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Hannah Herdick1778–?

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Hannah Herdick
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Hannah
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Herdick
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Birth 1778
 Livingston, Columbia, New York, USA

Australian History 1788 (Age 10)
 

Note: The British First Fleet, led by Governor Arthur Phillip arrives in New South Wales to found first European settlement and penal colony at Sydney. Colony includes 'all the islands adjacent in the Pacific Ocean' and running westward to the 135th meridian east. This claim included the islands of New Zealand, which were administered as part of New South Wales.
Note: British settlement founded at Norfolk Island.
Australian History 1790 (Age 12)
 

Note: Beleaguered Second Fleet arrives. Colony gripped by food crisis.
Australian History 1792 (Age 14)
 

Note: Two French ships, La Recherche and L'Esp�rance, anchor at Recherche Bay, near the southernmost point of Tasmania at a time when England and France were racing around the globe to be the first to discover and colonise Australia.
Note: Governor Philip returns to England, accompanied by his friend Bennelong and a companion who become the first Australian born person to sail to Europe.
Australian History 1797 (Age 19)
 

Note: Sydney Cove wrecked and some survivors travelled from Bass Strait to Port Jackson allowing for the rescue of others but also furthering knowledge of the geography of Australia.
Australian History 1798 (Age 20)
 

Note: 1798-9 - George Bass and Matthew Flinders sail from Sydney and circumnavigate Tasmania, thus proving it to be an island.
MarriageElijah Van Hoesen - View family
15 October 1799 (Age 21)
 Coxsackie, Greene, New York, USA

Birth of a son
#1		 2 October 1800 (Age 22)
 Livingston, Columbia, New York, USA

son - John Van Hoesen
Christening of a son 9 November 1800 (Age 22)
 Livingston, Columbia, New York, USA

son - John Van Hoesen
Birth of a daughter
#2		 1801 (Age 23)
 

daughter - Maria Van Hoesen
Australian History 1803 (Age 25)
 

Note: Matthew Flinders completes the first circumnavigation of the continent (still known as 'New Holland')
Australian History 1804 (Age 26)
 

Note: A settlement is founded at Risdon on the Derwent River in Van Diemen's Land by Lieutenant Bowen.
Note: Castle Hill convict rebellion also known as the second Battle of Vinegar Hill
Note: The Risdon settlement is moved to Sullivan's Cove (now Hobart) by Colonel David Collins.
Birth of a son
#3		 1806 (Age 28)
 Greenport, Columbia, New York, USA

son - Peter H. Van Hoesen
Birth of a daughter
#4		 25 October 1807 (Age 29)
 Churchtown, Columbia, New York, USA

daughter - Anna Van Hoesen
Australian History 1808 (Age 30)
 

Note: The Rum Rebellion
Birth of a daughter
#5		 6 May 1810 (Age 32)
 Churchtown, Columbia, New York, USA

daughter - Elisa Van Hoesen
Birth of a daughter
#6		 20 September 1812 (Age 34)
 Churchtown, Columbia, New York, USA

daughter - Lena Van Hoesen
Christening of a son 25 June 1815 (Age 37)
 Claverack, Columbia, New York, USA

son - Peter H. Van Hoesen
Australian History 1817 (Age 39)
 

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'
Birth of a daughter
#7		 1 March 1818 (Age 40)
 Churchtown, Columbia, New York, USA

daughter - Priscilla Van Hoesen
Australian History 1818 (Age 40)
 

Note: Oxley charts the Macquarie River.
Marriage of a sonJohn Van Hoesen - View family
1819 (Age 41)
 Athens & Preble, New York, USA

son - John Van Hoesen
daughter-in-law - Mary Parke
Marriage of a daughterMaria Van Hoesen - View family
11 February 1821 (Age 43)
 Linlithgo, Columbia, New York, USA

son-in-law - George Wilson Potts
daughter - Maria Van Hoesen
Birth of a daughter
#8		 20 May 1821 (Age 43)
 Churchtown, Columbia, New York, USA

daughter - Almina Van Hoesen
Birth of a grandson
#1		 6 September 1821 (Age 43)
 Greenport, Columbia, New York, USA

grandson - William Lewis Potts
Birth of a granddaughter
#2		 29 September 1821 (Age 43)
 Preble, Cortland, New York, USA

granddaughter - Keturah Van Hoesen
Christening of a grandson 28 October 1821 (Age 43)
 Linlithgo, Columbia, New York, USA

grandson - William Lewis Potts
Birth of a grandson
#3		 6 August 1824 (Age 46)
 Linlithgo, Columbia, New York, USA

grandson - John Henry Potts
Death of a daughter 6 August 1824 (Age 46)
 Livingston, Columbia, New York, USA

daughter - Maria Van Hoesen
Australian History 1824 (Age 46)
 

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
Christening of a grandson 24 October 1824 (Age 46)
 Reformed Church, Linlithgo, Columbia, New York, USA

grandson - John Henry Potts
Australian History 1825 (Age 47)
 

Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed.
Australian History 1828 (Age 50)
 

Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.
Australian History 1829 (Age 51)
 

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 52)
 

Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.
Australian History 1831 (Age 53)
 

Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Australian History 1832 (Age 54)
 

Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Australian History 1833 (Age 55)
 

Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History 1835 (Age 57)
 

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.
Marriage of a sonPeter H. Van Hoesen - View family
29 September 1836 (Age 58)
 Dutch Reformed, Katsbaan, Ulster, New York, USA

son - Peter H. Van Hoesen
daughter-in-law - Jane Hallenbeck
Australian History 1836 (Age 58)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History 1838 (Age 60)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History 1839 (Age 61)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History 1840 (Age 62)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Australian History 1841 (Age 63)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 64)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 65)
 

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).
Marriage of a grandsonWilliam Lewis Potts - View family
1844 (estimated) (Age 66)
 

grandson - William Lewis Potts
grandson's wife - Elizabeth Potts
Marriage of a granddaughterKeturah Van Hoesen - View family
1845 (Age 67)
 Athens & Preble, New York, USA

granddaughter's husband - Harry Grove Moore
granddaughter - Keturah Van Hoesen
Australian History 1845 (Age 67)
 

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.
Australian History 1850 (Age 72)
 

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 73)
 

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 75)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History 1854 (Age 76)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 77)
 

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.
Marriage of a grandsonJohn Henry Potts - View family
13 November 1856 (Age 78)
 Beechworth, Victoria, Australia

grandson - John Henry Potts
grandson's wife - Mary Ann Toomath
Australian History 1856 (Age 78)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 79)
 

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.
Australian History 1858 (Age 80)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1859 (Age 81)
 

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.
Australian History 1860 (Age 82)
 

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 83)
 

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 84)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 85)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Australian History 1867 (Age 89)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Australian History 1868 (Age 90)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Death of a husband 1869 (Age 91)
 

husband - Elijah Van Hoesen
Australian History 1869 (Age 91)
 

Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.
Australian History 1872 (Age 94)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 95)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History 1875 (Age 97)
 

Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives.
Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed.
Australian History 1878 (Age 100)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 101)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 102)
 

Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged.
Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work.
Australian History 1882 (Age 104)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Deathyes
 

Family with Elijah Van Hoesen - View family
husband
Elijah Van Hoesen

Birth 1778  Livingston, Columbia, New York, USA

Death 1869 (Age 91)  

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herself
Hannah Herdick

Birth 1778  Livingston, Columbia, New York, USA

Death yes  

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Marriage: 15 October 1799 — Coxsackie, Greene, New York, USA
1 year
#1 son
John Van Hoesen

Birth 2 October 1800 22 22  Livingston, Columbia, New York, USA

Death yes  

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3 months
#2 daughter
Maria Van Hoesen

Birth 1801 23 23  

Death 6 August 1824 (Age 23)  Livingston, Columbia, New York, USA

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7 years
#3 daughter
Anna Van Hoesen

Birth 25 October 1807 29 29  Churchtown, Columbia, New York, USA

Death yes  

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3 years
#4 daughter
Elisa Van Hoesen

Birth 6 May 1810 32 32  Churchtown, Columbia, New York, USA

Death yes  

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2 years
#5 daughter
Lena Van Hoesen

Birth 20 September 1812 34 34  Churchtown, Columbia, New York, USA

Death yes  

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-7 years
#6 son
Peter H. Van Hoesen

Birth 1806 28 28  Greenport, Columbia, New York, USA

Death yes  

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12 years
#7 daughter
Priscilla Van Hoesen

Birth 1 March 1818 40 40  Churchtown, Columbia, New York, USA

Death yes  

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3 years
#8 daughter
Almina Van Hoesen

Birth 20 May 1821 43 43  Churchtown, Columbia, New York, USA

Death yes  

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