Ann Mc Connell?–1899
- Name
- Ann Mc Connell
- Given names
- Ann
- Surname
- Mc Connell
Birth of a son #1 | Ireland
son -
Thomas Gregg
|
Australian History | 1817 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 Note: Oxley charts the Macquarie River. |
Australian History | 1824 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 Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed. |
Australian History | 1828 Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River. |
Australian History | 1829 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 Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River. |
Australian History | 1831 Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published. |
Australian History | 1832 Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia. |
Australian History | 1833 Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land. |
Australian History | 1835 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. |
Marriage | Robert Gregg - View family 1836 |
Australian History | 1836 Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E. |
Australian History | 1838 Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time. |
Australian History | 1839 Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko. |
Australian History | 1840 Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council. |
Australian History | 1841 Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales. |
Australian History | 1842 Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia. |
Australian History | 1843 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). |
Australian History | 1845 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. |
Australian History | 1850 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 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 Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo |
Birth of a son #2 | 3 April 1854 Ballynascadden, Ireland
son -
Richard Gregg
|
Australian History | 1854 Note: The Eureka Stockade |
Australian History | 1855 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 Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania. |
Australian History | 1857 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 Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph. Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote. |
Australian History | 1859 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 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 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 Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E. |
Australian History | 1863 Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales. |
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 Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
Australian History | 1869 Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. |
Birth of a granddaughter #1 | 1870
granddaughter -
Mattie Burrowes
|
Birth of a granddaughter #2 | 1870
granddaughter -
Annie Burrowes
|
Birth of a grandson #3 | 11 September 1872
grandson -
George Burrowes
|
Australian History | 1872 Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
Australian History | 1873 Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
Birth of a grandson #4 | 1874 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
grandson -
Thomas Edward Gregg
|
Birth of a grandson #5 | 29 November 1874
grandson -
Robert Burrowes
|
Australian History | 1875 Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives. Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed. |
Birth of a grandson #6 | 14 January 1876
grandson -
Richard Burrowes
|
Birth of a granddaughter #7 | 1877 Bungaree, Victoria, Australia
granddaughter -
Maud Matilda Gregg
|
Birth of a granddaughter #8 | 15 May 1878
granddaughter -
Mary Burrowes
|
Marriage of a son | Richard Gregg - View family 18 May 1878
son -
Richard Gregg
daughter-in-law -
Caroline Fletcher
|
Australian History | 1878 Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
Birth of a granddaughter #9 | about 1879 New Zealand
granddaughter -
Anna Gregg
|
Australian History | 1879 Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
Australian History | 1880 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 Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
Australian History | 1883 Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
Birth of a grandson #10 | 18 November 1885
grandson -
William Burrowes
|
Marriage of a granddaughter | Mattie Rutherford - View family 1886 (estimated)
granddaughter's husband -
Alexander Starritt
granddaughter -
Mattie Rutherford
|
Birth of a granddaughter #11 | 10 April 1887
granddaughter -
Sarah Burrowes
|
Death of a daughter | 1887
daughter -
Sarah Ann Gregg
|
Australian History | 1887 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. |
Marriage of a granddaughter | Mattie Burrowes - View family 30 August 1889
granddaughter's husband -
Robert Gregg
granddaughter -
Mattie Burrowes
|
Australian History | 1889 Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration. |
Birth of a grandson #12 | 1890
grandson -
Richard Alexander Rutherford
|
Death of a son | about 1890
son -
Thomas Gregg
|
Australian History | 1890 Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
Birth of a grandson #13 | 18 November 1891
grandson -
David Burrowes
|
Australian History | 1891 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 Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
Australian History | 1893 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 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. |
Birth of a grandson #14 | 17 January 1895
grandson -
Albert Burrowes
|
Australian History | 1895 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 Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
Australian History | 1897 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 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 (on the date of death) 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. |
Death | 1899 |
Family with parents - View family |
father |
Thomas Mc Connell
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Marriage: yes |
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#1 herself |
Ann Mc Connell
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Family with Robert Gregg - View family |
husband |
Robert Gregg
Birth 1810 42 Ireland Death yes Loading...
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herself |
Ann Mc Connell
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Marriage: 1836 |
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#1 daughter |
Mary Gregg
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#2 daughter |
Mattie Gregg
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#3 son |
Robert Gregg
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#4 son |
Thomas Gregg
Birth Ireland Death about 1890 Loading...
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#5 daughter |
Eliza Gregg
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#6 son |
Richard Gregg
Birth 3 April 1854 44 Ballynascadden, Ireland Death 4 November 1913 (Age 59) Mangatera, Dannevirke, New Zealand Loading...
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#7 daughter |
Sarah Ann Gregg
Death 1887 Loading...
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