Birth | 5 February 1872 32 27 Bundella, New South Wales, Australia Address: Premer Station |
Australian History | 1872 Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
Australian History | 1873 (Age 10 months) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
Australian History | 1875 (Age 2) 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 maternal grandmother | 1877 (Age 4) North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
maternal grandmother -
Ann Sarah Hayhoe
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Death of a paternal grandmother | 22 March 1878 (Age 6) Liverpool St, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
paternal grandmother -
Hannah Anne Lawson
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Australian History | 1878 (Age 5) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
Birth of a brother | 23 December 1879 (Age 7) Bundella, New South Wales, Australia
younger brother -
Dudley Gilford Bayly
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Australian History | 1879 (Age 6) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
Australian History | 1880 (Age 7) 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 9) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
Australian History | 1883 (Age 10) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
Australian History | 1887 (Age 14) 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 brother | 1889 (Age 16)
younger brother -
Linden Clarence Bayly
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Australian History | 1889 (Age 16) 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 17) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
Birth of a sister | 1891 (Age 18)
younger sister -
Prosperine Amy Bayly
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Australian History | 1891 (Age 18) 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 19) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
Australian History | 1893 (Age 20) 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 21) 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 22) 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 23) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
Australian History | 1897 (Age 24) 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 25) 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 26) 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 27) 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 28) 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 29) 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 30) 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 31) 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 33) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
Marriage | Mary Ellen Buckley - View family 29 April 1908 (Age 36) Mullaley, New South Wales, Australia Address: "Garawilla Station" |
Australian History | 1908 (Age 35) Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead |
Birth of a son #1 | 5 February 1909 (Age 37) Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia
son -
Gordon James Bayly
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Australian History | 1909 (Age 36) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
Australian History | 1910 (Age 37) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
Birth of a son #2 | 18 March 1911 (Age 39) Coolah, New South Wales, Australia
son -
John Lawrence Bayly
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Birth of a daughter #3 | 18 March 1911 (Age 39)
daughter -
Marjery Mary Bayly
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Australian History | 1911 (Age 38) 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. |
Birth of a daughter #4 | 1912 (Age 39) Coolah, New South Wales, Australia
daughter -
Laura Maud Bayly
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Australian History | 1912 (Age 39) 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 40) 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 40) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
Australian History | 1914 (Age 41) 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. |
Birth of a son #5 | 11 April 1915 (Age 43) Coolah, New South Wales, Australia
son -
Aubrey Nicholas Bayly
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Marriage of parents | View family 29 May 1915 (Age 43) Quirindi, New South Wales, Australia
father -
Clarence Paget Bayly
mother -
Amy Pearson
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Australian History | 1915 (Age 42) 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 |
Death of a mother | 17 December 1916 (Age 44) Coolah, New South Wales, Australia
mother -
Amy Pearson
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Australian History | 1916 (Age 43) 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 |
Birth of a son #6 | 26 March 1917 (Age 45) Coolah, New South Wales, Australia
son -
Leslie Douglas Bayly
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Australian History | 1917 (Age 44) 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 45) 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 46) 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 son #7 | 1 January 1920 (Age 47) Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia
son -
Vincent Walter Bayly
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Australian History | 1920 (Age 47) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
Australian History | 1921 (Age 48) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
Australian History | 1922 (Age 49) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
Australian History | 1923 (Age 50) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
Death of a father | 10 January 1926 (Age 53) Rookwood, New South Wales, Australia
father -
Clarence Paget Bayly
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Birth of a son #8 | 13 September 1926 (Age 54) Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia
son -
Dudley Marcus Bayly
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Australian History | 1926 (Age 53) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
Australian History | 1927 (Age 54) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
Australian History | 1928 (Age 55) 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 56) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
Australian History | 1930 (Age 57) 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 58) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
Australian History | 1932 (Age 59) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
Australian History | 1933 (Age 60) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
Death of a half-brother | 14 April 1934 (Age 62) Rookwood, New South Wales, Australia
half-brother -
John T Price
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Australian History | 1936 (Age 63) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
Australian History | 1937 (Age 64) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
Australian History | 1938 (Age 65) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
Australian History | 1939 (Age 66) 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 |
Death of a sister | 1940 (Age 67) Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia
younger sister -
Prosperine Amy Bayly
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Australian History | 1940 (Age 67) 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 68) 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. |
Death of a brother | 1942 (Age 69) Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia
elder brother -
Andrew Bayly
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Australian History | 1942 (Age 69) 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. |
Death of a son | 14 May 1943 (Age 71) Queensland, Australia
son -
Aubrey Nicholas Bayly
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Australian History | 1943 (Age 70) 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 71) 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 72) 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 73) 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. |
Australian History | 1948 (Age 75) Note: Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly. Note: Australia becomes a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. |
Australian History | 1949 (Age 76) Note: Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins Note: All indigenous ex-servicemen and any Indigenous Australians who are eligible to vote in State Elections (NSW, VIC, SA and TAS) are given an unrestricted right to vote in Federal Elections. Note: The Nationality and Citizenship Act is passed. Rather than being identified as subjects of Britain, the Act established Australian citizenship for people who met eligibility requirements. Note: Menzies returns to power as leader of the new Liberal Party Menzies Government. |
Australian History | 1950 (Age 77) Note: 1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea. Note: Voters reject a referendum to change the Constitution to allow the Menzies Government to ban the Communist Party |
Australian History | 1951 (Age 78) Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand |
Death of a brother | 1952 (Age 79)
elder brother -
Alexander Bayly
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Australian History | 1952 (Age 79) Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia. |
Death of a half-sister | 19 May 1954 (Age 82) Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia
half-sister -
Elizabeth Mary Price
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Australian History | 1954 (Age 81) Note: Elizabeth II and Prince Philip make a royal visit; the Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects, leading to the Petrov Affair and another split in the Labor Party |
Australian History | 1955 (Age 82) Note: Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement Note: Australia becomes involved in Malayan Insurgence Note: Hotels in New South Wales no longer have to close at 6 p.m., ending the 'six o'clock swill' |
Australian History | 1956 (Age 83) Note: Television in Australia is launched. Note: Melbourne holds the Olympics Note: performing artist Barry Humphries introduces Edna Everage to the Australian stage |
Australian History | 1957 (Age 84) Note: The song 'Wild One' makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts. Note: Slim Dusty's Australian country music hit Pub With No Beer becomes the first Australian song to attain international chart success. |
Death of a brother | 1960 (Age 87)
younger brother -
Linden Clarence Bayly
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Australian History | 1962 (Age 89) Note: Robert Menzies' Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that all Indigenous Australians should have the right to enrol and vote at federal elections, removing remaining restrictions applying in QLD, WA and NT. Note: Malayan Insurgence ends |
Death | 17 April 1963 (Age 91) Sutherland, New South Wales, Australia Address: 76-78 Flora Street |
Family with parents - View family |
father |
Clarence Paget Bayly
Birth 5 June 1839 33 22 Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia Death 10 January 1926 (Age 86) Age: 87 yrs. Rookwood, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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5 years mother |
Amy Pearson
Birth 15 March 1844 27 19 Lochinvar, New South Wales, Australia Death 17 December 1916 (Age 72) Coolah, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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Civil marriage: 29 May 1915 — Quirindi, New South Wales, Australia |
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-47 years #1 elder brother |
Alexander Bayly
Birth 1868 28 23 Death 1952 (Age 84) Loading...
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2 years #2 elder brother |
Andrew Bayly
Birth 1870 30 25 Death 1942 (Age 72) Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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2 years #3 himself |
John Nicholas Bayly
Birth 5 February 1872 32 27 Bundella, New South Wales, Australia Death 17 April 1963 (Age 91) Sutherland, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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8 years #4 younger brother |
Dudley Gilford Bayly
Birth 23 December 1879 40 35 Bundella, New South Wales, Australia Death 5 January 1970 (Age 90) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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9 years #5 younger brother |
Linden Clarence Bayly
Birth 1889 49 44 Death 1960 (Age 71) Loading...
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2 years #6 younger sister |
Prosperine Amy Bayly
Birth 1891 51 46 Death 1940 (Age 49) Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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Mother’s family with John Price - View family |
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mother |
Amy Pearson
Birth 15 March 1844 27 19 Lochinvar, New South Wales, Australia Death 17 December 1916 (Age 72) Coolah, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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Marriage: March 1861 |
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7 months #1 half-brother |
John T Price
Birth 22 September 1861 17 Cooyal, New South Wales, Australia Death 14 April 1934 (Age 72) Rookwood, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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21 months #2 half-sister |
Elizabeth Mary Price
Birth 16 June 1863 19 Munmurra River, New South Wales, Australia Death 19 May 1954 (Age 90) Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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Family with Mary Ellen Buckley - View family |
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John Nicholas Bayly
Birth 5 February 1872 32 27 Bundella, New South Wales, Australia Death 17 April 1963 (Age 91) Sutherland, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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14 years wife |
Mary Ellen Buckley
Birth 1886 45 28 Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia Death 31 January 1965 (Age 79) Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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Marriage: 29 April 1908 — Mullaley, New South Wales, Australia |
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9 months #1 son |
Gordon James Bayly
Birth 5 February 1909 37 23 Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia Death 14 September 1989 (Age 80) Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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2 years #2 son |
John Lawrence Bayly
Birth 18 March 1911 39 25 Coolah, New South Wales, Australia Death 3 March 1982 (Age 70) Age: 71 yrs. North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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#3 daughter |
Marjery Mary Bayly
Birth 18 March 1911 39 25 Death 10 September 1982 (Age 71) Fairfield, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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4 years #4 son |
Aubrey Nicholas Bayly
Birth 11 April 1915 43 29 Coolah, New South Wales, Australia Death 14 May 1943 (Age 28) Queensland, Australia Loading...
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23 months #5 son |
Leslie Douglas Bayly
Birth 26 March 1917 45 31 Coolah, New South Wales, Australia Death 18 December 1989 (Age 72) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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3 years #6 son |
Vincent Walter Bayly
Birth 1 January 1920 47 34 Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia Death 18 April 1993 (Age 73) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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7 years #7 son |
Dudley Marcus Bayly
Birth 13 September 1926 54 40 Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia Death 31 December 2000 (Age 74) Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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-15 years #8 daughter |
Laura Maud Bayly
Birth 1912 39 26 Coolah, New South Wales, Australia Death 25 May 2002 (Age 90) Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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