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Robert Lewis G. HaysAge: 661871–1938

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Robert Lewis G. Hays
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Robert Lewis G.
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Hays

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Birth 12 December 1871 36 27
 North Shenango, Pennsylvania, USA

MarriageRosie M. Wallace - View family
 

Australian History 1872 (Age 20 days)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 12 months)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History 1875 (Age 3)
 

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 1877 (Age 5)
 Pennsylvania, USA

younger sister - Urilla Hays
Australian History 1878 (Age 6)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Birth of a sister 21 March 1879 (Age 7)
 

younger sister - Mary M. Hays
Australian History 1879 (Age 7)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 8)
 

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 10)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 11)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Death of a maternal grandmother 3 October 1885 (Age 13)
 Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

maternal grandmother - Martha "Mattie" Gregg
Australian History 1887 (Age 15)
 

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 17)
 

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 18)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History 1891 (Age 19)
 

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 20)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Death of a maternal grandfather 13 September 1893 (Age 21)
 Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

maternal grandfather - James Gibson Sr
Australian History 1893 (Age 21)
 

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 22)
 

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 23)
 

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 24)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History 1897 (Age 25)
 

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 26)
 

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 27)
 

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 28)
 

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 29)
 

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 30)
 

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 31)
 

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 32)
 

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 34)
 

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Death of a sister 25 December 1907 (Age 36)
 

younger sister - Mary M. Hays
Australian History 1908 (Age 36)
 

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 37)
 

Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History 1910 (Age 38)
 

Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History 1911 (Age 39)
 

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 40)
 

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 41)
 

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 41)
 

Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History 1914 (Age 42)
 

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 43)
 

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 44)
 

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 45)
 

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 46)
 

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 47)
 

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 48)
 

Note: The airline Qantas is founded
Australian History 1921 (Age 49)
 

Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament
Australian History 1922 (Age 50)
 

Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney
Australian History 1923 (Age 51)
 

Note: Vegemite is first produced
Australian History 1926 (Age 54)
 

Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held
Australian History 1927 (Age 55)
 

Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital
Australian History 1928 (Age 56)
 

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 57)
 

Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary
Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia.
Australian History 1930 (Age 58)
 

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 59)
 

Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia
Australian History 1932 (Age 60)
 

Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens
Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister
Australian History 1933 (Age 61)
 

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 64)
 

Note: The last Thylacine dies
Australian History 1937 (Age 65)
 

Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins
Australian History 1938 (Age 66)
 

Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games
Death 10 March 1938 (Age 66)
 Hartstown, Pennsylvania, USA

Family with parents - View family
father
Robert Hays

Birth 4 May 1835  Donegal, Ireland

Death yes  

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mother
Margaret Elizabeth "Lib" Gibson

Birth 31 October 1844 34 22  Pennsylvania, USA

Death  Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

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Marriage: yes
#1 brother
Harry J. Hays

Death yes  

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#2 brother
John A. Hays

Death yes  

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#3 brother
William G. Hays

Death yes  

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#4 brother
Rev Richard D. Hays

Death yes  

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#5 sister
… Hays

Death yes  

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#6 himself
Robert Lewis G. Hays

Birth 12 December 1871 36 27  North Shenango, Pennsylvania, USA

Death 10 March 1938 (Age 66)  Hartstown, Pennsylvania, USA

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#7 younger sister
Urilla Hays

Birth 1877 41 32  Pennsylvania, USA

Death 1961 (Age 84)  Linesville, Pennsylvania, USA

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#8 younger sister
Mary M. Hays

Birth 21 March 1879 43 34  

Death 25 December 1907 (Age 28)  

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Family with Rosie M. Wallace - View family
himself
Robert Lewis G. Hays

Birth 12 December 1871 36 27  North Shenango, Pennsylvania, USA

Death 10 March 1938 (Age 66)  Hartstown, Pennsylvania, USA

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2 years
wife
Rosie M. Wallace

Birth 1874  

Death 1941 (Age 67)  

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Marriage: yes
#1 daughter
Helen Hays

Death yes  

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#2 daughter
Lucille Hays

Death yes  

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Robert Lewis G. Hays has 25 first cousins recorded

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Mother's family (25)

Parents William Gibson + Elizabeth Mc Nutt
1 James M. Gibson 1868–1924
2 Ida Gertrude Gibson 1873–1970
3 Jesse Gibson 1882–1973
4 Female Gibson 1900–?
Parents John A. Blair + Jane Gibson
1 Martha "Mattie" E. Blair 1870–1905
2 Lizzy Blair ?–?
Parents James Gibson Jr + … Blanche
1 Noel Gibson ?–?
2 William Arthur Gibson ?–?
3 Gladys Gibson ?–?
4 Maude Gibson ?–?
Parents John T. Clements + Annie Gibson
1 Minnie Clements ?–1928
2 Pearl Clements ?–?
3 John T. Clements ?–?
4 William H. Clements ?–1926
5 Dewitt Issac Clements ?–?
Parents Daniel Gibson + … Maggie
1 John Gibson 1907–?
2 Martha (Tootsie) Gibson ?–?
Parents John Gibson + Kate Mc Cann
1 Margh Gibson 1888–1973
2 Robert James Gibson 1889–1953
3 Raymond Leroy Gibson Sr 1894–1959
4 Bessie Gibson 1899–1924
5 Richard W. Gibson 1907–1998
6 Raymond Gibson ?–?
Parents Samuel Richard "Dick" Gibson + Unnamed …
1 Martha Gibson ?–?
2 Ethel Gibson ?–1923

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