Isabella McCaig 1876

Isabella McCaigAge: 371876–1914

Name: Isabella McCaig

Given names: Isabella

Surname: McCaig

Isabella Borland

Name: Isabella Borland

Given names: Isabella

Surname: Borland

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Birth	4 December 1876 42 36 Dixton, Stair, Ayrshire, Scotland
Australian History	1878 (Age 12 months) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Birth of a sister	12 August 1879 (Age 2) Tenshillingland, Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland younger sister - Jessie Elizabeth McCaig
Australian History	1879 (Age 2) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History	1880 (Age 3) 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 4) Ravenscroft Cottage, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland Note: Dau 4yr Bn Stair AYR
Birth of a brother	23 August 1881 (Age 4) Ravenscroft Cottage, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland younger brother - John McCaig
Australian History	1882 (Age 5) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History	1883 (Age 6) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Birth of a brother	4 February 1887 (Age 10) Littlemill, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland younger brother - Ivie McCaig
Australian History	1887 (Age 10) 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 12) 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 13) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Census	5 April 1891 (Age 14) Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland Note: Daughter 14 Housemaid Bn Stair AYR
Australian History	1891 (Age 14) 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 15) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History	1893 (Age 16) 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 17) 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 18) Main St, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland maternal grandmother - Jean Graham
Australian History	1895 (Age 18) 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 19) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History	1897 (Age 20) 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 21) 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 22) 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 23) 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 24) Note: Not at home
Residence	14 August 1901 (Age 24) Littlemill, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland Note: Domestic Servant
Australian History	1901 (Age 24) 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 25) 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 26) 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 27) Coil Bank Cottage, Littlemill, Patna, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland mother - Christina Morrison
Australian History	1904 (Age 27) 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 29) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Australian History	1908 (Age 31) 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 32) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History	1910 (Age 33) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History	1911 (Age 34) 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 35) 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 36) 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 36) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History	1914 (Age 37) 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.
Death	6 February 1914 (Age 37) 11 Clover Park, Waterside, 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 elder brother	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 elder 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 elder 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 elder 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 herself	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...

Isabella 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	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	Dau 4yr Bn Stair 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	Daughter 14 Housemaid Bn Stair AYR
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	Not at home
Residence	Domestic Servant
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.