John McCaigAge: 581881–1940
- Name
- John McCaig
- Given names
- John
- Surname
- McCaig
| Birth | 23 August 1881 47 40 Ravenscroft Cottage, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland |
| Australian History | 1882 (Age 4 months) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 16 months) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Birth of a brother | 4 February 1887 (Age 5) Littlemill, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland
younger brother -
Ivie McCaig
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| Australian History | 1887 (Age 5) 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 7) 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 8) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Census | 5 April 1891 (Age 9) Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland Note: Son age 9 Scholar bn Ochiltree |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 9) 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 10) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 11) 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 12) 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 13) Main St, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland
maternal grandmother -
Jean Graham
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| Australian History | 1895 (Age 13) 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 14) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 15) 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 16) 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 17) 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 18) 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 19) Littlemill House, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland Note: Son single 19 Draper bn Ochiltree AYR |
| Australian History | 1901 (Age 19) 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 20) 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 21) 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 23) Coil Bank Cottage, Littlemill, Patna, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland
mother -
Christina Morrison
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| Australian History | 1904 (Age 22) 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 24) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 26) 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 27) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Residence | 16 June 1910 (Age 28) 48 Castent Street, Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland Note: Boot traveller |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 28) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 29) 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 30) 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 31) 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 31) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Death of a sister | 6 February 1914 (Age 32) 11 Clover Park, Waterside, Ayrshire, Scotland
elder sister -
Isabella McCaig
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| Death of a father | 6 November 1914 (Age 33) Coilbank, Littlemill, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland
father -
John McCaig
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| Australian History | 1914 (Age 32) 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 33) 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 34) 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 35) 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 36) 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 37) 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 38) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 39) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Death of a sister | 9 April 1922 (Age 40) Dalmaca Toll, By Patna, Ayrshire, Scotland
elder sister -
Christina McCaig
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| Australian History | 1922 (Age 40) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 41) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Death of a brother | 9 May 1925 (Age 43) Littlemill, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland
elder brother -
Thomas McCaig
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| Death of a brother | 20 February 1926 (Age 44) Littlemill, Patna, Ayrshire, Scotland
younger brother -
Ivie McCaig
|
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 44) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 45) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 46) 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 47) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 48) 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 49) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 50) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1933 (Age 51) 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 of a brother | 13 July 1934 (Age 52) Littlemill, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland
elder brother -
James McCaig
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| Death of a sister | 14 February 1935 (Age 53) Coilbank Cottages, Littlemill, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland
elder sister -
Jane McCaig
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| Australian History | 1936 (Age 54) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | 1937 (Age 55) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 56) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 57) Note: (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government Note: (September) Australia enters the Second World War following the German Invasion of Poland. The 2nd Australian Imperial Force is raised. Note: The first flight is made by an Australian-made warplane, the Wirraway Note: Victoria is devastated by the Black Friday bushfires |
| Australian History | 1940 (Age 58) Note: A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin Note: Fascist Italy enters war, Royal Australian Navy engages Italian Navy in the early stages of the Battle of the Mediterranean. |
| Death | 28 July 1940 (Age 58) Victoria, Australia Infirmary, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, 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...
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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...
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Marriage: 1 October 1858 — Burnockhead, Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland |
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Male McCaig
Birth 6 October 1858 24 17 Dalgig, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 6 October 1858 Dalgig, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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3 years #8 elder 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...
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3 years #9 elder 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...
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2 years #10 himself |
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...
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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...
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John McCaig has 32 first cousins recorded
Father's family (32)
Parents Ivie McCaig + Margaret McMillan
Parents David Stevenson + Margaret McCaig
Parents George Park + Margaret McCaig
Parents Ivie Campbell + Christina McCaig
Parents Edward Irvin McCaig + Marion Allan
Parents Thomas McCaig + Mary Fisher
Parents William McCaig + Jean McKerrow
Mother's family (0)
| 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 age 9 Scholar bn Ochiltree |
| 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 19 Draper bn Ochiltree 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. |
| Residence | Boot traveller |
| 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 |
| Australian History | The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government |
| Australian History | A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin |
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