Margaret Ann HudsonAge: 721852–1925
- Name
- Margaret Ann Hudson
- Given names
- Margaret Ann
- Surname
- Hudson
- Also known as
- Annie
Birth | 16 December 1852 28 23 Pembroke, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada |
Australian History | 1853 (Age 16 days) Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo |
Australian History | 1854 (Age 12 months) Note: The Eureka Stockade |
Australian History | 1855 (Age 2) 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 3) Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania. |
Australian History | 1857 (Age 4) 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 5) Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph. Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote. |
Australian History | 1859 (Age 6) 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. |
Australian History | 1860 (Age 7) 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 8) 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 9) Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E. |
Australian History | 1863 (Age 10) Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales. |
Birth of a sister | about 1864 (Age 11) Chalk River, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
younger sister -
Agnes Hudson
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Australian History | 1867 (Age 14) Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. |
Australian History | 1868 (Age 15) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
Australian History | 1869 (Age 16) 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 19) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
Australian History | 1873 (Age 20) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
Australian History | 1875 (Age 22) 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 25) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
Marriage | Joseph Moreau - View family 1 February 1879 (Age 26) Pembroke, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada |
Australian History | 1879 (Age 26) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
Australian History | 1880 (Age 27) 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 29) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
Australian History | 1883 (Age 30) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
Birth of a daughter #1 | 24 August 1885 (Age 32) Chalk River, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
daughter -
Margaret Roseann Moreau
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Australian History | 1887 (Age 34) 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 36) 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 37) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
Australian History | 1891 (Age 38) 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 39) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
Australian History | 1893 (Age 40) 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 41) 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 42) 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 43) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
Australian History | 1897 (Age 44) 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 45) 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 46) 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 47) 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 |
Death of a husband | 15 November 1901 (Age 48) Ross Twp, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
husband -
Joseph Moreau
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Australian History | 1901 (Age 48) 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 49) 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 50) 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 51) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government |
Marriage of a daughter | Margaret Roseann Moreau - View family 17 December 1906 (Age 54) Ramsay Twp., Lanark, Ontario, Canada
son-in-law -
David Reid
daughter -
Margaret Roseann Moreau
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Australian History | 1906 (Age 53) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
Death of a father | 12 June 1907 (Age 54) Bonfield Twp., Ontario, Canada
father -
Robert Hudson
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Australian History | 1908 (Age 55) 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 56) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
Australian History | 1910 (Age 57) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
Australian History | 1911 (Age 58) 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 59) 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 |
Birth of a granddaughter #1 | 5 April 1913 (Age 60) Almonte, Lanark, Ontario, Canada
granddaughter -
Margaret Emeline Reid
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Australian History | 1913 (Age 60) 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 60) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
Australian History | 1914 (Age 61) 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 of a mother | 15 April 1915 (Age 62) Pembroke, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
mother -
Susan Smith
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Australian History | 1915 (Age 62) 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 63) 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 64) 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 65) 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 66) 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. |
Australian History | 1920 (Age 67) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
Australian History | 1921 (Age 68) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
Australian History | 1922 (Age 69) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
Australian History | 1923 (Age 70) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
Death | 26 November 1925 (Age 72) north Bay, Nipissing, Ontario, Canada |
Family with parents - View family |
father |
Robert Hudson
Birth 10 August 1824 Ontario, Canada Death 12 June 1907 (Age 82) Bonfield Twp., Ontario, Canada Loading...
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5 years mother |
Susan Smith
Birth 28 January 1829 Ontario, Canada Death 15 April 1915 (Age 86) Pembroke, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada Loading...
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Marriage: 16 March 1852 — Wilberforce Twp., Ontario, Canada |
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9 months #1 herself |
Margaret Ann Hudson
Birth 16 December 1852 28 23 Pembroke, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada Death 26 November 1925 (Age 72) north Bay, Nipissing, Ontario, Canada Loading...
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11 years #2 younger sister |
Agnes Hudson
Birth about 1864 39 34 Chalk River, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada Death June 1954 (Age 90) Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada Loading...
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Family with Joseph Moreau - View family |
husband |
Joseph Moreau
Birth 23 June 1847 Alumette Island, Pontiac, Quebec, Canada Death 15 November 1901 (Age 54) Ross Twp, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada Loading...
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6 years herself |
Margaret Ann Hudson
Birth 16 December 1852 28 23 Pembroke, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada Death 26 November 1925 (Age 72) north Bay, Nipissing, Ontario, Canada Loading...
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Marriage: 1 February 1879 — Pembroke, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada |
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7 years #1 daughter |
Margaret Roseann Moreau
Birth 24 August 1885 38 32 Chalk River, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada Death 23 July 1927 (Age 41) North Bay, Nipissing, Ontario, Canada Loading...
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