James McCaig 1867

James McCaigAge: 671867–1934

Name: James McCaig

Given names: James

Surname: McCaig

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Birth	6 April 1867 33 26 House Of Water, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
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 (Age 8 months) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Birth of a sister	30 October 1869 (Age 2) Brunstene, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland younger sister - Christina McCaig
Australian History	1869 (Age 20 months) Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.
Census	2 April 1871 (Age 3) Brunstone Farm, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Note: Son, 3yrs, bn New Cumnock
Birth of a sister	16 September 1871 (Age 4) Brunsten, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland younger sister - Wilhelmina McCaig
Australian History	1872 (Age 4) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History	1873 (Age 5) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Birth of a sister	2 February 1874 (Age 6) Dixton, Stair, Ayrshire, Scotland younger sister - Margaret McCaig
Australian History	1875 (Age 7) Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives. Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed.
Death of a paternal grandmother	25 April 1876 (Age 9) Craigman, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland paternal grandmother - Wilhemina Campbell
Birth of a sister	4 December 1876 (Age 9) Dixton, Stair, Ayrshire, Scotland younger sister - Isabella McCaig
Australian History	1878 (Age 10) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Birth of a sister	12 August 1879 (Age 12) Tenshillingland, Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland younger sister - Jessie Elizabeth McCaig
Australian History	1879 (Age 11) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History	1880 (Age 12) Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work.
Census	4 April 1881 (Age 13) Ravenscroft Cottage, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland Note: Son Charpicker Ironstone Labourer 13 Bn New Cumnock AYR
Birth of a brother	23 August 1881 (Age 14) Ravenscroft Cottage, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland younger brother - John McCaig
Australian History	1882 (Age 14) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History	1883 (Age 15) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Birth of a brother	4 February 1887 (Age 19) Littlemill, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland younger brother - Ivie McCaig
Australian History	1887 (Age 19) 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 21) 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 22) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Census	5 April 1891 (Age 23) Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland Note: Son 24 unmarried Foreman Stationary Bn New Cumnock
Australian History	1891 (Age 23) 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 24) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History	1893 (Age 25) 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 26) 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 maternal grandmother	2 April 1895 (Age 27) Main St, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland maternal grandmother - Jean Graham
Australian History	1895 (Age 27) 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 28) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History	1897 (Age 29) 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 30) 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 31) 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 32) 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
Census	31 March 1901 (Age 33) Littlemill House, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland Note: Son single 33 Enginer Keeper - Stationery, bn New Cumnock AYR
Australian History	1901 (Age 33) 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 34) 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 35) 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
Death of a mother	25 September 1904 (Age 37) Coil Bank Cottage, Littlemill, Patna, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland mother - Christina Morrison
Australian History	1904 (Age 36) 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 38) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Australian History	1908 (Age 40) 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 41) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History	1910 (Age 42) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History	1911 (Age 43) 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 44) 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 45) 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 45) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Death of a sister	6 February 1914 (Age 46) 11 Clover Park, Waterside, Ayrshire, Scotland younger sister - Isabella McCaig
Death of a father	6 November 1914 (Age 47) Coilbank, Littlemill, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland father - John McCaig
Australian History	1914 (Age 46) 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 47) 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 48) 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 49) 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 50) 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 51) 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 52) Note: The airline Qantas is founded
Australian History	1921 (Age 53) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament
Death of a sister	9 April 1922 (Age 55) Dalmaca Toll, By Patna, Ayrshire, Scotland younger sister - Christina McCaig
Australian History	1922 (Age 54) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney
Australian History	1923 (Age 55) Note: Vegemite is first produced
Death of a brother	9 May 1925 (Age 58) Littlemill, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland elder brother - Thomas McCaig
Death of a brother	20 February 1926 (Age 58) Littlemill, Patna, Ayrshire, Scotland younger brother - Ivie McCaig
Australian History	1926 (Age 58) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held
Australian History	1927 (Age 59) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital
Australian History	1928 (Age 60) 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 61) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia.
Australian History	1930 (Age 62) 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 63) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia
Australian History	1932 (Age 64) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister
Australian History	1933 (Age 65) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments
Death	13 July 1934 (Age 67) Littlemill, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland

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father	John McCaig Birth about 1834 34 32 Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Death 6 November 1914 (Age 80) Coilbank, Littlemill, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
7 years mother	Christina Morrison Birth 22 November 1840 31 24 New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 25 September 1904 (Age 63) Coil Bank Cottage, Littlemill, Patna, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
	Marriage: 1 October 1858 — Burnockhead, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland
#1 elder brother	Male McCaig Birth 6 October 1858 24 17 Dalgig, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 6 October 1858 Dalgig, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
3 years #2 elder brother	Thomas McCaig Birth 16 April 1861 27 20 Old Coalburn, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 9 May 1925 (Age 64) Littlemill, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
3 years #3 elder sister	Jane McCaig Birth 24 April 1864 30 23 House Of Water, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 14 February 1935 (Age 70) Coilbank Cottages, Littlemill, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
3 years #4 himself	James McCaig Birth 6 April 1867 33 26 House Of Water, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 13 July 1934 (Age 67) Littlemill, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
3 years #5 younger sister	Christina McCaig Birth 30 October 1869 35 28 Brunstene, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 9 April 1922 (Age 52) Dalmaca Toll, By Patna, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
23 months #6 younger sister	Wilhelmina McCaig Birth 16 September 1871 37 30 Brunsten, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 25 January 1943 (Age 71) Coilbank, Littlemill, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
2 years #7 younger sister	Margaret McCaig Birth 2 February 1874 40 33 Dixton, Stair, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 1 March 1950 (Age 76) Coilbank, Littlemill, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
3 years #8 younger sister	Isabella McCaig Birth 4 December 1876 42 36 Dixton, Stair, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 6 February 1914 (Age 37) 11 Clover Park, Waterside, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
3 years #9 younger sister	Jessie Elizabeth McCaig Birth 12 August 1879 45 38 Tenshillingland, Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 10 October 1966 (Age 87) 26 Dalbwie Road, Patna, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
2 years #10 younger brother	John McCaig Birth 23 August 1881 47 40 Ravenscroft Cottage, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 28 July 1940 (Age 58) Victoria, Australia Infirmary, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland Loading...
5 years #11 younger brother	Ivie McCaig Birth 4 February 1887 53 46 Littlemill, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 20 February 1926 (Age 39) Littlemill, Patna, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...

James McCaig has 32 first cousins recorded

Father's family (32)

Parents Ivie McCaig + Margaret McMillan

1 Wilhemina (Campbell) McCaig ?–1927

2 Mary Murdoch McCaig 1866–1910

3 Jane McCaig 1873–1939

4 Thomas McCaig 1875–1942

5 Christina "Aunty Tenee" McCaig 1878–1944

6 Ivie McCaig 1881–1950

Parents David Stevenson + Margaret McCaig

1 Wilhelmina Stevenson 1860–?

2 Christina Stevenson 1860–1926

3 David Stevenson 1861–1889

4 Agnes Jane Stevenson 1864–1893

5 Thomas Stevenson 1866–1871

Parents George Park + Margaret McCaig

1 William Park 1858–?

Parents Ivie Campbell + Christina McCaig

1 Ivie Campbell 1863–1920

2 Jeanie Richmond Campbell 1865–1938

3 Thomas McCaig Campbell 1867–1926

4 John Richmond Campbell 1869–1897

Parents Edward Irvin McCaig + Marion Allan

1 Thomas Edward McCaig 1876–?

Parents Thomas McCaig + Mary Fisher

1 Thomas William McCaig 1866–1950

2 Janet Bailie McCaig 1868–?

3 Wilhelmina Campbell McCaig 1870–1871

4 … McCaig 1873–?

5 William McCaig 1875–?

6 Mary Fisher McCaig 1877–?

7 John Thomas McCaig 1880–?

Parents William McCaig + Jean McKerrow

1 Robert McCaig 1869–1927

2 Jane McCaig 1874–1936

3 Thomas McCaig 1877–1962

4 Alexander McCaig 1878–1945

5 Hugh Dunbar McCaig 1880–1926

6 Wilhelmina Campbell McCaig 1884–1966

7 George McCaig 1889–1949

8 Christina McCaig 1896–1976

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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.
Census	Son, 3yrs, bn New Cumnock
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.
Census	Son Charpicker Ironstone Labourer 13 Bn New Cumnock AYR
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.
Census	Son 24 unmarried Foreman Stationary Bn New Cumnock
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.
Census	Son single 33 Enginer Keeper - Stationery, bn New Cumnock AYR
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
Australian History	The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens
Australian History	Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments