Henrietta Mary ToomathAge: 831864–1947
- Name
- Henrietta Mary Toomath
- Given names
- Henrietta Mary
- Surname
- Toomath
| Birth | 1864 32 34 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Birth of a brother | 1867 (Age 3) Kilmore, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Francis Stuart Toomath
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| Australian History | 1867 (Age 3) Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. |
| Birth of a brother | 1868 (Age 4) Yea, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Herbert Stewart Toomath
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| Australian History | 1868 (Age 4) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
| Birth of a brother | 1869 (Age 5) Yea, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
William Andrew Toomath
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| Death of a brother | 1869 (Age 5) Yea, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Herbert Stewart Toomath
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| Australian History | 1869 (Age 5) Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. |
| Birth of a sister | 1871 (Age 7) Alexandra, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Emily Fanny Margaret Toomath
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| Birth of a sister | 1872 (Age 8) Alexandra, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Irene Kathlene Toomath
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| Australian History | 1872 (Age 8) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Australian History | 1873 (Age 9) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Australian History | 1875 (Age 11) 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 sister | 5 January 1876 (Age 12) Kilmore, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Ilma Georgiana May Toomath
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| Australian History | 1878 (Age 14) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1879 (Age 15) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Birth of a brother | 8 August 1880 (Age 16) Kilmore, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Harold Thornton Toomath
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| Australian History | 1880 (Age 16) 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 sister | 1881 (Age 17) Kilmore, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Ada Winifred Toomath
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| Australian History | 1882 (Age 18) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 19) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 23) 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 25) 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 26) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 27) 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 28) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 29) 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 30) 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 31) 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 32) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 33) 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 34) 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 35) 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 36) 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 37) 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 38) 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 39) 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 40) 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 42) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 44) 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 45) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 46) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 47) 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 48) 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 49) 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 49) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Death of a father | 23 January 1914 (Age 50) Armadale, Victoria, Australia
father -
Rev. Andrew Toomath
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| Death of a brother | 26 February 1914 (Age 50) Malvern, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
William Andrew Toomath
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| Australian History | 1914 (Age 50) 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 51) 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 52) 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 53) 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 54) 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. |
| Residence | 1919 (Age 55) Geelong North, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1919 (Age 55) 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 56) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Death of a brother | January 1921 (Age 57) Yalgoo, Western Australia, Australia
younger brother -
Harold Thornton Toomath
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| Australian History | 1921 (Age 57) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 58) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 59) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Occupation | Clerk 1924 (Age 60) |
| Residence | 1924 (Age 60) 11 Pental Road, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 62) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 63) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 64) 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 65) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 66) 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 67) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 68) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1933 (Age 69) 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 72) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | 1937 (Age 73) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 74) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 75) Note: (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government Note: (September) Australia enters the Second World War following the German Invasion of Poland. The 2nd Australian Imperial Force is raised. Note: The first flight is made by an Australian-made warplane, the Wirraway Note: Victoria is devastated by the Black Friday bushfires |
| Australian History | 1940 (Age 76) Note: A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin Note: Fascist Italy enters war, Royal Australian Navy engages Italian Navy in the early stages of the Battle of the Mediterranean. |
| Australian History | 1941 (Age 77) Note: 3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa. Note: Apr-Aug, Australian garrison (Rats of Tobruk) halt advance of Hitler's panzers for the first time during the Siege of Tobruk. Note: Menzies resigns and John Curtin becomes Prime Minister in the Curtin Government of 1941-45. |
| Australian History | 1942 (Age 78) Note: Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese Note: 1942-43 - Japanese air raids - almost 100 attacks against sites in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland. Note: The Royal Australian Navy and 6th and 7th Divisions of 2nd AIF are recalled from Mediterranean Theatre to participate in the anticipated Battle of Australia. Note: 1942-3 - Sparrow Force engages in guerilla campaign in Battle of Timor Note: Battle of the Coral Sea - United States and Royal Australian Navy halt advance of the Japanese towards Port Moresby (Australian Territory of Papua) Note: Battle of Kokoda Trail - Australian soldiers halt Japanese march on Port Moresby Note: Aug-Sep, Australian forces inflict the first defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle of Milne Bay. Note: Jul-Nov, Australia's 9th Division plays crucial role in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein, which turned the North Africa Campaign in favour of the Allies. Note: National daylight saving is introduced as a war time measure. Note: The UK Statute of Westminster is formally adopted by Australia. The Statute formally grants Australia the right to pass laws that conflict with UK laws. |
| Australian History | 1943 (Age 79) Note: Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary. Note: 2,815 Australian Pows die constructing Japan's Burma-Thailand Railway Note: 1943-44 - Australian forces engage Japan in New Guinea, Wau, and the Huon peninsula. |
| Australian History | 1944 (Age 80) Note: Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW. Note: Japanese inflict Sandakan Death March on 2,000 Australian and British prisoners of war - only 6 survive. The single worst war crime perpetrated against Australians. Note: Australian forces battle Japanese garrisons from Borneo to Bougainville. Note: The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is introduced, providing subsidised medicine to all Australians |
| Australian History | 1945 (Age 81) Note: the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader. Note: Australian forces lead Battle of Borneo Note: (7 May) Nazi Germany surrenders Note: (July) Prime Minister Curtin dies and is replaced by Ben Chifley and the Chifley Labor Government Note: (1 August) Japan Surrenders Note: Australia becomes a founding member of the United Nations Note: The Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race is held for the first time |
| Australian History | 1946 (Age 82) Note: Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme Note: Norman Makin, is voted in as the first President of the United Nations Security Council. |
| Death | 1947 (Age 83) Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Rev. Andrew Toomath
Birth 1832 Fermanagh, Cork, Ireland Death 23 January 1914 (Age 82) Armadale, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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-2 years mother |
Emily Dobson
Birth 1830 (estimated) Death yes Loading...
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Marriage: 26 February 1861 — Buninyong, Victoria, Australia |
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9 months #1 elder brother |
Arthur James Toomath
Birth 1 December 1861 29 31 Carlton, Victoria, Australia Death 10 December 1862 (Age 12 months) Staffordshire Reef, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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13 months #2 elder brother |
Frederick Thomas Toomath
Birth 1863 31 33 Buninyong, Victoria, Australia Death 29 July 1863 Buninyong, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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1 year #3 herself |
Henrietta Mary Toomath
Birth 1864 32 34 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Death 1947 (Age 83) Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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3 years #4 younger brother |
Francis Stuart Toomath
Birth 1867 35 37 Kilmore, Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...
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1 year #5 younger brother |
Herbert Stewart Toomath
Birth 1868 36 38 Yea, Victoria, Australia Death 1869 (Age 12 months) Yea, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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1 year #6 younger brother |
William Andrew Toomath
Birth 1869 37 39 Yea, Victoria, Australia Death 26 February 1914 (Age 45) Malvern, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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2 years #7 younger sister |
Emily Fanny Margaret Toomath
Birth 1871 39 41 Alexandra, Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...
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1 year #8 younger sister |
Irene Kathlene Toomath
Birth 1872 40 42 Alexandra, Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...
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9 years #9 younger brother |
Harold Thornton Toomath
Birth 8 August 1880 48 50 Kilmore, Victoria, Australia Death January 1921 (Age 40) Yalgoo, Western Australia, Australia Loading...
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-5 years #10 younger sister |
Ilma Georgiana May Toomath
Birth 5 January 1876 44 46 Kilmore, Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...
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5 years #11 younger sister |
Ada Winifred Toomath
Birth 1881 49 51 Kilmore, Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...
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Henrietta Mary Toomath has 2 first cousins recorded
Father's family (2)
Parents John Henry Potts + Mary Ann Toomath
Mother's family (0)
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