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Margaret Connell1798–?

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Margaret Connell
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Margaret
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Connell
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Birth 1798
 England

Australian History 1798
 

Note: 1798-9 - George Bass and Matthew Flinders sail from Sydney and circumnavigate Tasmania, thus proving it to be an island.
Australian History 1803 (Age 5)
 

Note: Matthew Flinders completes the first circumnavigation of the continent (still known as 'New Holland')
Australian History 1804 (Age 6)
 

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 10)
 

Note: The Rum Rebellion
MarriageThomas Laycock III - View family
8 July 1817 (Age 19)
 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Address:
St Phillips,
Australian History 1817 (Age 19)
 

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'
Birth of a son
#1		 2 December 1818 (Age 20)
 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

son - John Connell Laycock
Australian History 1818 (Age 20)
 

Note: Oxley charts the Macquarie River.
Birth of a son
#2		 17 June 1821 (Age 23)
 Bringelly, New South Wales, Australia

son - Elias Pearson Laycock
Death of a husband 7 November 1823 (Age 25)
 Bringelly, New South Wales, Australia

husband - Thomas Laycock III
Australian History 1824 (Age 26)
 

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 27)
 

Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed.
Death of a sister 1828 (Age 30)
 Tasmania, Australia

sister - Mary Connell
Australian History 1828 (Age 30)
 

Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.
Australian History 1829 (Age 31)
 

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 32)
 

Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.
Australian History 1831 (Age 33)
 

Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Australian History 1832 (Age 34)
 

Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Australian History 1833 (Age 35)
 

Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History 1835 (Age 37)
 

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 38)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History 1838 (Age 40)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History 1839 (Age 41)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History 1840 (Age 42)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Australian History 1841 (Age 43)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 44)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Marriage of a sonJohn Connell Laycock - View family
1 February 1843 (Age 45)
 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

son - John Connell Laycock
daughter-in-law - Mary Jane Simpson
Birth of a grandson
#1		 28 November 1843 (Age 45)
 

grandson - Maurice Laycock
Australian History 1843 (Age 45)
 

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).
Christening of a grandson 5 January 1844 (Age 46)
 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

grandson - Maurice Laycock
Birth of a grandson
#2		 8 May 1845 (Age 47)
 

grandson - Elias Laycock
Australian History 1845 (Age 47)
 

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.
Christening of a grandson 6 June 1845 (Age 47)
 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

grandson - Elias Laycock
Birth of a grandson
#3		 28 October 1847 (Age 49)
 

grandson - John Cornell Laycock
Christening of a grandson 19 November 1847 (Age 49)
 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

grandson - John Cornell Laycock
Birth of a granddaughter
#4		 20 November 1850 (Age 52)
 

granddaughter - Mary Laycock
Australian History 1850 (Age 52)
 

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.
Christening of a granddaughter 18 December 1850 (Age 52)
 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

granddaughter - Mary Laycock
Australian History 1851 (Age 53)
 

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
Birth of a granddaughter
#5		 6 April 1853 (Age 55)
 

granddaughter - Emily Laycock
Australian History 1853 (Age 55)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Christening of a granddaughter June 1853 (Age 55)
 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

granddaughter - Emily Laycock
Australian History 1854 (Age 56)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Birth of a granddaughter
#6		 5 November 1855 (Age 57)
 

granddaughter - Jane Laycock
Australian History 1855 (Age 57)
 

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.
Christening of a granddaughter November 1855 (Age 57)
 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

granddaughter - Jane Laycock
Australian History 1856 (Age 58)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 59)
 

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 60)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1859 (Age 61)
 

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 62)
 

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 63)
 

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 64)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 65)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Australian History 1867 (Age 69)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Australian History 1868 (Age 70)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 71)
 

Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.
Marriage of a grandsonJohn Cornell Laycock - View family
27 January 1872 (Age 74)
 Yamba, New South Wales, Australia

grandson - John Cornell Laycock
grandson's wife - Caroline Matilda Freeburn
Australian History 1872 (Age 74)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 75)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History 1875 (Age 77)
 

Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives.
Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed.
Marriage of a grandsonElias Laycock - View family
14 September 1876 (Age 78)
 

grandson - Elias Laycock
grandson's wife - Lucy Elizabeth Gregory
Death of a granddaughter 1877 (Age 79)
 

granddaughter - Mary Laycock
Death of a grandson 25 August 1878 (Age 80)
 Rushcutters Bay, New South Wales, Australia

grandson - Maurice Laycock
Australian History 1878 (Age 80)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 81)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 82)
 

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 84)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 85)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Death of a son 22 November 1886 (Age 88)
 Ingleburn, New South Wales, Australia

son - Elias Pearson Laycock
Australian History 1887 (Age 89)
 

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 91)
 

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 92)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History 1891 (Age 93)
 

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 94)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History 1893 (Age 95)
 

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 96)
 

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 97)
 

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 98)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Death of a son 31 July 1897 (Age 99)
 Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia

son - John Connell Laycock
Australian History 1897 (Age 99)
 

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 100)
 

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 101)
 

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.
Death of a grandson 1900 (Age 102)
 

grandson - Thomas Laycock
Australian History 1900 (Age 102)
 

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 103)
 

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 104)
 

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
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father
John Connell

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mother
Catherine …

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#1 herself
Margaret Connell

Birth 1798  England

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#2 sister
Mary Connell

Death 1828  Tasmania, Australia

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Family with Thomas Laycock III - View family
husband
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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12 years
herself
Margaret Connell

Birth 1798  England

Death yes  

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Marriage: 8 July 1817 — Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
17 months
#1 son
John Connell Laycock

Birth 2 December 1818 32 20  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Death 31 July 1897 (Age 78)  Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia

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3 years
#2 son
Elias Pearson Laycock

Birth 17 June 1821 35 23  Bringelly, New South Wales, Australia

Death 22 November 1886 (Age 65)  Ingleburn, New South Wales, Australia

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Thomas Laycock III + Isabella Bunker - View family
husband
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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husband's wife
Isabella Bunker

Death 13 May 1817  

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Marriage: 1 June 1809 — Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
13 months
#1 step-son
John Henry Laycock

Birth 15 July 1810 24  

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10 years
#2 step-daughter
Margaret Hannah Laycock

Birth 17 February 1820 34  London, England

Death yes  

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-5 years
#3 step-son
Thomas William Eber Laycock

Birth about 1815 29  Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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