July 1949 (Age 64) Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
grandson -
Gregory Hayes
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| Australian History | 1949 (Age 64) 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 65) 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 66) Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand |
| Australian History | 1952 (Age 67) Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1954 (Age 69) 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 70) 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 71) 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 72) 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 | 4 March 1958 (Age 73) Australia |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Birth 1843 33 Gortnalabin, Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland Death 22 January 1921 (Age 78) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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2 years mother |
Birth 1845 35 Moneylagan, Donegal, Ireland Death 25 August 1918 (Age 73) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia |
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Marriage: 2 August 1870 — Creswick, Victoria, Australia |
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13 months #1 elder sister |
Birth 20 August 1871 28 26 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Death 24 July 1910 (Age 38) |
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22 months #2 elder sister |
Birth 8 June 1873 30 28 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Death 16 August 1945 (Age 72) |
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23 months #3 elder brother |
Birth 16 May 1875 32 30 Gunbower, Victoria, Australia Death 7 April 1933 (Age 57) Australia |
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2 years #4 elder sister |
Birth 23 August 1877 34 32 Gunbower, Victoria, Australia Death 9 December 1958 (Age 81) |
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4 years #5 elder brother |
Birth 11 June 1881 38 36 Gunbower, Victoria, Australia Death 25 May 1971 (Age 89) |
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4 years #6 herself |
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-5 years #7 elder sister |
Martha Starritt
Birth November 1879 36 34 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Death 4 August 1882 (Age 2) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
| Family with Alfred Edward Rathjen - View family |
| husband |
Birth 28 September 1879 53 41 Colbinabbin, Victoria, Australia Death 29 August 1960 (Age 80) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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5 years herself |
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| #1 son |
Alfred Henning "Pete" Rathjen
Birth 1915 35 30 Australia Death yes |
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2 years #2 son |
George Starritt Rathjen
Birth 1917 37 32 Australia Death 1918 (Age 12 months) Australia |
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1 year #3 daughter |
Nancy Catherine Rathjen
Birth 1918 38 33 Australia Death yes |
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2 years #4 daughter |
Una Othinda Rathjen
Birth 1920 40 35 Australia Death yes |
| #5 daughter | |
| #6 daughter | |
| #7 son |
Finlay Starritt Rathjen
Birth 1926 46 41 Australia Death 12 October 2021 (Age 95) |
Catherine Matilda "Cassie" Starritt has 35 first cousins recorded
Father's family (21)
Parents John Starritt + Isabella Mc Phee
Parents Alexander Starritt + Martha Gregg
Parents Alexander Starritt + Mattie Rutherford
Mother's family (14)
Parents John Johnston + Mary Gregg
Parents Richard Gregg + Catherine Mc Kay
Parents Robert Gregg + Isabella Gibson
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