James VernonAge: 631857–1921
- Name
- James Vernon
- Given names
- James
- Surname
- Vernon
| Birth | 26 October 1857 23 23 Kirkcudbright, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland |
| Marriage of parents | View family 26 October 1857 Kirkmabreck, Scotland
father -
James Vernon
mother -
Elizabeth Carson
|
| Occupation | Mariner |
| 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 sister | 28 November 1858 (Age 13 months) Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
younger sister -
Elizabeth Jane Vernon
|
| Australian History | 1858 (Age 2 months) Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph. Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote. |
| Australian History | 1859 (Age 14 months) 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 brother | 31 March 1860 (Age 2) Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
younger brother -
John Stewart Vernon
|
| Australian History | 1860 (Age 2) Note: John McDouall Stuart reaches the centre of the continent. South Australian border changed from 132 degrees E to 129 degrees E. |
| Birth of a brother | 21 December 1861 (Age 4) Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
younger brother -
William Carson Vernon
|
| Australian History | 1861 (Age 3) 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 4) Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E. |
| Australian History | 1863 (Age 5) Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales. |
| Birth of a brother | 22 January 1864 (Age 6) Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
younger brother -
Alexander Vernon
|
| Birth of a brother | 24 March 1866 (Age 8) Creetown, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
younger brother -
Peter Carson Vernon
|
| Australian History | 1867 (Age 9) Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. |
| Birth of a brother | 23 February 1868 (Age 10) Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
younger brother -
Agnes Lindsay Vernon
|
| Australian History | 1868 (Age 10) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
| Australian History | 1869 (Age 11) Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. |
| Birth of a sister | 22 December 1870 (Age 13) Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
younger sister -
Margaret Carson Vernon
|
| Australian History | 1872 (Age 14) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Birth of a sister | 24 March 1873 (Age 15) Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
younger sister -
Catherine McGaw Vernon
|
| Australian History | 1873 (Age 15) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Death of a paternal grandmother | July 1874 (Age 16) Creetown, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
paternal grandmother -
Jean Stewart
|
| Australian History | 1875 (Age 17) 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 20) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | 20 March 1879 (Age 21) Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
paternal grandfather -
Samuel Vernon
|
| Australian History | 1879 (Age 21) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 22) Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work. |
| Marriage | Margaret Mc Dowall - View family 24 February 1882 (Age 24) Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland |
| Australian History | 1882 (Age 24) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Marriage of a brother | William Carson Vernon - View family 18 October 1883 (Age 25) Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
younger brother -
William Carson Vernon
sister-in-law -
Maggie Coltart Naylor
|
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 25) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Death of a sister | 22 April 1885 (Age 27) Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
younger sister -
Elizabeth Jane Vernon
|
| Birth of a son #1 | 1887 (Age 29)
son -
James Vernon
|
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 29) 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 31) 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 32) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 33) 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 34) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Birth of a son #2 | about 1893 (Age 35)
son -
Peter Vernon
|
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 35) 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 36) 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. |
| Death of a father | 17 March 1895 (Age 37) Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
father -
James Vernon
|
| Marriage of a sister | Catherine McGaw Vernon - View family 12 July 1895 (Age 37) Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
brother-in-law -
Robert Brown
younger sister -
Catherine McGaw Vernon
|
| Australian History | 1895 (Age 37) 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 38) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Death of a brother | 18 February 1897 (Age 39) London, England
younger brother -
Alexander Vernon
|
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 39) 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 40) 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 41) 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. |
| Birth of a son #3 | 9 June 1900 (Age 42) Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
son -
David Mc Dowall Vernon
|
| Australian History | 1900 (Age 42) 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 43) 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 44) 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 45) 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 46) 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 48) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 50) Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead |
| Death of a mother | 1909 (Age 51) Lancashire, England
mother -
Elizabeth Carson
|
| Australian History | 1909 (Age 51) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 52) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 53) 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 54) 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 55) 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 55) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 56) 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 57) 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 |
| Death of a son | 22 August 1916 (Age 58) Salonika Military Cemetary, Salonika, , Greece
son -
Peter Vernon
|
| Australian History | 1916 (Age 58) 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 |
| Marriage of a son | David Mc Dowall Vernon - View family 1917 (Age 59) Blythswood, Glasgow, Scotland
son -
David Mc Dowall Vernon
daughter-in-law -
Mary Cummings
|
| Australian History | 1917 (Age 59) 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. |
| Birth of a grandson #1 | 1918 (Age 60) Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
grandson -
James Vernon
|
| Death of a son | 25 August 1918 (Age 60) Mont Kemmel, France
son -
James Vernon
|
| Australian History | 1918 (Age 60) 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 61) 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 62) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 63) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Death | 27 February 1921 (Age 63) Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
James Vernon
Birth 17 May 1834 31 30 Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland Death 17 March 1895 (Age 60) Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland |
| mother |
Elizabeth Carson
Birth 17 May 1834 Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland Death 1909 (Age 74) Lancashire, England |
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Marriage: 26 October 1857 — Kirkmabreck, Scotland |
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| #1 himself |
James Vernon
Birth 26 October 1857 23 23 Kirkcudbright, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Death 27 February 1921 (Age 63) Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland |
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13 months #2 younger sister |
Elizabeth Jane Vernon
Birth 28 November 1858 24 24 Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland Death 22 April 1885 (Age 26) Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland |
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16 months #3 younger brother |
Birth 31 March 1860 25 25 Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Death 21 March 1943 (Age 82) Milford, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA |
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21 months #4 younger brother |
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2 years #5 younger brother |
Alexander Vernon
Birth 22 January 1864 29 29 Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Death 18 February 1897 (Age 33) London, England |
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2 years #6 younger brother |
Peter Carson Vernon
Birth 24 March 1866 31 31 Creetown, Kirkcudbright, Scotland Death yes |
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23 months #7 younger brother |
Agnes Lindsay Vernon
Birth 23 February 1868 33 33 Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland Death yes |
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3 years #8 younger sister |
Margaret Carson Vernon
Birth 22 December 1870 36 36 Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland Death yes |
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2 years #9 younger sister |
Catherine McGaw Vernon
Birth 24 March 1873 38 38 Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland Death 1949 (Age 75) Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland |
| Family with Margaret Mc Dowall - View family |
| himself |
James Vernon
Birth 26 October 1857 23 23 Kirkcudbright, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Death 27 February 1921 (Age 63) Creetown, Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland |
|
5 years wife |
Margaret Mc Dowall
Birth 21 October 1862 31 30 Kirkcudbright, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Death 13 April 1928 (Age 65) Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland |
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Marriage: 24 February 1882 — Kirkmabreck, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland |
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|
5 years #1 son |
James Vernon
Birth 1887 29 24 Death 25 August 1918 (Age 31) Mont Kemmel, France |
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6 years #2 son |
Peter Vernon
Birth about 1893 35 30 Death 22 August 1916 (Age 23) Salonika Military Cemetary, Salonika, , Greece |
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7 years #3 son |
Birth 9 June 1900 42 37 Creetown, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Death 22 September 1966 (Age 66) Dumfries, Dumfries, Scotland |
James Vernon has 2 first cousins recorded
Father's family (2)
Parents John Vernon + Elizabeth Dargavel
Mother's family (0)
| Australian History | 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. |
| Australian History | Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph. |
| Australian History | SS Admella wrecked off south-east coast of South Australia with the loss of 89 lives. |
| Australian History | John McDouall Stuart reaches the centre of the continent. South Australian border changed from 132 degrees E to 129 degrees E. |
| Australian History | The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs. |
| Australian History | Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E. |
| Australian History | South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales. |
| Australian History | Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. |
| Australian History | The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
| Australian History | Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. |
| Australian History | Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Australian History | Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Australian History | SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives. |
| Australian History | First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. |
| Marriage | THE Marriage Certificate shows the Witnesses to be William
O'Hara and Maggie Taylor |
| Marriage | THE Marriage Certificate shows the Witnesses to be William
O'Hara and Maggie Taylor |
| Australian History | First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway |
| Australian History | 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 | The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. |
| Australian History | The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | A National Australasian Convention meets, agrees on adopting the name 'the Commonwealth of Australia' and drafting a constitution. |
| Australian History | Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 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 | 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 | The premiers, except for those of Queensland and Western Australia, agree to implement the Corowa proposals. |
| Australian History | The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 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. |
| Australian History | The Convention agrees on a final draft to be put to the people. |
| Australian History | The decision is made to site the national capital in New South Wales, but not within 100 miles of Sydney. |
| Australian History | Several delegates visit London to resist proposed changes to the agreed-upon constitution. |
| Australian History | (01 Jan) Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General |
| Australian History | 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. |
| Australian History | The High Court of Australia is established with Samuel Griffith as the first Chief Justice. |
| Australian History | A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital |
| Australian History | Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country |
| Australian History | The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | The Royal Australian Navy is founded |
| Australian History | Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time |
| Australian History | Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains. |
| Australian History | The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 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 | (25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April. |
| Australian History | Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill' |
| Australian History | Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed. |
| Australian History | (08 AUG) Battle of Amiens |
| Australian History | 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 | The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |