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William GreggAge: 911817–1909

Name
William Gregg
Given names
William
Surname
Gregg
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Birth 5 July 1817 34 34
 Killycreen, Ramelton, Donegal, Ireland

MarriagePhoebe Holden - View family
 

Birth of a brother 5 July 1817
 Killycreen, Ramelton, Donegal, Ireland

twin brother - Robert Gregg
Australian History 1817
 

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 5 months)
 

Note: Oxley charts the Macquarie River.
Birth of a sister 19 February 1819 (Age 19 months)
 Killycreen, Ramelton, Donegal, Ireland

younger sister - Martha Gregg
Death of a sister 20 April 1820 (Age 2)
 

younger sister - Martha Gregg
Birth of a sister 1821 (Age 3)
 

younger sister - Martha Gregg
Christening of a sister 11 February 1821 (Age 3)
 Killycreen, Ramelton, Donegal, Ireland

younger sister - Martha Gregg
Australian History 1824 (Age 6)
 

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 7)
 

Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed.
Birth of a sister 2 February 1828 (Age 10)
 Killycreen, Donegal, Ireland

younger sister - Eleanor Graham Gregg
Death of a sister 17 February 1828 (Age 10)
 

elder sister - Jean Gregg
Death of a paternal grandfather 21 July 1828 (Age 11)
 Moneylaggan, Donegal, Ireland

paternal grandfather - Richard Gregg
Australian History 1828 (Age 10)
 

Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.
Death of a brother 21 July 1829 (Age 12)
 Gladbrook, Tama, Iowa, USA

elder brother - Richard Gregg
Australian History 1829 (Age 11)
 

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 12)
 

Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.
Australian History 1831 (Age 13)
 

Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Australian History 1832 (Age 14)
 

Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Australian History 1833 (Age 15)
 

Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History 1835 (Age 17)
 

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.
Death of a sister 14 November 1836 (Age 19)
 

elder sister - Isabella Gregg
Australian History 1836 (Age 18)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History 1838 (Age 20)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Marriage of a brotherMoses Gregg Sr - View family
21 February 1839 (Age 21)
 Ramelton, Donegal, Ireland

elder brother - Moses Gregg Sr
sister-in-law - Mary Anne Black
Marriage of a sisterMartha Gregg - View family
23 May 1839 (Age 21)
 Ramelton, Donegal, Ireland

brother-in-law - John Spencer
younger sister - Martha Gregg
Australian History 1839 (Age 21)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History 1840 (Age 22)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Australian History 1841 (Age 23)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Marriage of a brotherDaniel Gregg Jr - View family
6 October 1842 (Age 25)
 Ramelton, Donegal, Ireland

elder brother - Daniel Gregg Jr
sister-in-law - Isabella Ellison
Australian History 1842 (Age 24)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 25)
 

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 27)
 

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 32)
 

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.
Death of a father 10 July 1851 (Age 34)
 Ramelton, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland

father - Daniel Gregg
Australian History 1851 (Age 33)
 

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 35)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History 1854 (Age 36)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 37)
 

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 38)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Death of a mother 7 July 1857 (Age 40)
 Cashelshanaghan, Augnish, Donegal, Ireland

mother - Jane Graham
Australian History 1857 (Age 39)
 

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 40)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1859 (Age 41)
 

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 42)
 

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 43)
 

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 44)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 45)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Australian History 1867 (Age 49)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Australian History 1868 (Age 50)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 51)
 

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 54)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 55)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Death of a brother 9 November 1875 (Age 58)
 

elder brother - Daniel Gregg Jr
Australian History 1875 (Age 57)
 

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 60)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 61)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Death of a sister 30 October 1880 (Age 63)
 

younger sister - Martha Gregg
Australian History 1880 (Age 62)
 

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 64)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 65)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Death of a brother January 1884 (Age 66)
 Traer, Tama, Iowa, USA

elder brother - Moses Gregg Sr
Death of a sister 1887 (Age 69)
 

younger sister - Eleanor Graham Gregg
Australian History 1887 (Age 69)
 

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 71)
 

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 72)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History 1891 (Age 73)
 

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 74)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History 1893 (Age 75)
 

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 76)
 

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 77)
 

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 78)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History 1897 (Age 79)
 

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 80)
 

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 81)
 

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 82)
 

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 83)
 

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 84)
 

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 85)
 

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 86)
 

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 88)
 

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Australian History 1908 (Age 90)
 

Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country
Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead
Death of a brother 26 May 1909 (on the date of death)
 

twin brother - Robert Gregg
Australian History 1909 (Age 91)
 

Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Death 26 May 1909 (Age 91)
 Ontario, California, USA

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father
Daniel Gregg

Birth about 1783 43  Donegal, Ireland

Death 10 July 1851 (Age 68)  Ramelton, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland

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mother
Jane Graham

Birth about 1783  Altrincham, Cheshire, England

Death 7 July 1857 (Age 74)  Cashelshanaghan, Augnish, Donegal, Ireland

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Marriage: 30 May 1805 — Ramelton, Donegal, Ireland
1 year
#1 elder brother
Moses Gregg Sr

Birth 6 June 1806 23 23  Killycreen, Ramelton, Donegal, Ireland

Death January 1884 (Age 77)  Traer, Tama, Iowa, USA

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#2 elder sister
Jane Gregg

Birth 11 February 1808 25 25  Killycreen, Donegal, Ireland

Death 31 August 1809 (Age 18 months)  

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18 months
#3 elder brother
Richard Gregg

Birth 28 July 1809 26 26  Ramelton, Donegal, Ireland

Death 21 July 1829 (Age 19)  Gladbrook, Tama, Iowa, USA

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3 years
#4 elder brother
Daniel Gregg Jr

Birth 17 May 1812 29 29  Killycreen, Ramelton, Donegal, Ireland

Death 9 November 1875 (Age 63)  

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#5 elder sister
Jean Gregg

Birth 17 May 1812 29 29  Killycreen, Donegal, Ireland

Death 17 February 1828 (Age 15)  

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20 months
#6 elder sister
Isabella Gregg

Birth 16 January 1814 31 31  Killycreen, Ramelton, Donegal, Ireland

Death 14 November 1836 (Age 22)  

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4 years
#7 twin brother
Robert Gregg

Birth 5 July 1817 34 34  Killycreen, Ramelton, Donegal, Ireland

Death 26 May 1909 (Age 91)  

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#8 himself
William Gregg

Birth 5 July 1817 34 34  Killycreen, Ramelton, Donegal, Ireland

Death 26 May 1909 (Age 91)  Ontario, California, USA

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20 months
#9 younger sister
Martha Gregg

Birth 19 February 1819 36 36  Killycreen, Ramelton, Donegal, Ireland

Death 20 April 1820 (Age 14 months)  

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22 months
#10 younger sister
Martha Gregg

Birth 1821 38 38  

Death 30 October 1880 (Age 59)  

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7 years
#11 younger sister
Eleanor Graham Gregg

Birth 2 February 1828 45 45  Killycreen, Donegal, Ireland

Death 1887 (Age 58)  

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Family with Phoebe Holden - View family
himself
William Gregg

Birth 5 July 1817 34 34  Killycreen, Ramelton, Donegal, Ireland

Death 26 May 1909 (Age 91)  Ontario, California, USA

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wife
Phoebe Holden

Death yes  

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Marriage: yes

William Gregg has 16 first cousins recorded

Father's family (16)

Parents Robert Gregg + Mattie Mc Clure
1 Richard Gregg 1790–1864
2 Finlay Gregg Sr ?–?
3 Robert Gregg 1810–?
4 Mary Gregg 1815–?
5 Jeanie Gregg ?–?
6 Eliza Gregg ?–?
Parents Robert Gregg + Peggy Starritt
1 Margaret Rose Gregg ?–?
2 Daniel Mc Entosh Gregg Sr. 1819–1889
3 Nancy Gregg ?–?
4 Martha "Mattie" Gregg 1822–1885
5 William Gregg 1837–?
Parents Richard Gregg + Fanny McClure
1 Sarah Gregg 1812–1894 Birth
2 John Gregg 1829–1908 Birth
3 Daniel Gregg 1831–1901 Birth
Parents John Gailey + Mattie Gregg
1 John Gailey ?–?
2 Sarah Gailey 1810–?

Mother's family (0)

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