Joseph Finlay GreggAge: 681853–1922
- Name
- Joseph Finlay Gregg
- Given names
- Joseph Finlay
- Surname
- Gregg
| Birth | 11 June 1853 34 30 Cherrytree, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Australian History | 1853 Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo |
| Australian History | 1854 (Age 6 months) Note: The Eureka Stockade |
| Australian History | 1855 (Age 18 months) 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 2) Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania. |
| Australian History | 1857 (Age 3) 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 4) Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph. Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote. |
| Birth of a brother | 5 October 1859 (Age 6) Cherrytree, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA
younger brother -
Daniel Mc Entosh Gregg Jr.
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| Australian History | 1859 (Age 5) 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 6) 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 7) Note: The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs. Note: skiing in Australia introduced by Norwegians in the Snowy Mountains goldrush town of Kiandra |
| Death of a sister | 22 October 1862 (Age 9)
elder sister -
Margaret Jane Gregg
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| Birth of a brother | 24 October 1862 (Age 9) Grove City, Pennsylvania, USA
younger brother -
David Masson Gregg
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| Australian History | 1862 (Age 8) Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E. |
| Australian History | 1863 (Age 9) Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales. |
| Birth of a brother | 18 February 1866 (Age 12) Cherrytree, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA
younger brother -
James Forster Gregg
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| Marriage of a sister | Harriet Rose Gregg - View family 25 April 1866 (Age 12)
brother-in-law -
William H. Forster
elder sister -
Harriet Rose Gregg
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| Australian History | 1867 (Age 13) Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. |
| Marriage of a brother | Henry Humphrey Gregg - View family 18 November 1868 (Age 15)
elder brother -
Henry Humphrey Gregg
sister-in-law -
Nancy Pearson
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| Australian History | 1868 (Age 14) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
| Australian History | 1869 (Age 15) Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. |
| Marriage | Mary M. Stevenson - View family 26 December 1872 (Age 19) |
| Australian History | 1872 (Age 18) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Australian History | 1873 (Age 19) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Australian History | 1875 (Age 21) Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives. Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed. |
| Marriage of a brother | William Adams Gregg - View family 3 February 1876 (Age 22)
elder brother -
William Adams Gregg
sister-in-law -
Margaret S. Hayes
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| Australian History | 1878 (Age 24) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1879 (Age 25) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 26) Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work. |
| Marriage of a brother | Daniel Mc Entosh Gregg Jr. - View family 29 June 1882 (Age 29)
younger brother -
Daniel Mc Entosh Gregg Jr.
sister-in-law -
Evaline Lydia Emery
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| Australian History | 1882 (Age 28) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 29) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Marriage of a brother | David Masson Gregg - View family 14 May 1887 (Age 33) Grove City, Pennsylvania, USA
younger brother -
David Masson Gregg
sister-in-law -
Sarah Jane Dunkerly
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| Australian History | 1887 (Age 33) 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. |
| Death of a father | 19 December 1889 (Age 36) Grove City, Pennsylvania, USA
father -
Daniel Mc Entosh Gregg Sr.
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| Australian History | 1889 (Age 35) 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 36) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 37) 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 38) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 39) 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. |
| Marriage of a brother | James Forster Gregg - View family 30 October 1894 (Age 41)
younger brother -
James Forster Gregg
sister-in-law -
L. Annetta Gill
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| Australian History | 1894 (Age 40) 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 41) 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 42) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 43) 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 44) 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 45) 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 46) 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 |
| Death of a mother | 27 November 1901 (Age 48) Grove City, Pennsylvania, USA
mother -
Sarah Jane Humphrey
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| Australian History | 1901 (Age 47) 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 48) 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 49) 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 50) 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 52) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 54) 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 55) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 56) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 57) 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 58) 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 59) 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 59) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 60) 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 61) 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 62) 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 63) 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 64) 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 65) 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 66) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 67) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 68) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Death | 20 April 1922 (Age 68) |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Birth 1819 51 Altrincham, Cheshire, England Death 19 December 1889 (Age 70) Grove City, Pennsylvania, USA |
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4 years mother |
Birth May 1823 Catskil, New York, USA Death 27 November 1901 (Age 78) Grove City, Pennsylvania, USA |
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Marriage: 22 June 1842 — Mercer, Pennsylvania, USA |
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20 years #1 younger brother |
David Masson Gregg
Birth 24 October 1862 43 39 Grove City, Pennsylvania, USA Death 1934 (Age 71) Grove City, Pennsylvania, USA |
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-20 years #2 elder sister |
Harriet Rose Gregg
Birth 6 April 1843 24 19 Cherrytree, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA Death yes |
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2 years #3 elder brother |
Robert John Gregg
Birth 4 April 1845 26 21 Cherrytree, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA Death 19 August 1847 (Age 2) |
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14 months #4 elder sister |
Margaret Jane Gregg
Birth 3 June 1846 27 23 Cherrytree, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA Death 22 October 1862 (Age 16) |
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16 months #5 elder brother |
Henry Humphrey Gregg
Birth 16 October 1847 28 24 Cherrytree, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA Death 1940 (Age 92) |
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2 years #6 elder brother |
William Adams Gregg
Birth 31 March 1850 31 26 Cherrytree, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA Death yes |
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3 years #7 himself |
Joseph Finlay Gregg
Birth 11 June 1853 34 30 Cherrytree, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA Death 20 April 1922 (Age 68) |
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6 years #8 younger brother |
Birth 5 October 1859 40 36 Cherrytree, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA Death 10 February 1925 (Age 65) |
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6 years #9 younger brother |
James Forster Gregg
Birth 18 February 1866 47 42 Cherrytree, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA Death 1947 (Age 80) |
| Family with Mary M. Stevenson - View family |
| himself |
Joseph Finlay Gregg
Birth 11 June 1853 34 30 Cherrytree, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA Death 20 April 1922 (Age 68) |
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-9 months wife |
Mary M. Stevenson
Birth 29 August 1852 Death 17 January 1934 (Age 81) |
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Marriage: 26 December 1872 |