Eliza Colquhoun ?

Eliza Colquhoun?–?

Name: Eliza Colquhoun

Given names: Eliza

Surname: Colquhoun

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Marriage	James Rankin - View family
Australian History	1808 Note: The Rum Rebellion
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 Note: Oxley charts the Macquarie River.
Australian History	1824 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 Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed.
Australian History	1828 Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.
Australian History	1829 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 Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.
Australian History	1831 Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Australian History	1832 Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Australian History	1833 Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Birth of a son #1	1835 Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland son - Andrew Rankin
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 Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History	1838 Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History	1839 Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History	1840 Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Australian History	1841 Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History	1842 Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History	1843 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 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 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 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 Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History	1854 Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History	1855 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 Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History	1857 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.
Birth of a grandson #1	October 1858 Letterkenny, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland grandson - John Rankin
Australian History	1858 Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph. Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History	1859 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.
Birth of a grandson #2	4 April 1860 Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia grandson - David Rankin
Marriage of a son	Andrew Rankin - View family about 1860 Donegal, Ireland son - Andrew Rankin daughter-in-law - Eleanor Buchanan
Australian History	1860 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 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 Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Birth of a grandson #3	10 August 1863 Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia grandson - Robert Rankin
Australian History	1863 Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Birth of a granddaughter #4	1866 Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia granddaughter - Margaret Jane Rankin
Death of a granddaughter	1866 Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia granddaughter - Margaret Jane Rankin
Australian History	1867 Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Australian History	1868 Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History	1869 Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.
Birth of a grandson #5	17 July 1870 Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia grandson - Andrew Sampson Thomas Rankin
Birth of a grandson #6	16 June 1872 grandson - James Buchanan Rankin Sr.
Australian History	1872 Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History	1873 Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History	1875 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 grandson #7	19 May 1878 Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia grandson - Gregory Rankin
Australian History	1878 Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History	1879 Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History	1880 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 grandson	David Rankin - View family 2 October 1882 Bendigo, Victoria, Australia grandson - David Rankin grandson's wife - Ann Hendry
Australian History	1882 Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Marriage of a grandson	John Rankin - View family 3 December 1883 Bendigo, Victoria, Australia grandson - John Rankin grandson's wife - Jean Bain
Australian History	1883 Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Australian History	1887 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 Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration.
Australian History	1890 Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History	1891 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 Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History	1893 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 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 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 Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History	1897 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.
Death of a grandson	30 September 1898 Spring Gully Rd, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia grandson - John Rankin
Australian History	1898 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 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.
Death of a husband	1900 husband - James Rankin
Australian History	1900 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 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
Marriage of a grandson	Andrew Sampson Thomas Rankin - View family 1902 Bendigo, Victoria, Australia grandson - Andrew Sampson Thomas Rankin grandson's wife - Catherine Ashley
Australian History	1902 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 grandson	James Buchanan Rankin Sr. - View family 1903 grandson - James Buchanan Rankin Sr. grandson's wife - Ellenor Mary Starritt
Australian History	1903 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 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 Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Australian History	1908 Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead
Australian History	1909 Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History	1910 Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History	1911 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.
Death of a son	1912 Rochester, Victoria, Australia son - Andrew Rankin
Australian History	1912 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
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husband	James Rankin Birth 1820 Death 1900 (Age 80) Loading...
herself	Eliza Colquhoun Death yes Loading...
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#1 son	Andrew Rankin Birth 1835 15 Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland Death 1912 (Age 77) Rochester, Victoria, Australia Loading...

Eliza Colquhoun?–?

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