Jane Macoubrey GreggAge: 861870–1956
- Name
- Jane Macoubrey Gregg
- Given names
- Jane Macoubrey
- Surname
- Gregg
| Birth | 3 May 1870 22 19 Stanwood, Cedar, Iowa, USA |
| Birth of a brother | 22 December 1872 (Age 2) Stanwood, Cedar, Iowa, USA
younger brother -
Robert Macoubrey Gregg
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| Australian History | 1872 (Age 19 months) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Australian History | 1873 (Age 2) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Birth of a sister | December 1874 (Age 4) Stanwood, Cedar, Iowa, USA
younger sister -
Mary Smith Gregg
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| Australian History | 1875 (Age 4) Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives. Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed. |
| Birth of a sister | December 1876 (Age 6) Traer, Tama, Iowa, USA
younger sister -
Sadie Isabell Gregg
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| Birth of a brother | 23 February 1878 (Age 7) Rose City, Tama, Iowa, USA
younger brother -
William Black Gregg
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| Australian History | 1878 (Age 7) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Birth of a brother | 18 December 1879 (Age 9) Rochester, Cedar, Iowa, USA
younger brother -
Richard Daniel Gregg
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| Australian History | 1879 (Age 8) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 9) 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 sister | 1 December 1882 (Age 12) Stanwood, Cedar, Iowa, USA
younger sister -
Mildred (Maria) (Mcmillan) Gregg
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| Australian History | 1882 (Age 11) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 12) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | January 1884 (Age 13) Traer, Tama, Iowa, USA
paternal grandfather -
Moses Gregg Sr
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| Birth of a brother | 17 February 1884 (Age 13) Tipton, Cedar, Iowa, USA
younger brother -
Christy Brown Gregg
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| Birth of a sister | 11 March 1886 (Age 15) Tipton, Cedar, Iowa, USA
younger sister -
Anna Myrtle Gregg
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| Australian History | 1887 (Age 16) 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 18) Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration. |
| Birth of a brother | 13 April 1890 (Age 19) Tipton, Cedar, Iowa, USA
younger brother -
Paul Eugene Gregg
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| Australian History | 1890 (Age 19) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 20) 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 21) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 22) 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. |
| Marriage | John Edwin Willer - View family 27 February 1894 (Age 23) Tipton, Cedar, Iowa, USA |
| Australian History | 1894 (Age 23) 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 24) 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 25) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 26) 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 27) 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. |
| Marriage of a brother | Robert Macoubrey Gregg - View family 15 February 1899 (Age 28) Tipton, Cedar, Iowa, USA
younger brother -
Robert Macoubrey Gregg
sister-in-law -
Etha Waldo Curry
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| Australian History | 1899 (Age 28) 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 29) 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 |
| Death of a sister | 18 November 1901 (Age 31) Tipton, Cedar, Iowa, USA
younger sister -
Mary Smith Gregg
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| Australian History | 1901 (Age 30) 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 31) 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 32) 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 33) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government |
| Marriage of a brother | William Black Gregg - View family 19 June 1906 (Age 36) Ida Grove, Ida, Iowa, USA
younger brother -
William Black Gregg
sister-in-law -
Ethel Perham Hubbard
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| Australian History | 1906 (Age 35) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Death of a sister | 7 December 1908 (Age 38) Davenport, Scott, Iowa, USA
younger sister -
Sadie Isabell Gregg
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| Australian History | 1908 (Age 37) 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 | 1909 (Age 38)
younger brother -
Richard Daniel Gregg
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| Australian History | 1909 (Age 38) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Marriage of a sister | Anna Myrtle Gregg - View family 24 March 1910 (Age 39) Tipton, Cedar, Iowa, USA
brother-in-law -
Lloyd Hanna
younger sister -
Anna Myrtle Gregg
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| Marriage of a sister | Mildred (Maria) (Mcmillan) Gregg - View family 3 August 1910 (Age 40)
brother-in-law -
Walter M. Ball
younger sister -
Mildred (Maria) (Mcmillan) Gregg
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| Australian History | 1910 (Age 39) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 40) 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 41) 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 |
| Marriage of a brother | Christy Brown Gregg - View family 2 April 1913 (Age 42)
younger brother -
Christy Brown Gregg
sister-in-law -
Winifred Mc Cracken
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| Australian History | 1913 (Age 42) 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 42) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 43) 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 44) 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 45) 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 46) 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. |
| Death of a mother | 18 January 1918 (Age 47) Tipton, Cedar, Iowa, USA
mother -
Sarah Anne Macoubrey
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| Australian History | 1918 (Age 47) 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 48) 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 49) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 50) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 51) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 52) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Death of a father | 16 July 1925 (Age 55) Tipton, Cedar, Iowa, USA
father -
Richard Gregg
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| Australian History | 1926 (Age 55) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 56) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 57) 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 58) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 59) 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 60) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 61) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1933 (Age 62) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Death of a brother | 7 March 1935 (Age 64) Carthage, Hancock, Illinois, USA
younger brother -
Robert Macoubrey Gregg
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| Australian History | 1936 (Age 65) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | 1937 (Age 66) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 67) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 68) 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 |
| Australian History | 1940 (Age 69) Note: A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin Note: Fascist Italy enters war, Royal Australian Navy engages Italian Navy in the early stages of the Battle of the Mediterranean. |
| Australian History | 1941 (Age 70) Note: 3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa. Note: Apr-Aug, Australian garrison (Rats of Tobruk) halt advance of Hitler's panzers for the first time during the Siege of Tobruk. Note: Menzies resigns and John Curtin becomes Prime Minister in the Curtin Government of 1941-45. |
| Australian History | 1942 (Age 71) Note: Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese Note: 1942-43 - Japanese air raids - almost 100 attacks against sites in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland. Note: The Royal Australian Navy and 6th and 7th Divisions of 2nd AIF are recalled from Mediterranean Theatre to participate in the anticipated Battle of Australia. Note: 1942-3 - Sparrow Force engages in guerilla campaign in Battle of Timor Note: Battle of the Coral Sea - United States and Royal Australian Navy halt advance of the Japanese towards Port Moresby (Australian Territory of Papua) Note: Battle of Kokoda Trail - Australian soldiers halt Japanese march on Port Moresby Note: Aug-Sep, Australian forces inflict the first defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle of Milne Bay. Note: Jul-Nov, Australia's 9th Division plays crucial role in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein, which turned the North Africa Campaign in favour of the Allies. Note: National daylight saving is introduced as a war time measure. Note: The UK Statute of Westminster is formally adopted by Australia. The Statute formally grants Australia the right to pass laws that conflict with UK laws. |
| Australian History | 1943 (Age 72) Note: Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary. Note: 2,815 Australian Pows die constructing Japan's Burma-Thailand Railway Note: 1943-44 - Australian forces engage Japan in New Guinea, Wau, and the Huon peninsula. |
| Death of a sister | 17 January 1944 (Age 73) Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
younger sister -
Mildred (Maria) (Mcmillan) Gregg
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| Burial of a sister | 19 January 1944 (Age 73) Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, USA
younger sister -
Mildred (Maria) (Mcmillan) Gregg
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| Australian History | 1944 (Age 73) Note: Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW. Note: Japanese inflict Sandakan Death March on 2,000 Australian and British prisoners of war - only 6 survive. The single worst war crime perpetrated against Australians. Note: Australian forces battle Japanese garrisons from Borneo to Bougainville. Note: The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is introduced, providing subsidised medicine to all Australians |
| Australian History | 1945 (Age 74) Note: the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader. Note: Australian forces lead Battle of Borneo Note: (7 May) Nazi Germany surrenders Note: (July) Prime Minister Curtin dies and is replaced by Ben Chifley and the Chifley Labor Government Note: (1 August) Japan Surrenders Note: Australia becomes a founding member of the United Nations Note: The Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race is held for the first time |
| Australian History | 1946 (Age 75) Note: Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme Note: Norman Makin, is voted in as the first President of the United Nations Security Council. |
| Australian History | 1948 (Age 77) Note: Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly. Note: Australia becomes a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. |
| Australian History | 1949 (Age 78) Note: Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins Note: All indigenous ex-servicemen and any Indigenous Australians who are eligible to vote in State Elections (NSW, VIC, SA and TAS) are given an unrestricted right to vote in Federal Elections. Note: The Nationality and Citizenship Act is passed. Rather than being identified as subjects of Britain, the Act established Australian citizenship for people who met eligibility requirements. Note: Menzies returns to power as leader of the new Liberal Party Menzies Government. |
| Death of a husband | 1950 (Age 79)
husband -
John Edwin Willer
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| Australian History | 1950 (Age 79) Note: 1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea. Note: Voters reject a referendum to change the Constitution to allow the Menzies Government to ban the Communist Party |
| Death of a brother | 21 September 1951 (Age 81) Tacoma, Thurston, Washington, USA
younger brother -
William Black Gregg
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| Australian History | 1951 (Age 80) Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand |
| Australian History | 1952 (Age 81) Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia. |
| Death of a sister | 10 June 1954 (Age 84)
younger sister -
Anna Myrtle Gregg
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| Australian History | 1954 (Age 83) Note: Elizabeth II and Prince Philip make a royal visit; the Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects, leading to the Petrov Affair and another split in the Labor Party |
| Australian History | 1955 (Age 84) Note: Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement Note: Australia becomes involved in Malayan Insurgence Note: Hotels in New South Wales no longer have to close at 6 p.m., ending the 'six o'clock swill' |
| Death of a sister | 9 February 1956 (Age 85)
elder sister -
Jane "Jennie" Gregg
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| Australian History | 1956 (Age 85) Note: Television in Australia is launched. Note: Melbourne holds the Olympics Note: performing artist Barry Humphries introduces Edna Everage to the Australian stage |
| Death | 9 September 1956 (Age 86) Tipton, Cedar, Iowa, USA |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Richard Gregg
Birth 26 March 1848 41 38 Killycreen, Ramelton, Donegal, Ireland Death 16 July 1925 (Age 77) Tipton, Cedar, Iowa, USA Loading...
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3 years mother |
Sarah Anne Macoubrey
Birth 9 February 1851 New York, New York, USA Death 18 January 1918 (Age 66) Tipton, Cedar, Iowa, USA Loading...
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Marriage: 2 November 1869 — Stanwood, Cedar, Iowa, USA |
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5 months #1 elder sister |
Jane "Jennie" Gregg
Birth 26 March 1870 22 19 Stanwood, Cedar, Iowa, USA Death 9 February 1956 (Age 85) Loading...
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1 month #2 herself |
Jane Macoubrey Gregg
Birth 3 May 1870 22 19 Stanwood, Cedar, Iowa, USA Death 9 September 1956 (Age 86) Tipton, Cedar, Iowa, USA Loading...
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3 years #3 younger brother |
Robert Macoubrey Gregg
Birth 22 December 1872 24 21 Stanwood, Cedar, Iowa, USA Death 7 March 1935 (Age 62) Carthage, Hancock, Illinois, USA Loading...
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23 months #4 younger sister |
Mary Smith Gregg
Birth December 1874 26 23 Stanwood, Cedar, Iowa, USA Death 18 November 1901 (Age 26) Tipton, Cedar, Iowa, USA Loading...
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2 years #5 younger sister |
Sadie Isabell Gregg
Birth December 1876 28 25 Traer, Tama, Iowa, USA Death 7 December 1908 (Age 32) Davenport, Scott, Iowa, USA Loading...
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15 months #6 younger brother |
William Black Gregg
Birth 23 February 1878 29 27 Rose City, Tama, Iowa, USA Death 21 September 1951 (Age 73) Tacoma, Thurston, Washington, USA Loading...
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22 months #7 younger brother |
Richard Daniel Gregg
Birth 18 December 1879 31 28 Rochester, Cedar, Iowa, USA Death 1909 (Age 29) Loading...
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3 years #8 younger sister |
Mildred (Maria) (Mcmillan) Gregg
Birth 1 December 1882 34 31 Stanwood, Cedar, Iowa, USA Death 17 January 1944 (Age 61) Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Loading...
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15 months #9 younger brother |
Christy Brown Gregg
Birth 17 February 1884 35 33 Tipton, Cedar, Iowa, USA Death Tacoma, Thurston, Washington, USA Loading...
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2 years #10 younger sister |
Anna Myrtle Gregg
Birth 11 March 1886 37 35 Tipton, Cedar, Iowa, USA Death 10 June 1954 (Age 68) Loading...
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4 years #11 younger brother |
Paul Eugene Gregg
Birth 13 April 1890 42 39 Tipton, Cedar, Iowa, USA Death 14 April 1966 (Age 76) Egan, Moody, South Dakota, USA Loading...
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| Family with John Edwin Willer - View family |
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John Edwin Willer
Birth 1871 Death 1950 (Age 79) Loading...
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-8 months herself |
Jane Macoubrey Gregg
Birth 3 May 1870 22 19 Stanwood, Cedar, Iowa, USA Death 9 September 1956 (Age 86) Tipton, Cedar, Iowa, USA Loading...
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Marriage: 27 February 1894 — Tipton, Cedar, Iowa, USA |
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