Patricia "Patty" HughesAge: 471918–1966
- Name
- Patricia "Patty" Hughes
- Given names
- Patricia
- Nickname
- Patty
- Surname
- Hughes
| Birth | 4 October 1918 49 28 Glasserton, Dumfries and Galloway, Wigtownshire, Scotland |
| Australian History | 1918 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 2 months) 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 14 months) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 2) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 3) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 4) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Death of a sister | 12 February 1924 (Age 5)
sister -
Catherine Hughes
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| Death of a paternal grandmother | 11 May 1925 (Age 6)
paternal grandmother -
Sarah Jolly
|
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 7) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 8) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 9) 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 10) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 11) 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 12) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 13) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1933 (Age 14) 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 17) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | 1937 (Age 18) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Birth of a daughter #1 | 14 December 1938 (Age 20) Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
daughter -
Marlene Vernon
|
| Death of a maternal grandfather | 1938 (Age 19) Meeniyan, Victoria, Australia
maternal grandfather -
Robert Mc Clure
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| Australian History | 1938 (Age 19) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Birth of a son #2 | 25 December 1939 (Age 21) Glaserton Village, Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland
son -
James "Gorman" Vernon
|
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 20) 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 |
| Death of a father | 20 June 1940 (Age 21)
father -
Patrick Hughes
|
| Australian History | 1940 (Age 21) 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 22) 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 23) 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 24) 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 husband | 19 September 1944 (Age 25) Netherlands
husband -
James Vernon
|
| Australian History | 1944 (Age 25) 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 26) 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 27) 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 29) 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 30) 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 brother | 2 April 1950 (Age 31)
elder brother -
Robert Hughes
|
| Australian History | 1950 (Age 31) 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 32) Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand |
| Australian History | 1952 (Age 33) Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1954 (Age 35) 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 36) 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 37) 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 38) 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 mother | 7 March 1960 (Age 41)
mother -
Janet Annie Mc Clure
|
| Australian History | 1962 (Age 43) 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 45) 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. |
| Photo | Wigtown Agricultural Show 1965 (Age 46) Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland |
| Australian History | 1965 (Age 46) Note: Indigenous Australians gain right to vote in state of Queensland |
| Australian History | 1966 (on the date of death) 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 47) Note: Decimalisation; on 14 February the Australian currency is changed to dollars and cents, with the Australian Dollar replacing the Australian pound. |
| Death | about 1966 (Age 47) Age: 48 Cause of death: TB. Died of Pulmonary Pnuemonia at a Sanitorium in Dumfries Note: Grave stone not yet marked (May 2018). Patrick Catherine Robert and Janet Patricai not marked.jpg |
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| father |
Birth about 1869 37 31 Kirkcudbright, Kircudbright, Scotland Death 20 June 1940 (Age 71) Age: 72 |
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21 years mother |
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Marriage: 1 December 1899 — 35 Hutchieson Street, Glasgow, Scotland |
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| #1 brother |
Francis Hughes
Death yes |
| #2 elder sister |
Bella Hughes
Birth 1902 33 12 Death yes |
| #3 sister |
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| #4 elder brother |
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3 years #5 elder sister |
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3 years #6 elder sister |
Sarah Hughes
Birth 5 December 1913 44 23 Death yes |
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5 years #7 herself |
Birth 4 October 1918 49 28 Glasserton, Dumfries and Galloway, Wigtownshire, Scotland Death about 1966 (Age 47) Age: 48 |
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-14 years #8 elder brother |
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| husband |
Birth 1918 17 22 Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Death 19 September 1944 (Age 26) Netherlands |
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9 months herself |
Birth 4 October 1918 49 28 Glasserton, Dumfries and Galloway, Wigtownshire, Scotland Death about 1966 (Age 47) Age: 48 |
| #1 daughter |
Birth 14 December 1938 20 20 Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Death 22 April 1999 (Age 60) Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
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1 year #2 son |
Birth 25 December 1939 21 21 Glaserton Village, Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland Death 5 August 2020 (Age 80) |
| #3 son |
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| husband | |
| herself |
Birth 4 October 1918 49 28 Glasserton, Dumfries and Galloway, Wigtownshire, Scotland Death about 1966 (Age 47) Age: 48 |
| #1 son |
Patricia "Patty" Hughes has 8 first cousins recorded
Father's family (8)
Parents James McShane + Margaret Hughes
Mother's family (0)
| 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. |
| Australian History | 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. |
| Australian History | The Beatles tour Australia; |
| Australian History | Indigenous Australians gain right to vote in state of Queensland |
| Australian History | The ban on the employment of married women in the Commonwealth Public Service is lifted; |
| Australian History | Decimalisation; on 14 February the Australian currency is changed to dollars and cents, with the Australian Dollar replacing the Australian pound. |
| Death | Grave stone not yet marked (May 2018). |