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George WiffenAge: 771819–1897

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George Wiffen
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Birth 5 December 1819
 Finchingfield, Essex, England

MarriageAnn Mumford - View family
yes
 

Australian History 1824 (Age 4)
 

Note: A penal colony is founded at Moreton Bay, now the city of Brisbane.
Note: Bathurst and Melville Islands are annexed.
Note: Permission granted to change the name of the continent from 'New Holland' to 'Australia'
Note: 1824-25 - Hume and Hovell expedition travels overland to Port Phillip Bay, discovers Murray River
Australian History 1825 (Age 5)
 

Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed.
Australian History 1828 (Age 8)
 

Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.
Australian History 1829 (Age 9)
 

Note: The whole of Australia is claimed as British territory. The settlement of Perth is founded. Swan River Colony is declared by Charles Fremantle for Britain.
Australian History 1830 (Age 10)
 

Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.
Australian History 1831 (Age 11)
 

Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Australian History 1832 (Age 12)
 

Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Australian History 1833 (Age 13)
 

Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History 1835 (Age 15)
 

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 16)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History 1838 (Age 18)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History 1839 (Age 19)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History 1840 (Age 20)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Australian History 1841 (Age 21)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 22)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 23)
 

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 25)
 

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 30)
 

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 31)
 

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 33)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History 1854 (Age 34)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 35)
 

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.
Birth of a daughter
#1		 1856 (Age 36)
 

daughter - Hannah Wiffen
Australian History 1856 (Age 36)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 37)
 

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.
Birth of a son
#2		 1858 (Age 38)
 

son - Thomas Wiffen
Australian History 1858 (Age 38)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Death of a son 1859 (Age 39)
 

son - Thomas Wiffen
Australian History 1859 (Age 39)
 

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
#3		 1860 (Age 40)
 

daughter - Susan Wiffen
Australian History 1860 (Age 40)
 

Note: John McDouall Stuart reaches the centre of the continent. South Australian border changed from 132 degrees E to 129 degrees E.
Death of a daughter 1861 (Age 41)
 

daughter - Susan Wiffen
Australian History 1861 (Age 41)
 

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 42)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Birth of a son
#4		 1863 (Age 43)
 

son - George Thomas Wiffen
Australian History 1863 (Age 43)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Birth of a son
#5		 18 October 1867 (Age 47)
 Bellarine, Victoria, Australia

son - Samuel James Wiffen
Australian History 1867 (Age 47)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Australian History 1868 (Age 48)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Birth of a son
#6		 1869 (Age 49)
 

son - Charles Henry Wiffen
Australian History 1869 (Age 49)
 

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 52)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 53)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History 1875 (Age 55)
 

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 58)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 59)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 60)
 

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 62)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 63)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Australian History 1887 (Age 67)
 

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 69)
 

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 70)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History 1891 (Age 71)
 

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 72)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Birth of a granddaughter
#1		 1893 (Age 73)
 Mildura, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Mary Dorothy Wiffen
Australian History 1893 (Age 73)
 

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 74)
 

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 75)
 

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 76)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History 1897 (Age 77)
 

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.
Death 31 August 1897 (Age 77)
 Bellarine, Victoria, Australia

Family with Ann Mumford - View family
himself
George Wiffen

Birth 5 December 1819  Finchingfield, Essex, England

Death 31 August 1897 (Age 77)  Bellarine, Victoria, Australia

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9 years
wife
Ann Mumford

Birth 1829  Essex, England

Death 1908 (Age 79)  Essendon, Victoria, Australia

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Marriage: yes
#1 daughter
Hannah Wiffen

Birth 1856 36 27  

Death yes  

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2 years
#2 son
Thomas Wiffen

Birth 1858 38 29  

Death 1859 (Age 12 months)  

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#3 daughter
Sarah Wiffen
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#4 daughter
Jane Wiffen
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#5 daughter
Susan Wiffen

Birth 1860 40 31  

Death 1861 (Age 12 months)  

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3 years
#6 son
George Thomas Wiffen

Birth 1863 43 34  

Death 1943 (Age 80)  

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5 years
#7 son
Samuel James Wiffen

Birth 18 October 1867 47 38  Bellarine, Victoria, Australia

Death yes  

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14 months
#8 son
Charles Henry Wiffen

Birth 1869 49 40  

Death 1944 (Age 75)  

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