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William A. GreggAge: 661850–1916

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William A. Gregg
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William A.
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Gregg
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Birth 31 March 1850 14
 Cherrytree, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA

MarriageMargaret S. Hayes - View family
 

Australian History 1850
 

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 9 months)
 

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 2)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History 1854 (Age 3)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 4)
 

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 5)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Marriage of parentsView family
14 August 1857 (Age 7)
 

father - John Gregg
mother - Sarah Redfield
Australian History 1857 (Age 6)
 

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 7)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1859 (Age 8)
 

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 9)
 

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 10)
 

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 11)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 12)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Death of a paternal grandfather 10 February 1864 (Age 13)
 Cherrytree, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA

paternal grandfather - Richard Gregg
Australian History 1867 (Age 16)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Australian History 1868 (Age 17)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 18)
 

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 21)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 22)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History 1875 (Age 24)
 

Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives.
Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed.
Death of a wife 1876 (Age 25)
 

wife - Margaret S. Hayes
Australian History 1878 (Age 27)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 28)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 29)
 

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 31)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 32)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Australian History 1887 (Age 36)
 

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 38)
 

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 39)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History 1891 (Age 40)
 

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 41)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History 1893 (Age 42)
 

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 43)
 

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 44)
 

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 45)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History 1897 (Age 46)
 

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 47)
 

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 48)
 

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 49)
 

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 50)
 

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 51)
 

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 52)
 

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 53)
 

Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital
Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government
Death of a father 30 July 1906 (Age 56)
 Oil Creek Township, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA

father - John Gregg
Australian History 1906 (Age 55)
 

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Australian History 1908 (Age 57)
 

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 58)
 

Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History 1910 (Age 59)
 

Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History 1911 (Age 60)
 

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 61)
 

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 62)
 

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 62)
 

Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History 1914 (Age 63)
 

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 64)
 

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 65)
 

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
Death 23 April 1916 (Age 66)
 Cherrytree, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA

Burial
 Venango, Pennsylvania, USA

Cemetery: Jamison Corners Cemetary
Family with parents - View family
father
John Gregg

Birth 2 March 1836 46 37  Oakland Township, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA

Death 30 July 1906 (Age 70)  Oil Creek Township, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA

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mother
Sarah Redfield

Birth  Oil Creek Township, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA

Death yes  

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Marriage: 14 August 1857
#1 sister
Caroline Gregg

Death yes  

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#2 himself
William A. Gregg

Birth 31 March 1850 14  Cherrytree, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA

Death 23 April 1916 (Age 66)  Cherrytree, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA

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Family with Margaret S. Hayes - View family
himself
William A. Gregg

Birth 31 March 1850 14  Cherrytree, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA

Death 23 April 1916 (Age 66)  Cherrytree, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA

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7 years
wife
Margaret S. Hayes

Birth 18 December 1856  Venango, Pennsylvania, USA

Death 1876 (Age 19)  

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Marriage: yes
#1 son
Floyd Hayes

Death yes  

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William A. Gregg has 21 first cousins recorded

Father's family (21)

Parents James Mc Nutt + Eliza Gregg
1 Elizabeth Mc Nutt 1846–1939
2 William Mc Nutt ?–?
3 Margaret Mc Nutt ?–?
4 Jane Mc Nutt ?–?
5 Jessie Mc Nutt ?–?
6 Florence Mc Nutt ?–?
7 Robert Mc Nutt ?–?
8 David Mc Nutt ?–?
9 Joseph Mc Nutt ?–?
10 Viola Mc Nutt ?–?
11 Emma Mc Nutt ?–?
12 Mary Mc Nutt ?–?
13 Gertrude Mc Nutt ?–?
Parents Robert Gregg + Mary Jane Ralston
1 Robert O. Gregg ?–1941
2 Lizzie Gregg ?–?
3 James Gregg ?–?
4 John H. Gregg 1856–?
5 Sarah Gregg 1859–?
6 Etta Hannah Gregg 1869–1907
7 Samuel Wesley Gregg 1873–1915
8 Charlie J. Gregg 1874–?

Mother's family (0)


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