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Helen Ferguson1827–?

Name
Helen Ferguson
Given names
Helen
Surname
Ferguson

Helen McClellan

Name
Helen McClellan
Given names
Helen
Surname
McClellan

Helen Rowan

Name
Helen Rowan
Given names
Helen
Surname
Rowan
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Birth about 1827 31 29
 

Birth of a son
#1
 Australia

son - David McClellan
Birth of a son
#2
 Australia

son - John McClellan
Birth of a son
#3
 Australia

son - David McClellan
Birth of a sister 14 August 1828 (Age 19 months)
 Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

younger sister - Agnes Ferguson
Australian History 1828 (Age 12 months)
 

Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.
Australian History 1829 (Age 2)
 

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 (Age 3)
 

Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.
Birth of a sister 9 April 1831 (Age 4)
 Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

younger sister - Jessie Campbell Ferguson
Death of a maternal grandfather 28 July 1831 (Age 4)
 Dalgig, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

maternal grandfather - Ivie Campbell
Australian History 1831 (Age 4)
 

Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Australian History 1832 (Age 5)
 

Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Birth of a brother about 1833 (Age 6)
 Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland

younger brother - Ivie Ferguson
Australian History 1833 (Age 6)
 

Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History 1835 (Age 8)
 

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 9)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Birth of a sister about 1838 (Age 11)
 

younger sister - Elizabeth Ferguson
Australian History 1838 (Age 11)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History 1839 (Age 12)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History 1840 (Age 13)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Birth of a brother about 1841 (Age 14)
 

younger brother - William Ferguson
Census 7 June 1841 (Age 14)
 Wood Of Auchleand, Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Note: Helen 14 Yes
Australian History 1841 (Age 14)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 15)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 16)
 

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).
MarriageJohn McClellan - View family
3 March 1844 (Age 17)
 Penninghame, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death of a maternal grandmother 4 August 1844 (Age 17)
 Dalgig, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

maternal grandmother - Margaret Dunbar
Australian History 1845 (Age 18)
 

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.
Birth of a daughter
#4		 1846 (Age 19)
 

daughter - Helen McClelland
Marriage of a sisterMargaret Ferguson - View family
1848 (Age 21)
 Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland

brother-in-law - William Walbram
elder sister - Margaret Ferguson
Australian History 1850 (Age 23)
 

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 24)
 

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
Marriage of a sisterAgnes Ferguson - View family
22 April 1852 (Age 25)
 

brother-in-law - David McCall
younger sister - Agnes Ferguson
Australian History 1853 (Age 26)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Marriage of a sisterJessie Campbell Ferguson - View family
5 June 1854 (Age 27)
 Glenluce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

brother-in-law - Peter Skelly Reid
younger sister - Jessie Campbell Ferguson
Australian History 1854 (Age 27)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 28)
 

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.
Death of a sister 12 August 1856 (Age 29)
 Wood Of Aucheland, Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland

elder sister - Margaret Ferguson
Australian History 1856 (Age 29)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Marriage of a brotherIvie Ferguson - View family
26 March 1857 (Age 30)
 Wigtownshire, Scotland

younger brother - Ivie Ferguson
sister-in-law - Anne McQuaker
Australian History 1857 (Age 30)
 

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 31)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1859 (Age 32)
 

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 33)
 

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 son
#5		 25 January 1861 (Age 34)
 Australia

son - Thomas Bayliss McClellan
Australian History 1861 (Age 34)
 

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 sister 24 December 1862 (Age 35)
 New Zealand

elder sister - Jane Ferguson
Australian History 1862 (Age 35)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Death of a father 25 June 1863 (Age 36)
 Lochenbreck Well, Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

father - David Ferguson
Australian History 1863 (Age 36)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Birth of a daughter
#6		 1864 (Age 37)
 Australia

daughter - Jessie McClellan
Birth of a son
#7		 1866 (Age 39)
 Australia

son - William McClellan
Marriage of a brotherWilliam Ferguson - View family
2 August 1867 (Age 40)
 Glasserton, Wigtownshire, Scotland

younger brother - William Ferguson
sister-in-law - Janet McCormick
Death of a husband 1867 (Age 40)
 MT Prospect, Victoria, Australia

husband - John McClellan
Death of a mother 4 April 1867 (Age 40)
 Wood Of Auchleand, Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland

mother - Helen Campbell
Australian History 1867 (Age 40)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Australian History 1868 (Age 41)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 42)
 

Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.
MarriageJohn Rowan - View family
1871 (Age 44)
 Victoria, Australia

Australian History 1872 (Age 45)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 46)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History 1875 (Age 48)
 

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 51)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 52)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 53)
 

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 55)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 56)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Death of a husband 1887 (Age 60)
 Devenish, Victoria, Australia

husband - John Rowan
Australian History 1887 (Age 60)
 

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 62)
 

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 63)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History 1891 (Age 64)
 

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 65)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History 1893 (Age 66)
 

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.
Death of a brother 6 August 1894 (Age 67)
 13 Arthur Street, Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, Scotland

younger brother - Ivie Ferguson
Australian History 1894 (Age 67)
 

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 68)
 

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 69)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History 1897 (Age 70)
 

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 brother 25 October 1898 (Age 71)
 Balminoch, Kirkcowan, Wigtownshire, Scotland

younger brother - William Ferguson
Australian History 1898 (Age 71)
 

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 72)
 

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 73)
 

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 74)
 

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
Death of a sister 17 June 1902 (Age 75)
 Barlauchlan Croft, Newton Stewart, Penninghame, Wigtownshire, Scotland

younger sister - Jessie Campbell Ferguson
Australian History 1902 (Age 75)
 

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 76)
 

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 77)
 

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 79)
 

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Australian History 1908 (Age 81)
 

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 82)
 

Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History 1910 (Age 83)
 

Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History 1911 (Age 84)
 

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 85)
 

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 86)
 

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 86)
 

Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History 1914 (Age 87)
 

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 88)
 

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 89)
 

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 90)
 

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 91)
 

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 92)
 

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 93)
 

Note: The airline Qantas is founded
Australian History 1921 (Age 94)
 

Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament
Australian History 1922 (Age 95)
 

Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney
Death of a sister 28 June 1923 (Age 96)
 Gosford, New South Wales, Australia

younger sister - Agnes Ferguson
Australian History 1923 (Age 96)
 

Note: Vegemite is first produced
Australian History 1926 (Age 99)
 

Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held
Australian History 1927 (Age 100)
 

Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital
Australian History 1928 (Age 101)
 

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 102)
 

Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary
Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia.
Australian History 1930 (Age 103)
 

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 104)
 

Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia
Deathyes
 

Family with parents - View family
father
David Ferguson

Birth 1796  Carsphairn, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death 25 June 1863 (Age 67)  Lochenbreck Well, Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

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2 years
mother
Helen Campbell

Birth about 1798 43 37  New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death 4 April 1867 (Age 69)  Wood Of Auchleand, Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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Marriage: about 1820
1 year
#1 elder brother
David Ferguson

Birth about 1821 25 23  

Death  Western Australia, Australia

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5 years
#2 elder sister
Jane Ferguson

Birth about 1826 30 28  

Death 24 December 1862 (Age 36)  New Zealand

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-3 years
#3 elder sister
Margaret Ferguson

Birth about 1823 27 25  

Death 12 August 1856 (Age 33)  Wood Of Aucheland, Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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4 years
#4 herself
Helen Ferguson

Birth about 1827 31 29  

Death yes  

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19 months
#5 younger sister
Agnes Ferguson

Birth 14 August 1828 32 30  Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death 28 June 1923 (Age 94)  Gosford, New South Wales, Australia

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3 years
#6 younger sister
Jessie Campbell Ferguson

Birth 9 April 1831 35 33  Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death 17 June 1902 (Age 71)  Barlauchlan Croft, Newton Stewart, Penninghame, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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21 months
#7 younger brother
Ivie Ferguson

Birth about 1833 37 35  Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 6 August 1894 (Age 61)  13 Arthur Street, Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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5 years
#8 younger sister
Elizabeth Ferguson

Birth about 1838 42 40  

Death yes  

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3 years
#9 younger brother
William Ferguson

Birth about 1841 45 43  

Death 25 October 1898 (Age 57)  Balminoch, Kirkcowan, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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Family with John Rowan - View family
husband
John Rowan

Birth 26 August 1829 47 37  Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death 1887 (Age 57)  Devenish, Victoria, Australia

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-3 years
herself
Helen Ferguson

Birth about 1827 31 29  

Death yes  

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Marriage: 1871 — Victoria, Australia
Family with John McClellan - View family
husband
John McClellan

Birth  Penninghame, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 1867  MT Prospect, Victoria, Australia

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herself
Helen Ferguson

Birth about 1827 31 29  

Death yes  

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Marriage: 3 March 1844 — Penninghame, Wigtownshire, Scotland
22 months
#1 daughter
Helen McClelland

Birth 1846 19  

Death yes  

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#2 daughter
Mary Anne McClellan

Death yes  

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#3 son
David McClellan

Birth  Australia

Death yes  

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#4 son
John McClellan

Birth  Australia

Death yes  

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#5 son
David McClellan

Birth  Australia

Death yes  

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#6 son
Thomas Bayliss McClellan

Birth 25 January 1861 34  Australia

Death 17 May 1936 (Age 75)  Australia

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3 years
#7 daughter
Jessie McClellan

Birth 1864 37  Australia

Death yes  

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2 years
#8 son
William McClellan

Birth 1866 39  Australia

Death yes  

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Helen Ferguson has 49 first cousins recorded

Father's family (0)

Mother's family (49)

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 Alexander Rowan + Tomina Campbell
1 Margaret Rowan 1816–?
2 Ivie Rowan 1817–1847
3 Georgina Rowan 1820–1900
4 Mary Rowan 1823–?
5 Andrew Rowan 1825–1889
6 Thomas Rowan 1827–?
7 John Rowan 1829–1887
8 Elizabeth Rowan 1831–1899
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 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
 
Australian History
Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.

Australian History
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
Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.

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.

Census
Helen 14 Yes

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.

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

Australian History
The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney

Australian History
Vegemite is first produced

Australian History
The first Miss Australia contest is held

Australian History
The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital

Australian History
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
Western Australia celebrates its centenary

Australian History
Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings

Australian History
Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia


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