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Garret SpickermanAge: 871806–1894

Name
Garret Spickerman
Given names
Garret
Surname
Spickerman
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Birth 28 November 1806 50 28
 

Note:  THE IGI lists Garridus Spickerman, with parents John Spickerman and Margaret Decker, with a birth da…
THE IGI lists Garridus Spickerman, with parents John Spickerman and Margaret Decker, with a birth date of 28 November 1806 at the Reformed Church, Gallatin, Columbia County, New York. In the 1855 New York State census he stated he had been born in Livingston County, however, he most likely meant he had been born in Livingston, Columbia County. In the 1865 and 1875 NYS censuses he stated he had been born in Columbia County. The IGI lists the death date of Garret as 20 September 1894. He probably died in Waterford, Saratoga County, NY, where he was enumerated in the 1880 census, living with son John. Deborah Spickerman died 22 December 1871, probably in New Baltimore, Greene County, New York. In the 1840 census, Garret "Speakerman" was enumerated in Westerlo, Albany County, NY, page 316. His family consisted of 2 males under 5, 1 male 30-40 and 1 female 20-30. In the censuses of 1850, 1855, 1860, 1865, 1870 and 1880, Garrett was enumerated as shown above.
Australian History 1808 (Age 13 months)
 

Note: The Rum Rebellion
Australian History 1817 (Age 10)
 

Note: John Oxley charts the Lachlan River
Note: Australia's first bank, the Bank of New South Wales, opens in Macquarie Place, Sydney (it became Westpac in 1982).
Note: Governor Lachlan Macquarie petitioned the British Admiralty to use the name 'Australia' instead of 'New Holland'
Australian History 1818 (Age 11)
 

Note: Oxley charts the Macquarie River.
Marriage of a sisterHannah Spickerman - View family
18 March 1820 (Age 13)
 

brother-in-law - James Holmes
sister - Hannah Spickerman
Death of a sister 1820 (Age 13)
 

elder sister - … Spickerman
Australian History 1824 (Age 17)
 

Note: A penal colony is founded at Moreton Bay, now the city of Brisbane.
Note: Bathurst and Melville Islands are annexed.
Note: Permission granted to change the name of the continent from 'New Holland' to 'Australia'
Note: 1824-25 - Hume and Hovell expedition travels overland to Port Phillip Bay, discovers Murray River
Australian History 1825 (Age 18)
 

Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed.
Marriage of a sisterElizabeth "Betsey" Spickerman - View family
1827 (Age 20)
 Linlithgo, Columbia, New York, USA

brother-in-law - George Wilson Potts
elder sister - Elizabeth "Betsey" Spickerman
Australian History 1828 (Age 21)
 

Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.
Australian History 1829 (Age 22)
 

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 23)
 

Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.
Australian History 1831 (Age 24)
 

Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Australian History 1832 (Age 25)
 

Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
MarriageDeborah Ann Wiltsie - View family
10 October 1833 (Age 26)
 Albany, Albany, New York, USA

Australian History 1833 (Age 26)
 

Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History 1835 (Age 28)
 

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.
Birth of a son
#1		 1836 (Age 29)
 

son - John Spickerman
Australian History 1836 (Age 29)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History 1838 (Age 31)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Birth of a son
#2		 1839 (Age 32)
 

son - Almeron Spickerman
Australian History 1839 (Age 32)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History 1840 (Age 33)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Birth of a daughter
#3		 1841 (Age 34)
 

daughter - Romelia Spickerman
Australian History 1841 (Age 34)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 35)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 36)
 

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).
Birth of a son
#4		 1844 (Age 37)
 

son - Myron Spickerman
Australian History 1845 (Age 38)
 

Note: The ship Cataraqui is wrecked off King Island in Bass Strait. It is Australia's worst civil maritime disaster, with 406 lives lost.
Note: Copper is discovered at Burra in South Australia.
Death of a sister about September 1847 (Age 40)
 

sister - Hannah Spickerman
Australian History 1850 (Age 43)
 

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.
Birth of a son
#5		 1851 (Age 44)
 

son - Frederick A. Spickerman
Australian History 1851 (Age 44)
 

Note: Victoria separates from New South Wales.
Note: The Victorian gold rush starts when gold is found at Summerhill Creek and Ballarat.
Note: Forest Creek Monster Meeting of miners at Chewton near Castlemaine
Australian History 1853 (Age 46)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Birth of a daughter
#6		 1854 (Age 47)
 

daughter - Florence Victoria, Australia Spickerman
Australian History 1854 (Age 47)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 48)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Norfolk Island ceases.
Note: All men over 21 years of age obtain the right to vote in South Australia.
Australian History 1856 (Age 49)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Birth of a son
#7		 1857 (Age 50)
 

son - Chas. Edward Spickerman
Australian History 1857 (Age 50)
 

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 51)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1859 (Age 52)
 

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 53)
 

Note: John McDouall Stuart reaches the centre of the continent. South Australian border changed from 132 degrees E to 129 degrees E.
Australian History 1861 (Age 54)
 

Note: The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs.
Note: skiing in Australia introduced by Norwegians in the Snowy Mountains goldrush town of Kiandra
Australian History 1862 (Age 55)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 56)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Australian History 1867 (Age 60)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Australian History 1868 (Age 61)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 62)
 

Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.
Death of a brother 17 May 1871 (Age 64)
 

elder brother - John Spickerman
Death of a wife 22 December 1871 (Age 65)
 

wife - Deborah Ann Wiltsie
Australian History 1872 (Age 65)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 66)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History 1875 (Age 68)
 

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 sister 20 December 1876 (Age 70)
 Livingston, Columbia, New York, USA

elder sister - Elizabeth "Betsey" Spickerman
Australian History 1878 (Age 71)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 72)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 73)
 

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 75)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 76)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Australian History 1887 (Age 80)
 

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 82)
 

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 83)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History 1891 (Age 84)
 

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 85)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History 1893 (Age 86)
 

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 87)
 

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 20 September 1894 (Age 87)
 

Family with parents - View family
father
Johannes Spickerman

Birth 19 February 1756 35  Livingston, Columbia, New York, USA

Death yes  

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22 years
mother
Margaret "Mary" "Maria" Dekker

Birth 1778  Livingston, Columbia, New York, USA

Death yes  

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Marriage: yes
#1 elder sister
Elizabeth "Betsey" Spickerman

Birth 9 March 1800 44 22  Livingston, Columbia, New York, USA

Death 20 December 1876 (Age 76)  Livingston, Columbia, New York, USA

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#2 sister
Hannah Spickerman

Death about September 1847  

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#3 elder brother
John Spickerman

Birth 15 February 1802 45 24  

Death 17 May 1871 (Age 69)  

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23 months
#4 elder sister
… Spickerman

Birth about 1804 47 26  

Death 1820 (Age 16)  

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3 years
#5 himself
Garret Spickerman

Birth 28 November 1806 50 28  

Death 20 September 1894 (Age 87)  

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Father’s family with Maria "Polly" Laurentz - View family
father
Johannes Spickerman

Birth 19 February 1756 35  Livingston, Columbia, New York, USA

Death yes  

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step-mother
Maria "Polly" Laurentz
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Marriage: 2 December 1783 — Linlithgo Reformed Church, Livingston, Columbia, New York, USA
5 years
#1 half-brother
Peter Spickerman

Birth 23 December 1788 32  

Death yes  

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Family with Deborah Ann Wiltsie - View family
himself
Garret Spickerman

Birth 28 November 1806 50 28  

Death 20 September 1894 (Age 87)  

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8 years
wife
Deborah Ann Wiltsie

Birth 1815  

Death 22 December 1871 (Age 56)  

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Marriage: 10 October 1833 — Albany, Albany, New York, USA
2 years
#1 son
John Spickerman

Birth 1836 29 21  

Death yes  

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3 years
#2 son
Almeron Spickerman

Birth 1839 32 24  

Death yes  

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2 years
#3 daughter
Romelia Spickerman

Birth 1841 34 26  

Death yes  

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3 years
#4 son
Myron Spickerman

Birth 1844 37 29  

Death yes  

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7 years
#5 son
Frederick A. Spickerman

Birth 1851 44 36  

Death yes  

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3 years
#6 daughter
Florence Victoria, Australia Spickerman

Birth 1854 47 39  

Death yes  

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3 years
#7 son
Chas. Edward Spickerman

Birth 1857 50 42  

Death yes  

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Birth
THE IGI lists Garridus Spickerman, with parents John Spickerman and Margaret Decker, with a birth date of 28 November 1806 at the Reformed Church, Gallatin, Columbia County, New York. In the 1855 New York State census he stated he had been born in Livingston County, however, he most likely meant he had been born in Livingston, Columbia County. In the 1865 and 1875 NYS censuses he stated he had been born in Columbia County. The IGI lists the death date of Garret as 20 September 1894. He probably died in Waterford, Saratoga County, NY, where he was enumerated in the 1880 census, living with son John. Deborah Spickerman died 22 December 1871, probably in New Baltimore, Greene County, New York. In the 1840 census, Garret "Speakerman" was enumerated in Westerlo, Albany County, NY, page 316. His family consisted of 2 males under 5, 1 male 30-40 and 1 female 20-30. In the censuses of 1850, 1855, 1860, 1865, 1870 and 1880, Garrett was enumerated as shown above.

Australian History
The Rum Rebellion

Australian History
John Oxley charts the Lachlan River

Australian History
Oxley charts the Macquarie River.

Australian History
A penal colony is founded at Moreton Bay, now the city of Brisbane.

Australian History
New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed.

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.

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.


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