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Emma Jane WittsAge: 691835–1904

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Emma Jane Witts
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Emma Jane
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Birth 1835
 

MarriageGeorge Hendry - View family
 

Australian History 1835
 

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 12 months)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History 1838 (Age 3)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History 1839 (Age 4)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History 1840 (Age 5)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Australian History 1841 (Age 6)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 7)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 8)
 

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 10)
 

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 15)
 

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 16)
 

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 18)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History 1854 (Age 19)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 20)
 

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 21)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 22)
 

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 23)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1859 (Age 24)
 

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 25)
 

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 26)
 

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 27)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 28)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Birth of a daughter
#1		 1865 (Age 30)
 Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia

daughter - Ann Hendry
Australian History 1867 (Age 32)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Australian History 1868 (Age 33)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 34)
 

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 37)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 38)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History 1875 (Age 40)
 

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 43)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 44)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 45)
 

Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged.
Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work.
Marriage of a daughterAnn Hendry - View family
2 October 1882 (Age 47)
 Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

son-in-law - David Rankin
daughter - Ann Hendry
Australian History 1882 (Age 47)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Birth of a granddaughter
#1		 1883 (Age 48)
 Yallook, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Annie Florence Rankin
Australian History 1883 (Age 48)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Birth of a granddaughter
#2		 1887 (Age 52)
 Yallook, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Eleanor Jane Rankin
Australian History 1887 (Age 52)
 

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 54)
 

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 55)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Birth of a grandson
#3		 1891 (Age 56)
 Eaglehawk, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

grandson - George Rankin
Australian History 1891 (Age 56)
 

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 57)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History 1893 (Age 58)
 

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 59)
 

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 60)
 

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
Death of a husband 1896 (Age 61)
 

husband - George Hendry
Australian History 1896 (Age 61)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Birth of a granddaughter
#4		 1897 (Age 62)
 Eaglehawk, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Ellen May Rankin
Australian History 1897 (Age 62)
 

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 63)
 

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 64)
 

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 65)
 

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 66)
 

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
Birth of a grandson
#5		 1902 (Age 67)
 Yallook, Victoria, Australia

grandson - William Andrew Rankin
Australian History 1902 (Age 67)
 

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
Marriage of a granddaughterAnnie Florence Rankin - View family
5 March 1903 (Age 68)
 

granddaughter's husband - John Rodgers
granddaughter - Annie Florence Rankin
Australian History 1903 (Age 68)
 

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 (on the date of death)
 

Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital
Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government
Death 1904 (Age 69)
 

Family with George Hendry - View family
husband
George Hendry

Birth 1822  

Death 1896 (Age 74)  

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Emma Jane Witts

Birth 1835  

Death 1904 (Age 69)  

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#1 daughter
Ann Hendry

Birth 1865 43 30  Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia

Death 1946 (Age 81)  Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

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