Jane McCaig 1873

Jane McCaigAge: 661873–1939

Name: Jane McCaig

Given names: Jane

Surname: McCaig

Also known as: Jean, Jeanie,

Jean Clark

Name: Jean Clark

Given names: Jean

Surname: Clark

Jeanie Clark

Name: Jeanie Clark

Given names: Jeanie

Surname: Clark

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Birth	19 February 1873 44 33 Knockdunder, Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
Residence	Benson Cottage, Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
Australian History	1873 Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Birth of a brother	9 May 1875 (Age 2) Knockdunder, Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland younger brother - Thomas McCaig
Australian History	1875 (Age 22 months) Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives. Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed.
Death of a paternal grandmother	25 April 1876 (Age 3) Craigman, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland paternal grandmother - Wilhemina Campbell
Birth of a sister	13 September 1878 (Age 5) Craigman, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland younger sister - Christina "Aunty Tenee" McCaig
Australian History	1878 (Age 4) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History	1879 (Age 5) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History	1880 (Age 6) Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work.
Birth of a brother	11 March 1881 (Age 8) Knockden, Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland younger brother - Ivie McCaig
Census	4 April 1881 (Age 8) Knockdones, Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Note: 8 yrs, Bn Cumnock
Australian History	1882 (Age 8) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History	1883 (Age 9) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Australian History	1887 (Age 13) 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 15) Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration.
Death of a father	5 November 1890 (Age 17) Crichton Row, Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland father - Ivie McCaig
Australian History	1890 (Age 16) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History	1891 (Age 17) 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 18) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History	1893 (Age 19) 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 20) 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 21) 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 22) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History	1897 (Age 23) 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 24) 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.
Residence	4 December 1899 (Age 26) 7 Russell Street, Newton, Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland Note: Dairymaid
Australian History	1899 (Age 25) 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 26) 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
Residence	25 October 1901 (Age 28) Meadowhead, Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland
Australian History	1901 (Age 27) 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 28) 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 29) 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 30) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government
Australian History	1906 (Age 32) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Australian History	1908 (Age 34) 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 35) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Death of a sister	28 July 1910 (Age 37) Barbieston, Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland elder sister - Mary Murdoch McCaig
Australian History	1910 (Age 36) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History	1911 (Age 37) 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 38) 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
Australian History	1913 (Age 39) 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 39) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History	1914 (Age 40) 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.
Australian History	1915 (Age 41) 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 42) 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 43) 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 44) 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 45) 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 46) Note: The airline Qantas is founded
Australian History	1921 (Age 47) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament
Australian History	1922 (Age 48) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney
Death of a mother	8 January 1923 (Age 49) Curriestanes, Troqueer, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland mother - Margaret McMillan
Australian History	1923 (Age 49) Note: Vegemite is first produced
Australian History	1926 (Age 52) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held
Death of a sister	21 August 1927 (Age 54) 35 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland sister - Wilhemina (Campbell) McCaig
Australian History	1927 (Age 53) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital
Australian History	1928 (Age 54) Note: Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built.
Australian History	1929 (Age 55) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia.
Australian History	1930 (Age 56) Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup
Australian History	1931 (Age 57) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia
Australian History	1932 (Age 58) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister
Australian History	1933 (Age 59) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments
Australian History	1936 (Age 62) Note: The last Thylacine dies
Australian History	1937 (Age 63) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins
Australian History	1938 (Age 64) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games
Australian History	1939 (Age 65) Note: (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government Note: (September) Australia enters the Second World War following the German Invasion of Poland. The 2nd Australian Imperial Force is raised. Note: The first flight is made by an Australian-made warplane, the Wirraway Note: Victoria is devastated by the Black Friday bushfires
Death	1 November 1939 (Age 66) Benston, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Note: HEADSTONE Coylton Churchyard

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father	Ivie McCaig Birth about 1829 29 27 New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 5 November 1890 (Age 61) Crichton Row, Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
11 years mother	Margaret McMillan Birth 18 October 1839 Of Burnside, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 8 January 1923 (Age 83) Curriestanes, Troqueer, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Loading...
	Marriage: 18 December 1863 — Littlemark Hill, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
#1 sister	Wilhemina (Campbell) McCaig Death 21 August 1927 35 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Loading...
#2 elder sister	Mary Murdoch McCaig Birth 15 August 1866 37 26 Knockdunder, Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 28 July 1910 (Age 43) Barbieston, Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
7 years #3 herself	Jane McCaig Birth 19 February 1873 44 33 Knockdunder, Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 1 November 1939 (Age 66) Benston, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
2 years #4 younger brother	Thomas McCaig Birth 9 May 1875 46 35 Knockdunder, Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 17 August 1942 (Age 67) 68 Hawkhill Ave "Dalgig", Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
3 years #5 younger sister	Christina "Aunty Tenee" McCaig Birth 13 September 1878 49 38 Craigman, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 29 May 1944 (Age 65) Cottage, Troqueer, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Loading...
3 years #6 younger brother	Ivie McCaig Birth 11 March 1881 52 41 Knockden, Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 16 September 1950 (Age 69) In Motor Car On Way To County Hospital, Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...

Jane McCaig has 37 first cousins recorded

Father's family (37)

Parents David Stevenson + Margaret McCaig

1 Wilhelmina Stevenson 1860–?

2 Christina Stevenson 1860–1926

3 David Stevenson 1861–1889

4 Agnes Jane Stevenson 1864–1893

5 Thomas Stevenson 1866–1871

Parents George Park + Margaret McCaig

1 William Park 1858–?

Parents Ivie Campbell + Christina McCaig

1 Ivie Campbell 1863–1920

2 Jeanie Richmond Campbell 1865–1938

3 Thomas McCaig Campbell 1867–1926

4 John Richmond Campbell 1869–1897

Parents John McCaig + Christina Morrison

1 Male McCaig 1858–1858

2 Thomas McCaig 1861–1925

3 Jane McCaig 1864–1935

4 James McCaig 1867–1934

5 Christina McCaig 1869–1922

6 Wilhelmina McCaig 1871–1943

7 Margaret McCaig 1874–1950

8 Isabella McCaig 1876–1914

9 Jessie Elizabeth McCaig 1879–1966

10 John McCaig 1881–1940

11 Ivie McCaig 1887–1926

Parents Edward Irvin McCaig + Marion Allan

1 Thomas Edward McCaig 1876–?

Parents Thomas McCaig + Mary Fisher

1 Thomas William McCaig 1866–1950

2 Janet Bailie McCaig 1868–?

3 Wilhelmina Campbell McCaig 1870–1871

4 … McCaig 1873–?

5 William McCaig 1875–?

6 Mary Fisher McCaig 1877–?

7 John Thomas McCaig 1880–?

Parents William McCaig + Jean McKerrow

1 Robert McCaig 1869–1927

2 Jane McCaig 1874–1936

3 Thomas McCaig 1877–1962

4 Alexander McCaig 1878–1945

5 Hugh Dunbar McCaig 1880–1926

6 Wilhelmina Campbell McCaig 1884–1966

7 George McCaig 1889–1949

8 Christina McCaig 1896–1976

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Australian History	Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History	SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives.
Australian History	First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History	The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History	The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged.
Census	8 yrs, Bn Cumnock
Australian History	First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History	The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Australian History	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	The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.
Australian History	The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History	A National Australasian Convention meets, agrees on adopting the name 'the Commonwealth of Australia' and drafting a constitution.
Australian History	Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History	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	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	The premiers, except for those of Queensland and Western Australia, agree to implement the Corowa proposals.
Australian History	The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History	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.
Australian History	The Convention agrees on a final draft to be put to the people.
Residence	Dairymaid
Australian History	The decision is made to site the national capital in New South Wales, but not within 100 miles of Sydney.
Australian History	Several delegates visit London to resist proposed changes to the agreed-upon constitution.
Australian History	(01 Jan) Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General
Australian History	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.
Australian History	The High Court of Australia is established with Samuel Griffith as the first Chief Justice.
Australian History	A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital
Australian History	Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Australian History	Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country
Australian History	The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History	Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History	The Royal Australian Navy is founded
Australian History	Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time
Australian History	Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains.
Australian History	The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History	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.
Australian History	(25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April.
Australian History	Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill'
Australian History	Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed.
Australian History	(08 AUG) Battle of Amiens
Australian History	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	The airline Qantas is founded
Australian History	Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament
Australian History	The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney
Australian History	Vegemite is first produced
Australian History	The first Miss Australia contest is held
Australian History	The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital
Australian History	Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built.
Australian History	Western Australia celebrates its centenary
Australian History	Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings
Australian History	Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia
Australian History	The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens
Australian History	Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments
Australian History	The last Thylacine dies
Australian History	The radio series Dad and Dave begins
Australian History	Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games
Australian History	(April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government
Death	HEADSTONE Coylton Churchyard