John Gibson 1858

John GibsonAge: 781858–1936

Name: John Gibson

Given names: John

Surname: Gibson

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Birth

9 May 1858 48 36

Oil City, Pennsylvania, USA

Note: born in Pennsylvania worked in the Oil fields in Boston, Mass moved around as an oil worker owned home in Chicago 1900 census ed 837 sheet 16 line 82 listed as machinist 1920 Census Cook County, Illinois Chicago ed # 1607pg 1 Soundex g-125 line 1975 North Sawyer Avenue Chicago, Cook, Illinois Death certificate info died 8-9-1936 Died 78 yrs., 3 mos, 0 days Machinist, Premiere Printing Co. until 2-1932 - 40 years as a machinist lived at 5257 Roscoe Chicago, Cook, Illinois - 40 years Married at time of death Buried St. Joseph Cemetery in River Grove 8-12-1936 708-453-0184 Large family plot that is full North half of lot 30 block 9 section J big monument GIBSON Was burned in an oil fire in Venango PA in the late 1870s was hired to go Forbes Lithograph Co. in Chelsea, MASS because he asked asked the most money. Check both Venango and Chicago in 1900

Occupation

in 1920 census he was a machinist and ran a printing press.

Australian History

1858

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.

Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.

Australian History

1859 (Age 7 months)

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 brother

12 November 1860 (Age 2)

Pennsylvania, USA

younger brother - Samuel Richard "Dick" Gibson

Australian History

1860 (Age 19 months)

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 2)

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 3)

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

Australian History

1863 (Age 4)

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.

Marriage of a brother

William Gibson - View family
4 October 1866 (Age 8)

Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA

elder brother - William Gibson

sister-in-law - Elizabeth Mc Nutt

Australian History

1867 (Age 8)

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.

Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.

Australian History

1868 (Age 9)

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.

Australian History

1869 (Age 10)

Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.

Death of a brother

18 March 1872 (Age 13)

Pennsylvania, USA

elder brother - Robert Gibson

Australian History

1872 (Age 13)

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.

Australian History

1873 (Age 14)

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.

Australian History

1875 (Age 16)

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 19)

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.

Australian History

1879 (Age 20)

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.

Census

1 June 1880 (Age 22)

Venango, Pennsylvania, USA

Address:

Petroleum Center And Rynd Farm

Shared note: 1880 USA Census transcript - James Gibson - Household

Name	Race	Sex	Age	Relation	MC	YrsM	Occupation	BP	FBP	MBP
James Gibson	W	M	70	Head	M	-	Farmer	-	IRL	IRL
Martha Gregg	W	F	58	wife	M	-	Keeping House	IRL	IRL	-
Daniel Gibson	W	M	23	son	S	-	Oil Producer	PA	-	IRL
John Gibson	W	M	21	son	S	-	Oil Producer	PA	-	IRL
Samuel Richard (Dick) Gibson	W	M	19	son	S	-	At Home	PA	-	IRL

Australian History

1880 (Age 21)

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 23)

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

Australian History

1883 (Age 24)

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway

Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill

Marriage

Kate Mc Cann - View family
about 1885 (Age 26)

Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

Address:

St. Sylvester's Church

Death of a mother

3 October 1885 (Age 27)

Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

mother - Martha "Mattie" Gregg

Australian History

1887 (Age 28)

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 daughter
#1

February 1888 (Age 29)

Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

daughter - Margh Gibson

Death of a brother

20 August 1889 (Age 31)

Pennsylvania (Chicago), USA

elder brother - William Gibson

Birth of a son
#2

17 December 1889 (Age 31)

Illinois, USA

son - Robert James Gibson

Australian History

1889 (Age 30)

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 31)

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.

Australian History

1891 (Age 32)

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 33)

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.

Death of a father

13 September 1893 (Age 35)

Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

father - James Gibson Sr

Australian History

1893 (Age 34)

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.

Birth of a son
#3

27 October 1894 (Age 36)

Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

son - Raymond Leroy Gibson Sr

Australian History

1894 (Age 35)

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 36)

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 37)

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution

Australian History

1897 (Age 38)

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 39)

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.

Birth of a daughter
#4

6 December 1899 (Age 41)

Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

daughter - Bessie Gibson

Australian History

1899 (Age 40)

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 41)

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 42)

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 43)

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

Death of a brother

29 October 1903 (Age 45)

Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

younger brother - Samuel Richard "Dick" Gibson

Australian History

1903 (Age 44)

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 45)

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 47)

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea

Birth of a son
#5

30 March 1907 (Age 48)

Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA

son - Richard W. Gibson

Australian History

1908 (Age 49)

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 50)

Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.

Australian History

1910 (Age 51)

Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.

Australian History

1911 (Age 52)

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 53)

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 54)

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 54)

Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place

Australian History

1914 (Age 55)

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 56)

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 57)

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 58)

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 59)

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 60)

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.

Birth of a grandson
#1

10 June 1920 (Age 62)

Nichols Hospital, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan, USA

grandson - Robert Walworth Gibson

Australian History

1920 (Age 61)

Note: The airline Qantas is founded

Birth of a grandson
#2

16 February 1921 (Age 62)

Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

grandson - Raymond Leroy Gibson Jr

Australian History

1921 (Age 62)

Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament

Australian History

1922 (Age 63)

Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney

Australian History

1923 (Age 64)

Note: Vegemite is first produced

Death of a brother

27 February 1924 (Age 65)

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

elder brother - James Gibson Jr

Death of a daughter

25 July 1924 (Age 66)

Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

daughter - Bessie Gibson

Australian History

1926 (Age 67)

Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held

Australian History

1927 (Age 68)

Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital

Death of a sister

1928 (Age 69)

Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

elder sister - Jane Gibson

Australian History

1928 (Age 69)

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 70)

Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary

Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia.

Australian History

1930 (Age 71)

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 72)

Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia

Australian History

1932 (Age 73)

Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens

Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister

Australian History

1933 (Age 74)

Note: 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

1936 (Age 77)

Note: The last Thylacine dies

Death

9 August 1936 (Age 78)

Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

Cause of death: Chi myocaditis, 2. arteriosclerocus Hypertension

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father	James Gibson Sr Birth 1810 Ireland Death 13 September 1893 (Age 83) Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Loading...
12 years mother	Martha "Mattie" Gregg Birth 1822 (estimated) 54 Ballinascadden, Parish Of Killmacrenan, County Donegal, Ireland Death 3 October 1885 (Age 63) Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Loading...
	Marriage: yes
#1 elder brother	William Gibson Birth 31 October 1842 32 20 Pennsylvania, USA Death 20 August 1889 (Age 46) Pennsylvania (Chicago), USA Loading...
2 years #2 elder sister	Margaret Elizabeth "Lib" Gibson Birth 31 October 1844 34 22 Pennsylvania, USA Death Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Loading...
2 years #3 elder sister	Jane Gibson Birth 9 January 1847 37 25 Pennsylvania, USA Death 1928 (Age 80) Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Loading...
2 years #4 elder brother	James Gibson Jr Birth 12 February 1849 39 27 Pennsylvania, USA Death 27 February 1924 (Age 75) Washington, District of Columbia, USA Loading...
2 years #5 elder sister	Annie Gibson Birth 28 May 1851 41 29 Pennsylvania, USA Death Woodville, Ohio, USA Loading...
3 years #6 elder brother	Robert Gibson Birth 16 May 1854 44 32 Pennsylvania, USA Death 18 March 1872 (Age 17) Pennsylvania, USA Loading...
2 years #7 elder brother	Daniel Gibson Birth 8 May 1856 46 34 Pennsylvania, USA Death after 1936 (Age 79) California, USA Loading...
2 years #8 himself	John Gibson Birth 9 May 1858 48 36 Oil City, Pennsylvania, USA Death 9 August 1936 (Age 78) Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Loading...
3 years #9 younger brother	Samuel Richard "Dick" Gibson Birth 12 November 1860 50 38 Pennsylvania, USA Death 29 October 1903 (Age 42) Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Loading...

Family with Kate Mc Cann - View family

himself	John Gibson Birth 9 May 1858 48 36 Oil City, Pennsylvania, USA Death 9 August 1936 (Age 78) Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Loading...
10 years wife	Kate Mc Cann Birth 4 November 1867 Co. Cavan, Ireland Death 28 November 1938 (Age 71) Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Loading...
	Marriage: about 1885 — Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
3 years #1 daughter	Margh Gibson Birth February 1888 29 20 Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Death 4 June 1973 (Age 85) Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Loading...
23 months #2 son	Robert James Gibson Birth 17 December 1889 31 22 Illinois, USA Death 1953 (Age 63) Battlecreek, Michigan, USA Loading...
5 years #3 son	Raymond Leroy Gibson Sr Birth 27 October 1894 36 26 Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Death 1 August 1959 (Age 64) West Covina, California, USA Loading...
5 years #4 daughter	Bessie Gibson Birth 6 December 1899 41 32 Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Death 25 July 1924 (Age 24) Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Loading...
7 years #5 son	Richard W. Gibson Birth 30 March 1907 48 39 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA Death April 1998 (Age 91) Loading...
#6 son	Raymond Gibson Death yes Loading...

John Gibson has 10 first cousins recorded

Father's family (0)

Mother's family (10)

Parents John Baptist Louise Masson + Margaret Rose Gregg

1 Harriet Rose Masson ?–?

Parents Daniel Mc Entosh Gregg Sr. + Sarah Jane Humphrey

1 David Masson Gregg 1862–1934

2 Harriet Rose Gregg 1843–?

3 Robert John Gregg 1845–1847

4 Margaret Jane Gregg 1846–1862

5 Henry Humphrey Gregg 1847–1940

6 William Adams Gregg 1850–?

7 Joseph Finlay Gregg 1853–1922

8 Daniel Mc Entosh Gregg Jr. 1859–1925

9 James Forster Gregg 1866–1947

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Birth

born in Pennsylvania worked in the Oil fields in Boston, Mass moved around as an oil worker owned home in Chicago 1900 census ed 837 sheet 16 line 82 listed as machinist 1920 Census Cook County, Illinois Chicago ed # 1607pg 1 Soundex g-125 line 1975 North Sawyer Avenue Chicago, Cook, Illinois Death certificate info died 8-9-1936 Died 78 yrs., 3 mos, 0 days Machinist, Premiere Printing Co. until 2-1932 - 40 years as a machinist lived at 5257 Roscoe Chicago, Cook, Illinois - 40 years Married at time of death Buried St. Joseph Cemetery in River Grove 8-12-1936 708-453-0184 Large family plot that is full North half of lot 30 block 9 section J big monument GIBSON Was burned in an oil fire in Venango PA in the late 1870s was hired to go Forbes Lithograph Co. in Chelsea, MASS because he asked asked the most money. Check both Venango and Chicago in 1900

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.

Census

1880 USA Census transcript - James Gibson - Household

Name	Race	Sex	Age	Relation	MC	YrsM	Occupation	BP	FBP	MBP
James Gibson	W	M	70	Head	M	-	Farmer	-	IRL	IRL
Martha Gregg	W	F	58	wife	M	-	Keeping House	IRL	IRL	-
Daniel Gibson	W	M	23	son	S	-	Oil Producer	PA	-	IRL
John Gibson	W	M	21	son	S	-	Oil Producer	PA	-	IRL
Samuel Richard (Dick) Gibson	W	M	19	son	S	-	At Home	PA	-	IRL

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

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

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John GibsonAge: 781858–1936

John Gibson has 10 first cousins recorded

Father's family (0)

Mother's family (10)

Parents John Baptist Louise Masson + Margaret Rose Gregg

Parents Daniel Mc Entosh Gregg Sr. + Sarah Jane Humphrey

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