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William Laycock1785–?

Name
William Laycock
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William
Surname
Laycock
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Birth about 1785 29 27
 Dorset, Somerset, England

Birth of a brother about 1786 (Age 12 months)
 Bristol, Somerset, England

younger brother - Thomas Laycock III
Birth of a brother about 1788 (Age 3)
 Bristol, Somerset, England

younger brother - Samuel Laycock
Australian History 1788 (Age 3)
 

Note: The British First Fleet, led by Governor Arthur Phillip arrives in New South Wales to found first European settlement and penal colony at Sydney. Colony includes 'all the islands adjacent in the Pacific Ocean' and running westward to the 135th meridian east. This claim included the islands of New Zealand, which were administered as part of New South Wales.
Note: British settlement founded at Norfolk Island.
Australian History 1790 (Age 5)
 

Note: Beleaguered Second Fleet arrives. Colony gripped by food crisis.
Birth of a brother about 1792 (Age 7)
 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

younger brother - George Laycock
Death of a brother 11 March 1792 (Age 7)
 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

younger brother - George Laycock
Australian History 1792 (Age 7)
 

Note: Two French ships, La Recherche and L'Esp�rance, anchor at Recherche Bay, near the southernmost point of Tasmania at a time when England and France were racing around the globe to be the first to discover and colonise Australia.
Note: Governor Philip returns to England, accompanied by his friend Bennelong and a companion who become the first Australian born person to sail to Europe.
Birth of a sister about 1796 (Age 11)
 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

younger sister - Elizabeth Laycock
Australian History 1797 (Age 12)
 

Note: Sydney Cove wrecked and some survivors travelled from Bass Strait to Port Jackson allowing for the rescue of others but also furthering knowledge of the geography of Australia.
Australian History 1798 (Age 13)
 

Note: 1798-9 - George Bass and Matthew Flinders sail from Sydney and circumnavigate Tasmania, thus proving it to be an island.
Marriage of a sisterSarah Laycock - View family
19 November 1801 (Age 16)
 Homebush, New South Wales, Australia

brother-in-law - Nicholas Paget Bayly Sr
elder sister - Sarah Laycock
Australian History 1803 (Age 18)
 

Note: Matthew Flinders completes the first circumnavigation of the continent (still known as 'New Holland')
Australian History 1804 (Age 19)
 

Note: A settlement is founded at Risdon on the Derwent River in Van Diemen's Land by Lieutenant Bowen.
Note: Castle Hill convict rebellion also known as the second Battle of Vinegar Hill
Note: The Risdon settlement is moved to Sullivan's Cove (now Hobart) by Colonel David Collins.
Australian History 1808 (Age 23)
 

Note: The Rum Rebellion
Marriage of a brotherThomas Laycock III - View family
1 June 1809 (Age 24)
 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

younger brother - Thomas Laycock III
sister-in-law - Isabella Bunker
Marriage of a sisterElizabeth Laycock - View family
15 February 1813 (Age 28)
 Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia

brother-in-law - Thomas Matcham Pitt
younger sister - Elizabeth Laycock
Marriage of a brotherThomas Laycock III - View family
8 July 1817 (Age 32)
 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

younger brother - Thomas Laycock III
sister-in-law - Margaret Connell
Australian History 1817 (Age 32)
 

Note: John Oxley charts the Lachlan River
Note: Australia's first bank, the Bank of New South Wales, opens in Macquarie Place, Sydney (it became Westpac in 1982).
Note: Governor Lachlan Macquarie petitioned the British Admiralty to use the name 'Australia' instead of 'New Holland'
Australian History 1818 (Age 33)
 

Note: Oxley charts the Macquarie River.
Death of a sister 13 June 1820 (Age 35)
 Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia

elder sister - Sarah Laycock
Death of a brother 7 November 1823 (Age 38)
 Bringelly, New South Wales, Australia

younger brother - Thomas Laycock III
Death of a father 7 November 1823 (Age 38)
 Pitt St, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

father - Thomas Laycock II
Australian History 1824 (Age 39)
 

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 40)
 

Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed.
Australian History 1828 (Age 43)
 

Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.
Australian History 1829 (Age 44)
 

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 45)
 

Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.
Death of a mother 1831 (Age 46)
 

mother - Hannah Pearson
Australian History 1831 (Age 46)
 

Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Australian History 1832 (Age 47)
 

Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Australian History 1833 (Age 48)
 

Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Death of a sister 1 January 1835 (Age 50)
 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia

younger sister - Elizabeth Laycock
Australian History 1835 (Age 50)
 

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 51)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Death of a brother 9 July 1838 (Age 53)
 

younger brother - Samuel Laycock
Australian History 1838 (Age 53)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History 1839 (Age 54)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History 1840 (Age 55)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Australian History 1841 (Age 56)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 57)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 58)
 

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 60)
 

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 65)
 

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 66)
 

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 68)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History 1854 (Age 69)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 70)
 

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 71)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 72)
 

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 73)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1859 (Age 74)
 

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 75)
 

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 76)
 

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 77)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 78)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Australian History 1867 (Age 82)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Australian History 1868 (Age 83)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 84)
 

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 87)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 88)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History 1875 (Age 90)
 

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 93)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 94)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 95)
 

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 97)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 98)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Australian History 1887 (Age 102)
 

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 104)
 

Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.
Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration.
Deathyes
 

Family with parents - View family
father
Thomas Laycock II

Birth 1756  

Death 7 November 1823 (Age 67)  Pitt St, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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2 years
mother
Hannah Pearson

Birth 1758  

Death 1831 (Age 73)  

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Marriage: yes
#1 elder sister
Sarah Laycock

Birth 19 November 1783 27 25  Dorset, England

Death 13 June 1820 (Age 36)  Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia

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13 months
#2 himself
William Laycock

Birth about 1785 29 27  Dorset, Somerset, England

Death yes  

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1 year
#3 younger brother
Thomas Laycock III

Birth about 1786 30 28  Bristol, Somerset, England

Death 7 November 1823 (Age 37)  Bringelly, New South Wales, Australia

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2 years
#4 younger brother
Samuel Laycock

Birth about 1788 32 30  Bristol, Somerset, England

Death 9 July 1838 (Age 50)  

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4 years
#5 younger brother
George Laycock

Birth about 1792 36 34  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Death 11 March 1792  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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-18 years
#6 elder sister
Rebeccca Laycock

Birth about 1774 18 16  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Death yes  

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22 years
#7 younger sister
Elizabeth Laycock

Birth about 1796 40 38  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Death 1 January 1835 (Age 39)  Richmond, New South Wales, Australia

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