Patrick HughesAge: 711869–1940
- Name
- Patrick Hughes
- Given names
- Patrick
- Surname
- Hughes
| Birth | about 1869 37 31 Kirkcudbright, Kircudbright, Scotland |
| Occupation | Coachman |
| Australian History | 1869 Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. |
| Birth of a sister | about 1871 (Age 2) Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland
younger sister -
Marie Hughes
|
| Australian History | 1872 (Age 3) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Australian History | 1873 (Age 4) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Australian History | 1875 (Age 6) 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 sister | about 1876 (Age 7) Sorbie, Wigtown, Scotland
younger sister -
Sarah Hughes
|
| Australian History | 1878 (Age 9) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1879 (Age 10) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 11) Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work. |
| Birth of a sister | 1882 (Age 13)
younger sister -
Catherine Hughes
|
| Australian History | 1882 (Age 13) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 14) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 18) 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 brother | 1888 (Age 19)
younger brother -
William Hughes
|
| Birth of a brother | 1889 (Age 20)
younger brother -
Francis Hughes
|
| Death of a sister | 9 December 1889 (Age 20)
younger sister -
Sarah Hughes
|
| Australian History | 1889 (Age 20) 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 21) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 22) 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 23) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 24) 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 25) Note: South Australia becomes the first Australian colony, and the second place in the world, to grant women the right to vote, as well the first Parliament in the world to allow women to stand for office. |
| Australian History | 1895 (Age 26) 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 27) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Death of a father | 3 August 1897 (Age 28) Workington, Cumberland, England
father -
Patrick Hughes
|
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 28) 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 29) 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. |
| Marriage | Janet Annie Mc Clure - View family 1 December 1899 (Age 30) 35 Hutchieson Street, Glasgow, Scotland Note: Patrick 's family was devoutly Catholic. One of his brothers was a priest who ended up as a missionary in Africa. One of his sisters was a nun. Janet's family was strongly Protestant. Both families were against Patrick and Janet seeing each other. Hence they eloped and were married in Glasgow. The tradition was carried on by Patricia who's family was Protestant who married James, a Catholic. |
| Australian History | 1899 (Age 30) 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 31) 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 32) 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 |
| Birth of a daughter #1 | 1902 (Age 33)
daughter -
Bella Hughes
|
| Australian History | 1902 (Age 33) 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 34) 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 35) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government |
| Birth of a son #2 | 1905 (estimated) (Age 36)
son -
James Hughes
|
| Australian History | 1906 (Age 37) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Birth of a son #3 | 1908 (Age 39)
son -
Robert Hughes
|
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 39) 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 40) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 41) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Birth of a daughter #4 | 1911 (Age 42)
daughter -
Janet "Jetta" Hughes
|
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 42) 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 43) 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 daughter #5 | 5 December 1913 (Age 44)
daughter -
Sarah Hughes
|
| Australian History | 1913 (Age 44) 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 44) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 45) 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 46) 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 47) 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 48) 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 #6 | 4 October 1918 (Age 49) Glasserton, Dumfries and Galloway, Wigtownshire, Scotland
daughter -
Patricia "Patty" Hughes
|
| Australian History | 1918 (Age 49) 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 50) 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 51) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 52) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 53) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 54) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Death of a daughter | 12 February 1924 (Age 55)
daughter -
Catherine Hughes
|
| Death of a mother | 11 May 1925 (Age 56)
mother -
Sarah Jolly
|
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 57) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 58) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 59) 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 60) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 61) 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 62) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 63) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1933 (Age 64) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Birth of a grandson #1 | 1935 (Age 66)
grandson -
Patrick Boyle
|
| Australian History | 1936 (Age 67) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | 1937 (Age 68) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Birth of a granddaughter #2 | 14 December 1938 (Age 69) Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
granddaughter -
Marlene Vernon
|
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 69) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Death of a sister | 25 June 1939 (Age 70) Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland
elder sister -
Margaret Hughes
|
| Birth of a grandson #3 | 25 December 1939 (Age 70) Glaserton Village, Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland
grandson -
James "Gorman" Vernon
|
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 70) 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 71) 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 | 20 June 1940 (Age 71) Age: 72 Patrick Catherine Robert and Janet Patricai not marked.jpg |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Patrick Hughes
Birth 1832 Altrincham, Cheshire, England Death 3 August 1897 (Age 65) Workington, Cumberland, England |
|
6 years mother |
Sarah Jolly
Birth 1838 Altrincham, Cheshire, England Death 11 May 1925 (Age 87) |
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Marriage: yes |
|
| #1 elder brother |
Francis Hughes
Birth about 1866 34 28 Sorbie, Wigtown, Scotland Death yes |
|
3 years #2 himself |
Birth about 1869 37 31 Kirkcudbright, Kircudbright, Scotland Death 20 June 1940 (Age 71) Age: 72 |
| #3 sister |
Elizabeth Hughes
Birth Glasserton, Wigtown, Scotland Death yes |
| #4 younger sister |
Marie Hughes
Birth about 1871 39 33 Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland Death yes |
|
5 years #5 younger sister |
Sarah Hughes
Birth about 1876 44 38 Sorbie, Wigtown, Scotland Death 9 December 1889 (Age 13) |
|
12 years #6 younger brother |
William Hughes
Birth 1888 56 50 Death yes |
|
-6 years #7 younger sister |
Catherine Hughes
Birth 1882 50 44 Death yes |
|
7 years #8 younger brother |
Francis Hughes
Birth 1889 57 51 Death yes |
|
-28 years #9 elder sister |
Mary Hughes
Birth 27 August 1860 28 22 Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland Death 24 August 1863 (Age 2) |
|
3 years #10 elder sister |
Margaret Hughes
Birth 9 April 1863 31 25 Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland Death 25 June 1939 (Age 76) Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland |
| Family with Janet Annie Mc Clure - View family |
| himself |
Birth about 1869 37 31 Kirkcudbright, Kircudbright, Scotland Death 20 June 1940 (Age 71) Age: 72 |
|
21 years wife |
|
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Marriage: 1 December 1899 — 35 Hutchieson Street, Glasgow, Scotland |
|
| #1 son |
Francis Hughes
Death yes |
| #2 daughter |
Bella Hughes
Birth 1902 33 12 Death yes |
| #3 daughter |
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| #4 son |
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3 years #5 daughter |
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3 years #6 daughter |
Sarah Hughes
Birth 5 December 1913 44 23 Death yes |
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5 years #7 daughter |
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 son |
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| 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. |
| Marriage | Patrick 's family was devoutly Catholic. One of his brothers was a priest who ended up as a missionary in Africa. One of his sisters was a nun. Janet's family was strongly Protestant. Both families were against Patrick and Janet seeing each other. Hence they eloped and were married in Glasgow. The tradition was carried on by Patricia who's family was Protestant who married James, a Catholic. |
| Marriage | Patrick 's family was devoutly Catholic. One of his brothers was a priest who ended up as a missionary in Africa. One of his sisters was a nun. Janet's family was strongly Protestant. Both families were against Patrick and Janet seeing each other. Hence they eloped and were married in Glasgow. The tradition was carried on by Patricia who's family was Protestant who married James, a Catholic. |
| 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 |