William Andrew ToomathAge: 451869–1914
- Name
- William Andrew Toomath
- Given names
- William Andrew
- Surname
- Toomath
| Birth | 1869 37 39 Yea, Victoria, Australia |
| Death of a brother | 1869 Yea, Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
Herbert Stewart Toomath
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| Australian History | 1869 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 2) Alexandra, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Emily Fanny Margaret Toomath
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| Birth of a sister | 1872 (Age 3) Alexandra, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Irene Kathlene Toomath
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| Australian History | 1872 (Age 3) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Australian History | 1873 (Age 4) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Australian History | 1875 (Age 6) 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 7) Kilmore, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Ilma Georgiana May Toomath
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| Australian History | 1878 (Age 9) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1879 (Age 10) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Birth of a brother | 8 August 1880 (Age 11) Kilmore, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Harold Thornton Toomath
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| Australian History | 1880 (Age 11) 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 12) Kilmore, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Ada Winifred Toomath
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| Australian History | 1882 (Age 13) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 14) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 18) 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 20) 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 21) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 22) 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 23) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 24) 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 25) 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 26) 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 27) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 28) 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 29) 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 30) 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 31) 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 32) 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 33) 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 34) 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 35) 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 37) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 39) 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 40) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 41) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 42) 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 43) 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 44) 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 44) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Death of a father | 23 January 1914 (Age 45) Armadale, Victoria, Australia
father -
Rev. Andrew Toomath
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| Australian History | 1914 (Age 45) 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. |
| Death | 26 February 1914 (Age 45) Malvern, Victoria, Australia Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954) (about) Monday 2 March 1914 |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Rev. Andrew Toomath
Birth 1832 Fermanagh, Cork, Ireland Death 23 January 1914 (Age 82) Armadale, Victoria, Australia |
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-2 years mother |
Emily Dobson
Birth 1830 (estimated) Death yes |
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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 |
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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 |
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1 year #3 elder sister |
Henrietta Mary Toomath
Birth 1864 32 34 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Death 1947 (Age 83) Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia |
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3 years #4 elder brother |
Francis Stuart Toomath
Birth 1867 35 37 Kilmore, Victoria, Australia Death yes |
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1 year #5 elder brother |
Herbert Stewart Toomath
Birth 1868 36 38 Yea, Victoria, Australia Death 1869 (Age 12 months) Yea, Victoria, Australia |
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1 year #6 himself |
William Andrew Toomath
Birth 1869 37 39 Yea, Victoria, Australia Death 26 February 1914 (Age 45) Malvern, Victoria, Australia |
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2 years #7 younger sister |
Emily Fanny Margaret Toomath
Birth 1871 39 41 Alexandra, Victoria, Australia Death yes |
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1 year #8 younger sister |
Irene Kathlene Toomath
Birth 1872 40 42 Alexandra, Victoria, Australia Death yes |
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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 |
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-5 years #10 younger sister |
Ilma Georgiana May Toomath
Birth 5 January 1876 44 46 Kilmore, Victoria, Australia Death yes |
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5 years #11 younger sister |
Ada Winifred Toomath
Birth 1881 49 51 Kilmore, Victoria, Australia Death yes |
William Andrew 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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