Mary Gregg1815–?
- Name
- Mary Gregg
- Given names
- Mary
- Surname
- Gregg
| Birth | about 1815 47 Donegal, Ireland |
| Marriage | John Buchanan - View family |
| Australian History | 1817 (Age 2) Note: John Oxley charts the Lachlan River Note: Australia's first bank, the Bank of New South Wales, opens in Macquarie Place, Sydney (it became Westpac in 1982). Note: Governor Lachlan Macquarie petitioned the British Admiralty to use the name 'Australia' instead of 'New Holland' |
| Australian History | 1818 (Age 3) Note: Oxley charts the Macquarie River. |
| Birth of a half-brother | 1819 (Age 4) Altrincham, Cheshire, England
half-brother -
Daniel Mc Entosh Gregg Sr.
|
| Birth of a half-sister | 1822 (estimated) (Age 7) Ballinascadden, Parish Of Killmacrenan, County Donegal, Ireland
half-sister -
Martha "Mattie" Gregg
|
| Australian History | 1824 (Age 9) Note: A penal colony is founded at Moreton Bay, now the city of Brisbane. Note: Bathurst and Melville Islands are annexed. Note: Permission granted to change the name of the continent from 'New Holland' to 'Australia' Note: 1824-25 - Hume and Hovell expedition travels overland to Port Phillip Bay, discovers Murray River |
| Australian History | 1825 (Age 10) Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed. |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | 21 July 1828 (Age 13) Moneylaggan, Donegal, Ireland
paternal grandfather -
Richard Gregg
|
| Australian History | 1828 (Age 13) Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River. |
| Australian History | 1829 (Age 14) Note: The whole of Australia is claimed as British territory. The settlement of Perth is founded. Swan River Colony is declared by Charles Fremantle for Britain. |
| Australian History | 1830 (Age 15) Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River. |
| Australian History | 1831 (Age 16) Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published. |
| Marriage of a brother | Finlay Gregg Sr - View family 1832 (estimated) (Age 17)
brother -
Finlay Gregg Sr
sister-in-law -
Sarah Gailey
|
| Australian History | 1832 (Age 17) Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1833 (Age 18) Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land. |
| Australian History | 1835 (Age 20) Note: John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner establish a settlement at Port Phillip, now the city of Melbourne. Note: William Wentworth establishes Australian Patriotic Association (Australia's first political party) to demand democracy for New South Wales. |
| Birth of a daughter #1 | 1836 (Age 21) Donegal, Ireland
daughter -
Eleanor Buchanan
|
| Marriage of a brother | Robert Gregg - View family 1836 (Age 21)
elder brother -
Robert Gregg
sister-in-law -
Ann Mc Connell
|
| Australian History | 1836 (Age 21) Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E. |
| Birth of a half-brother | 10 November 1837 (Age 22) Ballinascadden, Parish Of Killmacrenan, County Donegal, Ireland
half-brother -
William Gregg
|
| Australian History | 1838 (Age 23) Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time. |
| Australian History | 1839 (Age 24) Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko. |
| Australian History | 1840 (Age 25) Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council. |
| Death of a father | 25 December 1841 (Age 26)
father -
Robert Gregg
|
| Australian History | 1841 (Age 26) Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales. |
| Marriage of a half-brother | Daniel Mc Entosh Gregg Sr. - View family 22 June 1842 (Age 27) Mercer, Pennsylvania, USA
half-brother -
Daniel Mc Entosh Gregg Sr.
half-brother's wife -
Sarah Jane Humphrey
|
| Australian History | 1842 (Age 27) Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia. |
| Australian History | 1843 (Age 28) Note: Australia's first parliamentary elections held for the New South Wales Legislative Council (though voting rights are restricted to males of certain wealth or property). |
| Australian History | 1845 (Age 30) Note: The ship Cataraqui is wrecked off King Island in Bass Strait. It is Australia's worst civil maritime disaster, with 406 lives lost. Note: Copper is discovered at Burra in South Australia. |
| Birth of a daughter #2 | 1849 (Age 34) Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland
daughter -
Jane Buchanan
|
| Australian History | 1850 (Age 35) Note: Western Australia becomes a penal colony. Note: Australian Colonies Government Act [1850] grants representative constitutions to New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania, colonies set about writing constitutions which produced democratically progressive parliaments Note: Australia's first university, the University of Sydney, is founded. |
| Australian History | 1851 (Age 36) Note: Victoria separates from New South Wales. Note: The Victorian gold rush starts when gold is found at Summerhill Creek and Ballarat. Note: Forest Creek Monster Meeting of miners at Chewton near Castlemaine |
| Australian History | 1853 (Age 38) Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo |
| Australian History | 1854 (Age 39) Note: The Eureka Stockade |
| Australian History | 1855 (Age 40) Note: The transportation of convicts to Norfolk Island ceases. Note: All men over 21 years of age obtain the right to vote in South Australia. |
| Australian History | 1856 (Age 41) Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania. |
| Australian History | 1857 (Age 42) Note: Victorian Committee reported that a 'federal union' would be in the interests of all the growing colonies. However, there was not enough interest in or enthusiasm for taking positive steps towards bringing the colonies together. Note: Victorian men achieve the right to vote. |
| Birth of a grandson #1 | October 1858 (Age 43) Letterkenny, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland
grandson -
John Rankin
|
| Australian History | 1858 (Age 43) Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph. Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote. |
| Australian History | 1859 (Age 44) Note: SS Admella wrecked off south-east coast of South Australia with the loss of 89 lives. Note: Australian rules football codified, Melbourne Football Club founded Note: Queensland separates from New South Wales with its western border at 141 degrees E. |
| Birth of a grandson #2 | 4 April 1860 (Age 45) Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
grandson -
David Rankin
|
| Marriage of a daughter | Eleanor Buchanan - View family about 1860 (Age 45) Donegal, Ireland
son-in-law -
Andrew Rankin
daughter -
Eleanor Buchanan
|
| Marriage of a half-brother | William Gregg - View family 19 December 1860 (Age 45)
half-brother -
William Gregg
half-brother's wife -
Agnes Gordon
|
| Australian History | 1860 (Age 45) 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 46) 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 47) Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E. |
| Birth of a grandson #3 | 10 August 1863 (Age 48) Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
grandson -
Robert Rankin
|
| Australian History | 1863 (Age 48) Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales. |
| Death of a brother | 10 February 1864 (Age 49) Cherrytree, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA
elder brother -
Richard Gregg
|
| Birth of a granddaughter #4 | 1866 (Age 51) Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
granddaughter -
Margaret Jane Rankin
|
| Death of a granddaughter | 1866 (Age 51) Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
granddaughter -
Margaret Jane Rankin
|
| Australian History | 1867 (Age 52) Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. |
| Australian History | 1868 (Age 53) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
| Australian History | 1869 (Age 54) Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. |
| Birth of a grandson #5 | 17 July 1870 (Age 55) Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
grandson -
Andrew Sampson Thomas Rankin
|
| Birth of a grandson #6 | 16 June 1872 (Age 57)
grandson -
James Buchanan Rankin Sr.
|
| Australian History | 1872 (Age 57) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Marriage of a daughter | Jane Buchanan - View family 23 December 1873 (Age 58) St. Andrew's Manse, Sandhurst, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
son-in-law -
James Young Sr
daughter -
Jane Buchanan
|
| Australian History | 1873 (Age 58) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Australian History | 1875 (Age 60) Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives. Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed. |
| Birth of a grandson #7 | 19 May 1878 (Age 63) Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia
grandson -
Gregory Rankin
|
| Birth of a granddaughter #8 | 30 June 1878 (Age 63)
granddaughter -
Eliza Jane "Lila" Young
|
| Australian History | 1878 (Age 63) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1879 (Age 64) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 65) Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work. |
| Marriage of a grandson | David Rankin - View family 2 October 1882 (Age 67) Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
grandson -
David Rankin
grandson's wife -
Ann Hendry
|
| Australian History | 1882 (Age 67) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Marriage of a grandson | John Rankin - View family 3 December 1883 (Age 68) Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
grandson -
John Rankin
grandson's wife -
Jean Bain
|
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 68) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Death of a half-sister | 3 October 1885 (Age 70) Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
half-sister -
Martha "Mattie" Gregg
|
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 72) 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. |
| Death of a half-brother | 19 December 1889 (Age 74) Grove City, Pennsylvania, USA
half-brother -
Daniel Mc Entosh Gregg Sr.
|
| Australian History | 1889 (Age 74) 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 75) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 76) 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 77) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 78) 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 79) 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. |
| Death of a daughter | 10 August 1895 (Age 80) Tennyson, Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Eleanor Buchanan
|
| Australian History | 1895 (Age 80) 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 81) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 82) 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. |
| Death of a grandson | 30 September 1898 (Age 83) Spring Gully Rd, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
grandson -
John Rankin
|
| Australian History | 1898 (Age 83) 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 84) 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 85) 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 |
| Australian History | 1901 (Age 86) 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 |
| Marriage of a grandson | Andrew Sampson Thomas Rankin - View family 1902 (Age 87) Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
grandson -
Andrew Sampson Thomas Rankin
grandson's wife -
Catherine Ashley
|
| Australian History | 1902 (Age 87) 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 grandson | James Buchanan Rankin Sr. - View family 1903 (Age 88)
grandson -
James Buchanan Rankin Sr.
great-niece -
Ellenor Mary Starritt
|
| Australian History | 1903 (Age 88) 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 89) 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 91) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 93) 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 94) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 95) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 96) 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 97) 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 98) 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 98) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 99) 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 100) 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 101) 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 102) 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 103) 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 104) 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. |
| Death | yes |
| Religion | Church Of Ireland |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Robert Gregg
Birth 1768 28 Donegal, Ireland Death 25 December 1841 (Age 73) |
| mother |
Mattie Mc Clure
Death yes |
|
Marriage: yes |
|
| #1 elder brother |
Richard Gregg
Birth 1790 22 Ireland Death 10 February 1864 (Age 74) Cherrytree, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA |
| #2 brother |
Finlay Gregg Sr
Birth Ireland Death yes |
| #3 elder brother |
Robert Gregg
Birth 1810 42 Ireland Death yes |
|
5 years #4 herself |
Mary Gregg
Birth about 1815 47 Donegal, Ireland Death yes |
| #5 sister |
Jeanie Gregg
Birth Ireland Death yes |
| #6 sister |
Eliza Gregg
Birth Ireland Death yes |
| Father’s family with Peggy Starritt - View family |
| father |
Robert Gregg
Birth 1768 28 Donegal, Ireland Death 25 December 1841 (Age 73) |
| step-mother |
Peggy Starritt
Death yes |
|
Marriage: yes |
|
| #1 half-sister |
Margaret Rose Gregg
Birth Ireland Death yes |
| #2 half-brother |
Birth 1819 51 Altrincham, Cheshire, England Death 19 December 1889 (Age 70) Grove City, Pennsylvania, USA |
| #3 half-sister |
Nancy Gregg
Birth Ireland Death yes |
| #4 half-sister |
Birth 1822 (estimated) 54 Ballinascadden, Parish Of Killmacrenan, County Donegal, Ireland Death 3 October 1885 (Age 63) Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA |
|
16 years #5 half-brother |
William Gregg
Birth 10 November 1837 69 Ballinascadden, Parish Of Killmacrenan, County Donegal, Ireland Death Cherrytree, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Family with John Buchanan - View family |
| husband |
John Buchanan
Birth about 1815 Donegal, Ireland Death yes |
| herself |
Mary Gregg
Birth about 1815 47 Donegal, Ireland Death yes |
|
Marriage: yes |
|
| #1 daughter |
Jane Buchanan
Birth 1849 34 34 Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland Death 29 December 1930 (Age 81) |
|
-13 years #2 daughter |
Eleanor Buchanan
Birth 1836 21 21 Donegal, Ireland Death 10 August 1895 (Age 59) Tennyson, Victoria, Australia |