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Sarah Ann Escourt Wilcox1819–?

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Sarah Ann Escourt Wilcox
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Sarah Ann Escourt
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Wilcox
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Birth 1819
 Isle of Wight, England

Australian History 1824 (Age 5)
 

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 6)
 

Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed.
Australian History 1828 (Age 9)
 

Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.
Australian History 1829 (Age 10)
 

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 11)
 

Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.
Australian History 1831 (Age 12)
 

Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Australian History 1832 (Age 13)
 

Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Australian History 1833 (Age 14)
 

Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History 1835 (Age 16)
 

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.
Australian History 1836 (Age 17)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History 1838 (Age 19)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History 1839 (Age 20)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History 1840 (Age 21)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Australian History 1841 (Age 22)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 23)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 24)
 

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 26)
 

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.
Conviction
Theft
27 October 1847 (Age 28)
 Newport, Isle of Wight

Note: Sarah was tried at Southampton, Newport Isle of Wight Quarter Sessions. She was sentenced and transported to Australia. Given 10 years in Australia
Sarrah Ann Escourt Wilcox Behaviour Record
Sarrah Ann Escourt Wilcox Behaviour Record


Sarah Ann Escourt Wilcox Description
Sarah Ann Escourt Wilcox Description


Sarah Ann Escourt Wilcox Index Record
Sarah Ann Escourt Wilcox Index Record

Emigration 13 February 1848 (Age 29)
 United Kingdom

Note: One of 170 convicts that departed the United Kingdom on the Elizabeth and Henry voyage to Australia.
Immigration 30 June 1848 (Age 29)
 Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

Note: 
Name:
Wilcox, Sarah Ann Eastcourt Record Type: Convicts Arrival date: 30 Jun 1848 Departure date: 13 Feb 1848 Departure port: London Ship: Elizabeth & Henry (3) Voyage number: 297 Index number: 75898 Document ID: NAME_INDEXES:1446036 Conduct RecordCON41/1/17 Description ListCON19/1/6 IndentCON15/1/4
Note:  Her behaviour record in Van Diemen’s Land says she was “Transported for felony two charges gaol repo…
Her behaviour record in Van Diemen’s Land says she was “Transported for felony two charges gaol report unknown. Single stated this offence stealing plate and ???. 10 Years for ?????? She was assigned to the “Anson” for six months.
HMS Anson
HMS Anson

Note:  The HMS Anson was a 1,870 ton warship which arrived in Hobart in 1844 landing 499 male convicts. Aft…
The HMS Anson was a 1,870 ton warship which arrived in Hobart in 1844 landing 499 male convicts. After disembarking her 'cargo', she was refitted as a prison and towed to Prince of Wales Bay, Risdon, near Hobart, where she was moored. The Anson hulk was used to house female convicts from 1844 in an attempt to alleviate the overcrowding at Cascades Female Factory as more female convict ships arrived. Dr and Mrs Bowden were appointed to manage the Anson Probation Station. For further information on employees of the Anson Probation Station see Employees: Arrival in the Colony. Once the convicts had served their six months probation, they were hired into service as probation pass-holders. The Anson was broken up in 1850.

Conviction
Disobedience
17 November 1848 (Age 29)
 Tasmania, Australia

Note: Sarah spent seven days in a cell for not changing her clothes.
Conviction
Disobedience
27 January 1849 (Age 30)
 Tasmania, Australia

Note: It seems she disobeyed orders and received four months of hard labour.
Conviction
Insolence
1 June 1850 (Age 31)
 Tasmania, Australia

Note: Iit seems she is charged with insolence and given three months of hard labour.
Conviction
Insolence
19 August 1850 (Age 31)
 Tasmania, Australia

Note: It seems she spent six days in a cell for incolence again.
Australian History 1850 (Age 31)
 

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.
MarriageCharles Thomson - View family
14 July 1851 (Age 32)
 Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

Note: 
Groom's Name: Charles Thomson
Groom's Birth Date: 1823 Groom's Birthplace: Groom's Age: 28 Bride's Name: Sarah Ann Escourt Wilcox Bride's Birth Date: 1819 Bride's Birthplace: Bride's Age: 32 Marriage Date: 14 Jul 1851 Marriage Place: Launceston, Van Diemens Land, Australia Groom's Father's Name: Groom's Mother's Name: Bride's Father's Name: Bride's Mother's Name: Groom's Race: Groom's Marital Status: Single Groom's Previous Wife's Name: Bride's Race: Bride's Marital Status: Single Bride's Previous Husband's Name: Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M31046-6 System Origin: Australia Source Film Number: 1368290 Reference Number: 684
Note: 
Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950 about Sarah Ann Escourt Wilcox
Name: Sarah Ann Escourt Wilcox Spouse Name: Charles Thomson Marriage Date: 14 Jul 1851 Marriage Place: Tasmania Registration Place: Launceston, Tasmania Registration Year: 1851
Note: 
Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950 about Charles Thomson
Name: Charles Thomson Spouse Name: Ann Escourt Sarah Wilcox Marriage Date: 14 Jul 1851 Marriage Place: Tasmania Registration Place: Launceston, Tasmania Registration Year: 1851 Registration number: 684
Marriage record of Charles Thompson and Sarah Ann Escourt Wilcox.png
Marriage record of Charles Thompson and Sarah Ann Escourt Wilcox.png

Note: Charles Thompson Rank: Ticket of Leave - A ticket of leave was a document of parole issued to convicts who had shown they could now be trusted with some freedoms.

Australian History 1851 (Age 32)
 

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
Birth of a daughter
#1		 13 June 1852 (Age 33)
 Longford, Tasmania, Australia

daughter - Elizabeth Thompson
Australian History 1853 (Age 34)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Birth of a daughter
#2		 1 July 1854 (Age 35)
 Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

daughter - Matilda Jane Thompson
Australian History 1854 (Age 35)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 36)
 

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 37)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 38)
 

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 39)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1859 (Age 40)
 

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 41)
 

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 42)
 

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 43)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 44)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Australian History 1867 (Age 48)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Australian History 1868 (Age 49)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Marriage of a daughterMatilda Jane Thompson - View family
1869 (Age 50)
 Victoria, Australia

son-in-law - James Watson
daughter - Matilda Jane Thompson
Australian History 1869 (Age 50)
 

Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.
Birth of a granddaughter
#1		 1872 (Age 53)
 Yea, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Emily Watson
Australian History 1872 (Age 53)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 54)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Birth of a grandson
#2		 1875 (Age 56)
 Yea, Victoria, Australia

grandson - George James Charles Watson
Australian History 1875 (Age 56)
 

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 granddaughter
#3		 1878 (Age 59)
 Yea, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Jane Watson
Australian History 1878 (Age 59)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 60)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Birth of a grandson
#4		 1880 (Age 61)
 Yea, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Walter Joseph Watson
Death of a grandson 1880 (Age 61)
 Yea, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Walter Joseph Watson
Australian History 1880 (Age 61)
 

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 granddaughter
#5		 1881 (Age 62)
 Yea, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Elizabeth Margaret Watson
Death of a daughter 1882 (Age 63)
 Yea, Victoria, Australia

daughter - Matilda Jane Thompson
Australian History 1882 (Age 63)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 64)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Australian History 1887 (Age 68)
 

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 70)
 

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 71)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History 1891 (Age 72)
 

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 73)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History 1893 (Age 74)
 

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 75)
 

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 76)
 

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 77)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History 1897 (Age 78)
 

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.
Marriage of a grandsonGeorge James Charles Watson - View family
1898 (Age 79)
 Victoria, Australia

grandson - George James Charles Watson
grandson's wife - Wilhelmena Mayo Patience Thurston
Australian History 1898 (Age 79)
 

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 80)
 

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 81)
 

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 82)
 

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 83)
 

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 84)
 

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 85)
 

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 87)
 

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Australian History 1908 (Age 89)
 

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 90)
 

Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History 1910 (Age 91)
 

Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History 1911 (Age 92)
 

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 93)
 

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 94)
 

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 94)
 

Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History 1914 (Age 95)
 

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 96)
 

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 97)
 

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 98)
 

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 99)
 

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 100)
 

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 101)
 

Note: The airline Qantas is founded
Australian History 1921 (Age 102)
 

Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament
Australian History 1922 (Age 103)
 

Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney
Australian History 1923 (Age 104)
 

Note: Vegemite is first produced
Deathyes
 

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husband
Charles Thomson

Birth 1823  

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Sarah Ann Escourt Wilcox

Birth 1819  Isle of Wight, England

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Marriage: 14 July 1851 — Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
11 months
#1 daughter
Elizabeth Thompson

Birth 13 June 1852 29 33  Longford, Tasmania, Australia

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2 years
#2 daughter
Matilda Jane Thompson

Birth 1 July 1854 31 35  Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

Death 1882 (Age 27)  Yea, Victoria, Australia

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Australian History
A penal colony is founded at Moreton Bay, now the city of Brisbane.

Australian History
New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed.

Australian History
Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.

Australian History
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
Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.

Australian History
Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.

Australian History
Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.

Australian History
The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.

Australian History
John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner establish a settlement at Port Phillip, now the city of Melbourne.

Australian History
Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.

Australian History
First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.

Australian History
Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.

Australian History
Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.

Australian History
New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.

Australian History
Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.

Australian History
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
The ship Cataraqui is wrecked off King Island in Bass Strait. It is Australia's worst civil maritime disaster, with 406 lives lost.

Conviction
Sarah was tried at Southampton, Newport Isle of Wight Quarter Sessions. She was sentenced and transported to Australia. Given 10 years in Australia

Emigration
One of 170 convicts that departed the United Kingdom on the Elizabeth and Henry voyage to Australia.

Immigration
Name: Wilcox, Sarah Ann Eastcourt Record Type: Convicts Arrival date: 30 Jun 1848 Departure date: 13 Feb 1848 Departure port: London Ship: Elizabeth & Henry (3) Voyage number: 297 Index number: 75898 Document ID: NAME_INDEXES:1446036 Conduct RecordCON41/1/17 Description ListCON19/1/6 IndentCON15/1/4

Immigration
Her behaviour record in Van Diemen’s Land says she was “Transported for felony two charges gaol report unknown. Single stated this offence stealing plate and ???. 10 Years for ?????? She was assigned to the “Anson” for six months.

Conviction
Sarah spent seven days in a cell for not changing her clothes.

Conviction
It seems she disobeyed orders and received four months of hard labour.

Conviction
Iit seems she is charged with insolence and given three months of hard labour.

Conviction
It seems she spent six days in a cell for incolence again.

Australian History
Western Australia becomes a penal colony.

Marriage
Groom's Name: Charles Thomson Groom's Birth Date: 1823 Groom's Birthplace: Groom's Age: 28 Bride's Name: Sarah Ann Escourt Wilcox Bride's Birth Date: 1819 Bride's Birthplace: Bride's Age: 32 Marriage Date: 14 Jul 1851 Marriage Place: Launceston, Van Diemens Land, Australia Groom's Father's Name: Groom's Mother's Name: Bride's Father's Name: Bride's Mother's Name: Groom's Race: Groom's Marital Status: Single Groom's Previous Wife's Name: Bride's Race: Bride's Marital Status: Single Bride's Previous Husband's Name: Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M31046-6 System Origin: Australia Source Film Number: 1368290 Reference Number: 684

Marriage
Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950 about Sarah Ann Escourt Wilcox Name: Sarah Ann Escourt Wilcox Spouse Name: Charles Thomson Marriage Date: 14 Jul 1851 Marriage Place: Tasmania Registration Place: Launceston, Tasmania Registration Year: 1851

Marriage
Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950 about Charles Thomson Name: Charles Thomson Spouse Name: Ann Escourt Sarah Wilcox Marriage Date: 14 Jul 1851 Marriage Place: Tasmania Registration Place: Launceston, Tasmania Registration Year: 1851 Registration number: 684

Marriage
Groom's Name: Charles Thomson Groom's Birth Date: 1823 Groom's Birthplace: Groom's Age: 28 Bride's Name: Sarah Ann Escourt Wilcox Bride's Birth Date: 1819 Bride's Birthplace: Bride's Age: 32 Marriage Date: 14 Jul 1851 Marriage Place: Launceston, Van Diemens Land, Australia Groom's Father's Name: Groom's Mother's Name: Bride's Father's Name: Bride's Mother's Name: Groom's Race: Groom's Marital Status: Single Groom's Previous Wife's Name: Bride's Race: Bride's Marital Status: Single Bride's Previous Husband's Name: Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M31046-6 System Origin: Australia Source Film Number: 1368290 Reference Number: 684

Marriage
Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950 about Sarah Ann Escourt Wilcox Name: Sarah Ann Escourt Wilcox Spouse Name: Charles Thomson Marriage Date: 14 Jul 1851 Marriage Place: Tasmania Registration Place: Launceston, Tasmania Registration Year: 1851

Marriage
Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950 about Charles Thomson Name: Charles Thomson Spouse Name: Ann Escourt Sarah Wilcox Marriage Date: 14 Jul 1851 Marriage Place: Tasmania Registration Place: Launceston, Tasmania Registration Year: 1851 Registration number: 684

Australian History
Victoria separates from New South Wales.

Australian History
Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo

Australian History
The Eureka Stockade

Australian History
The transportation of convicts to Norfolk Island ceases.

Australian History
Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.

Australian History
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.

Australian History
Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.

Australian History
SS Admella wrecked off south-east coast of South Australia with the loss of 89 lives.

Australian History
John McDouall Stuart reaches the centre of the continent. South Australian border changed from 132 degrees E to 129 degrees E.

Australian History
The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs.

Australian History
Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.

Australian History
South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.

Australian History
Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.

Australian History
The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.

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.

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



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Sarrah Ann Escourt Wilcox Behaviour Record
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Sarah Ann Escourt Wilcox Description
Sarah Ann Escourt Wilcox Description
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Sarah Ann Escourt Wilcox Index Record
Sarah Ann Escourt Wilcox Index Record
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