Elizabeth Rowan 1831

Elizabeth RowanAge: 671831–1899

Name: Elizabeth Rowan

Given names: Elizabeth

Surname: Rowan

Eliza Rattray

Name: Eliza Rattray

Given names: Eliza

Surname: Rattray

Eliza Rowan

Name: Eliza Rowan

Given names: Eliza

Surname: Rowan

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Birth	6 December 1831 49 39 Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland
Australian History	1831 Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Australian History	1832 (Age 26 days) Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Australian History	1833 (Age 12 months) Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History	1835 (Age 3) 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 4) Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History	1838 (Age 6) Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History	1839 (Age 7) Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History	1840 (Age 8) Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Death of a mother	5 November 1841 (Age 9) Kellintrae, Mochrum, Wigtown, Scotland mother - Tomina Campbell
Australian History	1841 (Age 9) Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History	1842 (Age 10) Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Marriage of a sister	Margaret Rowan - View family 1843 (Age 11) brother-in-law - Robert Wilson elder sister - Margaret Rowan
Australian History	1843 (Age 11) 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).
Death of a maternal grandmother	4 August 1844 (Age 12) Dalgig, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland maternal grandmother - Margaret Dunbar
Marriage of a sister	Georgina Rowan - View family 17 June 1845 (Age 13) Killantrae, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland brother-in-law - Alexander Stewart elder sister - Georgina Rowan
Australian History	1845 (Age 13) 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.
Death of a brother	25 November 1847 (Age 15) Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland elder brother - Ivie Rowan
Australian History	1850 (Age 18) 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 19) 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 21) Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History	1854 (Age 22) Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History	1855 (Age 23) 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 24) Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History	1857 (Age 25) 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 26) Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph. Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Marriage of a brother	Andrew Rowan - View family 14 April 1859 (Age 27) Mochrum, Scotland elder brother - Andrew Rowan sister-in-law - Margaret Mactier
Marriage	Thomas Armstrong Rattray - View family 29 April 1859 (Age 27) Penninghame, Wigtownshire, Scotland
Marriage of a brother	Thomas Rowan - View family 1859 (Age 27) Victoria, Australia elder brother - Thomas Rowan sister-in-law - Annie Anderson
Australian History	1859 (Age 27) 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 28) 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 29) Note: The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs. Note: skiing in Australia introduced by Norwegians in the Snowy Mountains goldrush town of Kiandra
Death of a father	3 July 1862 (Age 30) Ayr, Scotland father - Alexander Rowan
Australian History	1862 (Age 30) Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History	1863 (Age 31) Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Marriage of a sister	Mary Rowan - View family 1864 (Age 32) Victoria, Australia brother-in-law - George Toogood Hickox elder sister - Mary Rowan
Australian History	1867 (Age 35) Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Australian History	1868 (Age 36) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History	1869 (Age 37) Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.
Marriage of a brother	John Rowan - View family 1871 (Age 39) Victoria, Australia elder brother - John Rowan sister-in-law - Helen Ferguson
Australian History	1872 (Age 40) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History	1873 (Age 41) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History	1875 (Age 43) 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 46) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History	1879 (Age 47) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History	1880 (Age 48) 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 50) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History	1883 (Age 51) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Death of a brother	1887 (Age 55) Devenish, Victoria, Australia elder brother - John Rowan
Australian History	1887 (Age 55) 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.
Death of a brother	26 October 1889 (Age 57) Barbower, Kyneton, Victoria, Australia elder brother - Andrew Rowan
Residence	1889 (Age 57) Elmore, Victoria, Australia Note: at death of brother Andrew
Australian History	1889 (Age 57) 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 58) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History	1891 (Age 59) 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 60) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History	1893 (Age 61) 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 62) 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 63) 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 64) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History	1897 (Age 65) 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 66) 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 (on the date of death) 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	1899 (Age 67) Elmore, Victoria, Australia

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father	Alexander Rowan Birth 8 February 1782 Death 3 July 1862 (Age 80) Ayr, Scotland Loading...
10 years mother	Tomina Campbell Birth 17 January 1792 37 31 New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 5 November 1841 (Age 49) Kellintrae, Mochrum, Wigtown, Scotland Loading...
	Marriage: 24 June 1815 — New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
10 months #1 elder sister	Margaret Rowan Birth 3 May 1816 34 24 Barr, Ayrshire, Scotland Death yes Loading...
13 months #2 elder brother	Ivie Rowan Birth 6 June 1817 35 25 Kellintrae, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 25 November 1847 (Age 30) Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland Loading...
3 years #3 elder sister	Georgina Rowan Birth 3 January 1820 37 27 Barr, Scotland Death 22 November 1900 (Age 80) Tatura, Victoria, Australia Loading...
3 years #4 elder sister	Mary Rowan Birth 20 January 1823 40 31 Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland Death yes Loading...
2 years #5 elder brother	Andrew Rowan Birth 16 March 1825 43 33 Berneight Farm, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 26 October 1889 (Age 64) Barbower, Kyneton, Victoria, Australia Loading...
2 years #6 elder brother	Thomas Rowan Birth 18 March 1827 45 35 Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland Death yes Loading...
2 years #7 elder brother	John Rowan Birth 26 August 1829 47 37 Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 1887 (Age 57) Devenish, Victoria, Australia Loading...
2 years #8 herself	Elizabeth Rowan Birth 6 December 1831 49 39 Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 1899 (Age 67) Elmore, Victoria, Australia Loading...

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husband	Thomas Armstrong Rattray Death yes Loading...
herself	Elizabeth Rowan Birth 6 December 1831 49 39 Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 1899 (Age 67) Elmore, Victoria, Australia Loading...
	Marriage: 29 April 1859 — Penninghame, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Elizabeth Rowan has 50 first cousins recorded

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Parents William Graham + Isabel Campbell

1 Ivie (Campbell) Graham 1813–1891

2 Margaret Graham 1813–1873

3 Jean Graham 1816–1895

4 Isabella Graham 1822–1895

5 Elizabeth Graham 1823–1859

6 James Graham 1825–1905

7 Janet Graham 1827–1849

8 Douglas Wills Graham 1829–1906

9 William Graham 1832–1897

10 David Graham 1839–?

Parents William Brown + Jean Campbell

1 William Brown 1814–1881

2 Margaret Brown 1813–1875

3 Janet Brown 1819–1894

4 Mary Brown 1823–?

5 Ivie Brown 1821–1881

6 George Brown 1825–1862

7 Elizabeth Brown 1827–1908

8 Jane Brown 1829–1899

9 Hugh Brown 1833–1915

Parents Andrew Campbell + Janet Campbell

1 Margaret Dunbar Campbell 1821–1889

2 Jane Campbell 1822–1889

3 John Campbell 1823–1882

4 Ivie Campbell 1826–?

5 Isabella Agnes Campbell 1827–?

6 Janet Campbell 1830–1859

7 William Richmond Campbell 1832–1888

8 Helen Campbell 1835–?

9 Andrew Campbell 1838–1903

10 Euphemia Duncan Campbell 1840–1858

Parents David Ferguson + Helen Campbell

1 David Ferguson 1821–?

2 Jane Ferguson 1826–1862

3 Margaret Ferguson 1823–1856

4 Helen Ferguson 1827–?

5 Agnes Ferguson 1828–1923

6 Jessie Campbell Ferguson 1831–1902

7 Ivie Ferguson 1833–1894

8 Elizabeth Ferguson 1838–?

9 William Ferguson 1841–1898

Parents Ivie Campbell + Jean Richmond

1 Ivie Campbell 1833–1910

Parents Thomas McCaig + Wilhemina Campbell

1 Hugh Dunbar McCaig 1826–1883

2 Robert McCaig 1826–1912

3 Ivie McCaig 1829–1890

4 Margaret McCaig 1832–1900

5 Christina McCaig 1832–1892

6 John McCaig 1834–1914

7 George McCaig 1836–1897

8 Edward Irvin McCaig 1838–1918

9 Thomas McCaig 1840–1915

10 William McCaig 1844–1925

11 Jane Richmond McCaig 1848–1868

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Australian History	Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Australian History	Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Australian History	The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History	John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner establish a settlement at Port Phillip, now the city of Melbourne.
Australian History	Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History	First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History	Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History	Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Australian History	New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History	Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History	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	The ship Cataraqui is wrecked off King Island in Bass Strait. It is Australia's worst civil maritime disaster, with 406 lives lost.
Australian History	Western Australia becomes a penal colony.
Australian History	Victoria separates from New South Wales.
Australian History	Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History	The Eureka Stockade
Australian History	The transportation of convicts to Norfolk Island ceases.
Australian History	Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
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.
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.
Residence	at death of brother Andrew
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.