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Elias Pearson LaycockAge: 651821–1886

Name
Elias Pearson Laycock
Given names
Elias Pearson
Surname
Laycock
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Birth 17 June 1821 35 23
 Bringelly, New South Wales, Australia

MarriageGrace Lysaght Longfield - View family
 

Death of a paternal grandfather 7 November 1823 (Age 2)
 Pitt St, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

paternal grandfather - Thomas Laycock II
Death of a father 7 November 1823 (Age 2)
 Bringelly, New South Wales, Australia

father - Thomas Laycock III
Australian History 1824 (Age 2)
 

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 3)
 

Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed.
Australian History 1828 (Age 6)
 

Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.
Australian History 1829 (Age 7)
 

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 8)
 

Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.
Death of a paternal grandmother 1831 (Age 9)
 

paternal grandmother - Hannah Pearson
Australian History 1831 (Age 9)
 

Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Australian History 1832 (Age 10)
 

Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Australian History 1833 (Age 11)
 

Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History 1835 (Age 13)
 

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 14)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History 1838 (Age 16)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History 1839 (Age 17)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History 1840 (Age 18)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Australian History 1841 (Age 19)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 20)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Marriage of a brotherJohn Connell Laycock - View family
1 February 1843 (Age 21)
 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

elder brother - John Connell Laycock
sister-in-law - Mary Jane Simpson
Australian History 1843 (Age 21)
 

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 23)
 

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 28)
 

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 29)
 

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 31)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History 1854 (Age 32)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 33)
 

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 34)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 35)
 

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 36)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1859 (Age 37)
 

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 38)
 

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 39)
 

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 40)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 41)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Australian History 1867 (Age 45)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Australian History 1868 (Age 46)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 47)
 

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 50)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 51)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History 1875 (Age 53)
 

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 56)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 57)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 58)
 

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 60)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 61)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Birth of a granddaughter
#1		 1884 (Age 62)
 

granddaughter - Vera Pearson Blaxland
Death 22 November 1886 (Age 65)
 Ingleburn, New South Wales, Australia

Burial
 Denham Court, New South Wales, Australia

Family with parents - View family
father
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
mother
Margaret Connell

Birth 1798  England

Death yes  

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Marriage: 8 July 1817 — Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
17 months
#1 elder brother
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 himself
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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Father’s family with Isabella Bunker - View family
father
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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step-mother
Isabella Bunker

Death 13 May 1817  

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

Birth 15 July 1810 24  

Death yes  

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10 years
#2 half-sister
Margaret Hannah Laycock

Birth 17 February 1820 34  London, England

Death yes  

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#3 half-brother
Thomas William Eber Laycock

Birth about 1815 29  Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Death yes  

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Family with Grace Lysaght Longfield - View family
himself
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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wife
Grace Lysaght Longfield

Death yes  

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Marriage: yes
#1 daughter
Grace Connell Laycock
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Elias Pearson Laycock has 13 first cousins recorded

Father's family (12)

Parents Nicholas Paget Bayly Sr + Sarah Laycock
1 Frances Bayly 1803–1824
2 Henry Bayly 1806–1863
3 Major George Bayly 1806–1865
4 Augusta Bayly 1808–1860
5 Caroline Bayly 1810–1840
6 Edward Bayly 1812–1873
7 Nicholas Paget Bayly Jr 1814–1879
8 Charles Luke Bayly 1815–1866
9 Ellen Bayly 1818–1819
10 Sarah Ellen Maria Bayly 1820–1853
Parents Thomas Matcham Pitt + Elizabeth Laycock
1 George Matcham Pitt 1814–?
2 Mary Matcham Pitt 1815–?

Mother's family (1)

Parents James Cox + Mary Connell
1 Ann Cox 1826–?

Extra information

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