Nancy J. Bacon 1833

Nancy J. BaconAge: 831833–1916

Name: Nancy J. Bacon

Given names: Nancy J.

Surname: Bacon

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Birth

10 January 1833

Massachusetts, USA

Australian History

1833

Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.

Australian History

1835 (Age 23 months)

Note: John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner establish a settlement at Port Phillip, now the city of Melbourne.

Note: William Wentworth establishes Australian Patriotic Association (Australia's first political party) to demand democracy for New South Wales.

Australian History

1836 (Age 2)

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.

Australian History

1838 (Age 4)

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.

Australian History

1839 (Age 5)

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.

Australian History

1840 (Age 6)

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.

Australian History

1841 (Age 7)

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.

Australian History

1842 (Age 8)

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.

Australian History

1843 (Age 9)

Note: Australia's first parliamentary elections held for the New South Wales Legislative Council (though voting rights are restricted to males of certain wealth or property).

Australian History

1845 (Age 11)

Note: The ship Cataraqui is wrecked off King Island in Bass Strait. It is Australia's worst civil maritime disaster, with 406 lives lost.

Note: Copper is discovered at Burra in South Australia.

Australian History

1850 (Age 16)

Note: Western Australia becomes a penal colony.

Note: Australian Colonies Government Act [1850] grants representative constitutions to New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania, colonies set about writing constitutions which produced democratically progressive parliaments

Note: Australia's first university, the University of Sydney, is founded.

Australian History

1851 (Age 17)

Note: Victoria separates from New South Wales.

Note: The Victorian gold rush starts when gold is found at Summerhill Creek and Ballarat.

Note: Forest Creek Monster Meeting of miners at Chewton near Castlemaine

Australian History

1853 (Age 19)

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo

Australian History

1854 (Age 20)

Note: The Eureka Stockade

Marriage

Herman Thorne Potts - View family
8 November 1855 (Age 22)

Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA

Australian History

1855 (Age 21)

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 22)

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.

Birth of a daughter
#1

10 September 1857 (Age 24)

Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

daughter - Ameila Potts

Australian History

1857 (Age 23)

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 24)

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.

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

Australian History

1859 (Age 25)

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 daughter
#2

8 February 1860 (Age 27)

Simsburg, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

daughter - Clara E. Potts

Australian History

1860 (Age 26)

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 27)

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 28)

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

Australian History

1863 (Age 29)

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

Birth of a daughter
#3

16 June 1866 (Age 33)

Egremont Plain, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA

daughter - Lillian Adele Potts

Australian History

1867 (Age 33)

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.

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

Australian History

1868 (Age 34)

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.

Australian History

1869 (Age 35)

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

Australian History

1872 (Age 38)

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.

Australian History

1873 (Age 39)

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

Australian History

1875 (Age 41)

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 44)

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

Australian History

1879 (Age 45)

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.

Australian History

1880 (Age 46)

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 48)

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

Australian History

1883 (Age 49)

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway

Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill

Marriage of a daughter

Clara E. Potts - View family
11 February 1884 (Age 51)

Egremont, Massachusetts, USA

son-in-law - Marcus E. Cooke

daughter - Clara E. Potts

Death of a daughter

27 December 1885 (Age 52)

Sheffield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA

daughter - Ameila Potts

Australian History

1887 (Age 53)

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 grandson
#1

1889 (estimated) (Age 55)

grandson - Chester H Cooke

Australian History

1889 (Age 55)

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 56)

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.

Australian History

1891 (Age 57)

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

Birth of a granddaughter
#2

March 1892 (Age 59)

granddaughter - Mabel Cooke

Australian History

1892 (Age 58)

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.

Australian History

1893 (Age 59)

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 granddaughter
#3

6 September 1894 (Age 61)

Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

granddaughter - Florence Marks Cooke

Australian History

1894 (Age 60)

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 61)

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 62)

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

Australian History

1897 (Age 63)

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 64)

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 65)

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.

Census

1 June 1900 (Age 67)

Egremont Town, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA

Shared note: 1900 USA Census transcript - Herman Thorne Potts - Household

Name	Relation	Race	Sex	DOB	Age	MC	YrsM	ChB	ChL	BP	FBP	MBP
Herman Potts	Head	W	M	Jul 1831	67	M	44	-	-	NY	NY	NY
Nancy J. Bacon	wife	W	F	Jul 1832	67	M	44	3	2	MA	CT	MA
Lillian A Potts	daughter	W	F	Jul 1866	33	S	-	-	-	MA	NY	-

Australian History

1900 (Age 66)

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 67)

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

Marriage of a daughter

Lillian Adele Potts - View family
16 July 1902 (Age 69)

Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA

son-in-law - Fred Andrews Warner

daughter - Lillian Adele Potts

Australian History

1902 (Age 68)

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 69)

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 70)

Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital

Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government

Death of a husband

11 July 1905 (Age 72)

Egremont Plain, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA

husband - Herman Thorne Potts

Burial of a husband

13 July 1905 (Age 72)

South Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA

husband - Herman Thorne Potts

Birth of a grandson
#4

26 October 1906 (Age 73)

Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA

grandson - Ralph Potts Warner

Australian History

1906 (Age 72)

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea

Australian History

1908 (Age 74)

Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country

Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead

Birth of a grandson
#5

1909 (Age 75)

grandson - Carl H Warner

Australian History

1909 (Age 75)

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

Census

15 April 1910 (Age 77)

Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA

Shared note: 1910 USA Census transcript - Fred Andrews Warner - Household

Name	Relation	Sex	Age	MC	YrsM	ChB	ChL	BP	FBP	MBP
Fred Andrews Warner	Head	M	45	M	7	-	-	MA	-	-
Lillian Adele Potts	wife	F	43	M	7	2	2	MA	NY	MA
Leonard B Warner	son	M	19	S	-	-	-	-	MA	-
Ralph Potts Warner	son	M	3	S	-	-	-	MA	MA	MA
Carl H Warner	son	M	9m	S	-	-	-	-	MA	MA
Nancy J. Potts	Mother-In_Law	F	77	M	54	3	2	MA	-	-

Australian History

1910 (Age 76)

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

Birth of a grandson
#6

2 February 1911 (Age 78)

Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA

grandson - Kenneth Andrews Warner

Australian History

1911 (Age 77)

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 78)

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 79)

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 79)

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

Australian History

1914 (Age 80)

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 81)

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 82)

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

Death

8 August 1916 (Age 83)

Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA

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father	Andrew Bacon Death yes Loading...
mother	Betsy … Death yes Loading...
	Marriage: yes
#1 herself	Nancy J. Bacon Birth 10 January 1833 Massachusetts, USA Death 8 August 1916 (Age 83) Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA Loading...

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husband	Herman Thorne Potts Birth 15 July 1832 30 32 Livingston, Columbia, New York, USA Death 11 July 1905 (Age 72) Egremont Plain, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA Loading...
6 months herself	Nancy J. Bacon Birth 10 January 1833 Massachusetts, USA Death 8 August 1916 (Age 83) Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA Loading...
	Marriage: 8 November 1855 — Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
22 months #1 daughter	Ameila Potts Birth 10 September 1857 25 24 Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Death 27 December 1885 (Age 28) Sheffield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA Loading...
2 years #2 daughter	Clara E. Potts Birth 8 February 1860 27 27 Simsburg, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Death 13 October 1926 (Age 66) Loading...
6 years #3 daughter	Lillian Adele Potts Birth 16 June 1866 33 33 Egremont Plain, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA Death yes Loading...

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Australian History

The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.

Australian History

John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner establish a settlement at Port Phillip, now the city of Melbourne.

Australian History

Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.

Australian History

First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.

Australian History

Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.

Australian History

Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.

Australian History

New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.

Australian History

Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.

Australian History

Australia's first parliamentary elections held for the New South Wales Legislative Council (though voting rights are restricted to males of certain wealth or property).

Australian History

The ship Cataraqui is wrecked off King Island in Bass Strait. It is Australia's worst civil maritime disaster, with 406 lives lost.

Australian History

Western Australia becomes a penal colony.

Australian History

Victoria separates from New South Wales.

Australian History

Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo

Australian History

The Eureka Stockade

Australian History

The transportation of convicts to Norfolk Island ceases.

Australian History

Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.

Australian History

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.

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.

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.

Census

1900 USA Census transcript - Herman Thorne Potts - Household

Name	Relation	Race	Sex	DOB	Age	MC	YrsM	ChB	ChL	BP	FBP	MBP
Herman Potts	Head	W	M	Jul 1831	67	M	44	-	-	NY	NY	NY
Nancy J. Bacon	wife	W	F	Jul 1832	67	M	44	3	2	MA	CT	MA
Lillian A Potts	daughter	W	F	Jul 1866	33	S	-	-	-	MA	NY	-

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.

Census

1910 USA Census transcript - Fred Andrews Warner - Household

Name	Relation	Sex	Age	MC	YrsM	ChB	ChL	BP	FBP	MBP
Fred Andrews Warner	Head	M	45	M	7	-	-	MA	-	-
Lillian Adele Potts	wife	F	43	M	7	2	2	MA	NY	MA
Leonard B Warner	son	M	19	S	-	-	-	-	MA	-
Ralph Potts Warner	son	M	3	S	-	-	-	MA	MA	MA
Carl H Warner	son	M	9m	S	-	-	-	-	MA	MA
Nancy J. Potts	Mother-In_Law	F	77	M	54	3	2	MA	-	-

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'

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