Clara E. Potts 1860

Clara E. PottsAge: 661860–1926

Name: Clara E. Potts

Given names: Clara E.

Surname: Potts

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Birth

8 February 1860 27 27

Simsburg, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Australian History

1860

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 10 months)

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 22 months)

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

Australian History

1863 (Age 2)

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

Birth of a sister

16 June 1866 (Age 6)

Egremont Plain, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA

younger sister - Lillian Adele Potts

Australian History

1867 (Age 6)

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.

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

Australian History

1868 (Age 7)

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.

Australian History

1869 (Age 8)

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 11)

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.

Australian History

1873 (Age 12)

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

Australian History

1875 (Age 14)

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 paternal grandmother

20 December 1876 (Age 16)

Livingston, Columbia, New York, USA

paternal grandmother - Elizabeth "Betsey" Spickerman

Australian History

1878 (Age 17)

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

Australian History

1879 (Age 18)

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.

Australian History

1880 (Age 19)

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 21)

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

Australian History

1883 (Age 22)

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway

Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill

Marriage

Marcus E. Cooke - View family
11 February 1884 (Age 24)

Egremont, Massachusetts, USA

Death of a sister

27 December 1885 (Age 25)

Sheffield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA

elder sister - Ameila Potts

Australian History

1887 (Age 26)

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 son
#1

1889 (estimated) (Age 28)

son - Chester H Cooke

Australian History

1889 (Age 28)

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 29)

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.

Australian History

1891 (Age 30)

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 daughter
#2

March 1892 (Age 32)

daughter - Mabel Cooke

Australian History

1892 (Age 31)

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.

Australian History

1893 (Age 32)

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 daughter
#3

6 September 1894 (Age 34)

Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

daughter - Florence Marks Cooke

Australian History

1894 (Age 33)

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 34)

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 35)

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

Australian History

1897 (Age 36)

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 37)

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 38)

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 40)

Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Shared note: 1900 USA Census transcript - Marcus E. Cooke - Household

Name	Relation	Race	Sex	DOB	Age	MC	YrsM	ChB	ChL	BP	FBP	MBP
Marcus E. Cooke	Head	W	M	Nov 1849	50	M	16	-	-	NY	-	-
Clara E. Potts	wife	W	F	Feb 1860	40	M	16	4	3	CT	NY	-
Mabel Cooke	daughter	W	F	Mar 1892	8	S	-	-	-	-	NY	CT
Florence Marks Cooke	daughter	W	F	Sep 1894	5	S	-	-	-	CT	NY	CT
Chester H Cooke	son	W	M	Apr 1888	10	S	-	-	-	CT	NY	CT

Australian History

1900 (Age 39)

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 40)

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 sister

Lillian Adele Potts - View family
16 July 1902 (Age 42)

Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA

brother-in-law - Fred Andrews Warner

younger sister - Lillian Adele Potts

Australian History

1902 (Age 41)

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 42)

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 43)

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 father

11 July 1905 (Age 45)

Egremont Plain, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA

father - Herman Thorne Potts

Australian History

1906 (Age 45)

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea

Australian History

1908 (Age 47)

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 48)

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

Census

15 April 1910 (Age 50)

Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Shared note: 1910 USA Census transcript - Marcus E. Cooke - Household

Name	Relation	Sex	Race	Age	MC	YrsM	ChB	ChL	BP	FBP	MBP
Marcus E. Cooke	Head	M	W	60	M	26	-	-	CT	-	-
Clara G. Potts	wife	F	W	50	M	26	2	2	CT	NY	-
Chester H Cooke	son	M	W	21	S	-	-	-	CT	-	CT

Australian History

1910 (Age 49)

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

Australian History

1911 (Age 50)

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 51)

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 52)

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 52)

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

Australian History

1914 (Age 53)

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 54)

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

8 August 1916 (Age 56)

Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA

mother - Nancy J. Bacon

Australian History

1916 (Age 55)

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 56)

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 57)

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 58)

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.

Census

1 January 1920 (Age 59)

New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Shared note: 1920 USA Census transcript - Marcus E. Cooke - Household

Name	Relation	Sex	Age	MC	BP	FBP	MBP
Marcus E. Cooke	Head	M	70	M	-	-	-
Clara G. Potts	wife	F	59	M	CT	NY	-
Chester H Cooke	son	M	32	S	-	-	CT

Australian History

1920 (Age 59)

Note: The airline Qantas is founded

Australian History

1921 (Age 60)

Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament

Australian History

1922 (Age 61)

Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney

Australian History

1923 (Age 62)

Note: Vegemite is first produced

Australian History

1926 (Age 65)

Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held

Death

13 October 1926 (Age 66)

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father	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 mother	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 elder sister	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 herself	Clara E. Potts Birth 8 February 1860 27 27 Simsburg, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Death 13 October 1926 (Age 66) Loading...
6 years #3 younger sister	Lillian Adele Potts Birth 16 June 1866 33 33 Egremont Plain, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA Death yes Loading...

Family with Marcus E. Cooke - View family

husband	Marcus E. Cooke Birth November 1849 New York, USA Death yes Loading...
10 years herself	Clara E. Potts Birth 8 February 1860 27 27 Simsburg, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Death 13 October 1926 (Age 66) Loading...
	Marriage: 11 February 1884 — Egremont, Massachusetts, USA
5 years #1 son	Chester H Cooke Birth 1889 (estimated) 39 28 Death yes Loading...
3 years #2 daughter	Mabel Cooke Birth March 1892 42 32 Loading...
3 years #3 daughter	Florence Marks Cooke Birth 6 September 1894 44 34 Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Death yes Loading...

Clara E. Potts has 13 first cousins recorded

Father's family (13)

Parents Robert Siddell + Maria Potts

1 Mary Siddell 1847–?

2 George Abram Siddell 1848–1933

3 Sarah Siddell 1849–?

4 Isabella "Belle" Siddell 1852–?

5 Estella Siddell 1854–1907

6 Herman Potts Siddell 1857–1908

7 Maria Romelia Siddell 1857–1858

Parents Robert Alvin Potts + Elizabeth Reynold

1 Cora A. Potts 1856–?

2 Maria E Potts 1859–?

3 Emma Estella Potts 1866–?

4 George Robert Potts 1870–?

Parents George B Lee + Elizabeth Jane Potts

1 Grace Lee 1862–?

2 Robert Lee 1863–?

Mother's family (0)

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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 - Marcus E. Cooke - Household

Name	Relation	Race	Sex	DOB	Age	MC	YrsM	ChB	ChL	BP	FBP	MBP
Marcus E. Cooke	Head	W	M	Nov 1849	50	M	16	-	-	NY	-	-
Clara E. Potts	wife	W	F	Feb 1860	40	M	16	4	3	CT	NY	-
Mabel Cooke	daughter	W	F	Mar 1892	8	S	-	-	-	-	NY	CT
Florence Marks Cooke	daughter	W	F	Sep 1894	5	S	-	-	-	CT	NY	CT
Chester H Cooke	son	W	M	Apr 1888	10	S	-	-	-	CT	NY	CT

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 - Marcus E. Cooke - Household

Name	Relation	Sex	Race	Age	MC	YrsM	ChB	ChL	BP	FBP	MBP
Marcus E. Cooke	Head	M	W	60	M	26	-	-	CT	-	-
Clara G. Potts	wife	F	W	50	M	26	2	2	CT	NY	-
Chester H Cooke	son	M	W	21	S	-	-	-	CT	-	CT

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'

Australian History

Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed.

Australian History

(08 AUG) Battle of Amiens

Australian History

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.

Census

1920 USA Census transcript - Marcus E. Cooke - Household

Name	Relation	Sex	Age	MC	BP	FBP	MBP
Marcus E. Cooke	Head	M	70	M	-	-	-
Clara G. Potts	wife	F	59	M	CT	NY	-
Chester H Cooke	son	M	32	S	-	-	CT

Australian History

The airline Qantas is founded

Australian History

Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament

Australian History

The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney

Australian History

Vegemite is first produced

Australian History

The first Miss Australia contest is held

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Clara E. PottsAge: 661860–1926

Clara E. Potts has 13 first cousins recorded

Father's family (13)

Parents Robert Siddell + Maria Potts

Parents Robert Alvin Potts + Elizabeth Reynold

Parents George B Lee + Elizabeth Jane Potts

Mother's family (0)

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