Agnes FergusonAge: 941828–1923
- Name
- Agnes Ferguson
- Given names
- Agnes
- Surname
- Ferguson
Agnes McCall
- Name
- Agnes McCall
- Given names
- Agnes
- Surname
- McCall
Birth | 14 August 1828 32 30 Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland |
Australian History | 1828 Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River. |
Australian History | 1829 (Age 4 months) 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 16 months) Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River. |
Birth of a sister | 9 April 1831 (Age 2) Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland
younger sister -
Jessie Campbell Ferguson
|
Death of a maternal grandfather | 28 July 1831 (Age 2) Dalgig, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
maternal grandfather -
Ivie Campbell
|
Australian History | 1831 (Age 2) Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published. |
Australian History | 1832 (Age 3) Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia. |
Birth of a brother | about 1833 (Age 4) Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland
younger brother -
Ivie Ferguson
|
Australian History | 1833 (Age 4) Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land. |
Australian History | 1835 (Age 6) 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. |
Australian History | 1836 (Age 7) Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E. |
Birth of a sister | about 1838 (Age 9)
younger sister -
Elizabeth Ferguson
|
Australian History | 1838 (Age 9) Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time. |
Australian History | 1839 (Age 10) Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko. |
Australian History | 1840 (Age 11) Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council. |
Birth of a brother | about 1841 (Age 12)
younger brother -
William Ferguson
|
Census | 7 June 1841 (Age 12) Wood Of Auchleand, Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland Note: Agnes 12 Yes |
Australian History | 1841 (Age 12) Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales. |
Australian History | 1842 (Age 13) Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia. |
Australian History | 1843 (Age 14) 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). |
Marriage of a sister | Helen Ferguson - View family 3 March 1844 (Age 15) Penninghame, Wigtownshire, Scotland
brother-in-law -
John McClellan
elder sister -
Helen Ferguson
|
Death of a maternal grandmother | 4 August 1844 (Age 15) Dalgig, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
maternal grandmother -
Margaret Dunbar
|
Australian History | 1845 (Age 16) 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. |
Marriage of a sister | Margaret Ferguson - View family 1848 (Age 19) Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland
brother-in-law -
William Walbram
elder sister -
Margaret Ferguson
|
Australian History | 1850 (Age 21) 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 (Age 22) 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 |
Marriage | David McCall - View family 22 April 1852 (Age 23) |
Birth of a son #1 | 18 July 1853 (Age 24)
son -
John McCall
|
Australian History | 1853 (Age 24) Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo |
Birth of a son #2 | 1854 (Age 25) Australia
son -
David McCall
|
Marriage of a sister | Jessie Campbell Ferguson - View family 5 June 1854 (Age 25) Glenluce, Wigtownshire, Scotland
brother-in-law -
Peter Skelly Reid
younger sister -
Jessie Campbell Ferguson
|
Death of a son | 9 November 1854 (Age 26) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
son -
David McCall
|
Australian History | 1854 (Age 25) Note: The Eureka Stockade |
Australian History | 1855 (Age 26) 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. |
Death of a sister | 12 August 1856 (Age 27) Wood Of Aucheland, Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland
elder sister -
Margaret Ferguson
|
Birth of a daughter #3 | 27 September 1856 (Age 28) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
daughter -
Agnes Elizabeth McCall
|
Birth of a daughter #4 | 27 September 1856 (Age 28) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
daughter -
Ellen Mary McCall
|
Australian History | 1856 (Age 27) Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania. |
Marriage of a brother | Ivie Ferguson - View family 26 March 1857 (Age 28) Wigtownshire, Scotland
younger brother -
Ivie Ferguson
sister-in-law -
Anne McQuaker
|
Australian History | 1857 (Age 28) 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. |
Death of a daughter | 3 February 1858 (Age 29) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
daughter -
Agnes Elizabeth McCall
|
Australian History | 1858 (Age 29) Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph. Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote. |
Australian History | 1859 (Age 30) 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. |
Birth of a son #5 | 11 February 1860 (Age 31) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
son -
David Robert McCall
|
Australian History | 1860 (Age 31) Note: John McDouall Stuart reaches the centre of the continent. South Australian border changed from 132 degrees E to 129 degrees E. |
Birth of a son #6 | 1861 (Age 32) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
son -
William Thomas McCall
|
Australian History | 1861 (Age 32) Note: The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs. Note: skiing in Australia introduced by Norwegians in the Snowy Mountains goldrush town of Kiandra |
Death of a sister | 24 December 1862 (Age 34) New Zealand
elder sister -
Jane Ferguson
|
Australian History | 1862 (Age 33) Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E. |
Death of a father | 25 June 1863 (Age 34) Lochenbreck Well, Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland
father -
David Ferguson
|
Birth of a daughter #7 | 4 November 1863 (Age 35) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
daughter -
Anne I A McCall
|
Australian History | 1863 (Age 34) Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales. |
Birth of a daughter #8 | 3 November 1865 (Age 37) St George, New South Wales, Australia
daughter -
Agnes J McCall
|
Death of a mother | 4 April 1867 (Age 38) Wood Of Auchleand, Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland
mother -
Helen Campbell
|
Marriage of a brother | William Ferguson - View family 2 August 1867 (Age 38) Glasserton, Wigtownshire, Scotland
younger brother -
William Ferguson
sister-in-law -
Janet McCormick
|
Australian History | 1867 (Age 38) Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. |
Birth of a son #9 | 1868 (Age 39) St George, New South Wales, Australia
son -
James Arthur McCall
|
Australian History | 1868 (Age 39) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
Australian History | 1869 (Age 40) Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. |
Birth of a son #10 | 1870 (Age 41) St George, New South Wales, Australia
son -
Samuel McCall
|
Marriage of a sister | Helen Ferguson - View family 1871 (Age 42) Victoria, Australia
brother-in-law -
John Rowan
elder sister -
Helen Ferguson
|
Australian History | 1872 (Age 43) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
Australian History | 1873 (Age 44) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
Australian History | 1875 (Age 46) Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives. Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed. |
Australian History | 1878 (Age 49) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
Australian History | 1879 (Age 50) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
Death of a husband | 26 July 1880 (Age 51) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
husband -
David McCall
|
Australian History | 1880 (Age 51) Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work. |
Death of a son | 18 July 1882 (Age 53)
son -
John McCall
|
Australian History | 1882 (Age 53) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
Australian History | 1883 (Age 54) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
Death of a son | 5 June 1884 (Age 55) Petersham, New South Wales, Australia
son -
Samuel McCall
|
Australian History | 1887 (Age 58) 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 60) 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 61) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
Australian History | 1891 (Age 62) 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 63) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
Australian History | 1893 (Age 64) 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. |
Death of a brother | 6 August 1894 (Age 65) 13 Arthur Street, Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, Scotland
younger brother -
Ivie Ferguson
|
Australian History | 1894 (Age 65) 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. |
Australian History | 1895 (Age 66) 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 67) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
Australian History | 1897 (Age 68) 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. |
Death of a brother | 25 October 1898 (Age 70) Balminoch, Kirkcowan, Wigtownshire, Scotland
younger brother -
William Ferguson
|
Australian History | 1898 (Age 69) 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 70) 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 71) 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 |
Australian History | 1901 (Age 72) 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 |
Death of a sister | 17 June 1902 (Age 73) Barlauchlan Croft, Newton Stewart, Penninghame, Wigtownshire, Scotland
younger sister -
Jessie Campbell Ferguson
|
Australian History | 1902 (Age 73) 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 74) 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 |
Australian History | 1904 (Age 75) 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 77) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
Australian History | 1908 (Age 79) 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 80) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
Australian History | 1910 (Age 81) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
Australian History | 1911 (Age 82) 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 83) 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 |
Death of a son | 1913 (Age 84) Burwood, New South Wales, Australia
son -
James Arthur McCall
|
Australian History | 1913 (Age 84) 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 84) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
Australian History | 1914 (Age 85) 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 86) 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 87) 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 88) 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. |
Death of a daughter | 21 November 1918 (Age 90) Australia
daughter -
Agnes J McCall
|
Australian History | 1918 (Age 89) 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 90) 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 91) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
Australian History | 1921 (Age 92) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
Australian History | 1922 (Age 93) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
Australian History | 1923 (Age 94) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
Death | 28 June 1923 (Age 94) Gosford, New South Wales, Australia |
Family with parents - View family |
father |
David Ferguson
Birth 1796 Carsphairn, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 25 June 1863 (Age 67) Lochenbreck Well, Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Loading...
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2 years mother |
Helen Campbell
Birth about 1798 43 37 New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 4 April 1867 (Age 69) Wood Of Auchleand, Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
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Marriage: about 1820 |
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1 year #1 elder brother |
David Ferguson
Birth about 1821 25 23 Death Western Australia, Australia Loading...
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5 years #2 elder sister |
Jane Ferguson
Birth about 1826 30 28 Death 24 December 1862 (Age 36) New Zealand Loading...
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-3 years #3 elder sister |
Margaret Ferguson
Birth about 1823 27 25 Death 12 August 1856 (Age 33) Wood Of Aucheland, Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
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4 years #4 elder sister |
Helen Ferguson
Birth about 1827 31 29 Death yes Loading...
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19 months #5 herself |
Agnes Ferguson
Birth 14 August 1828 32 30 Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 28 June 1923 (Age 94) Gosford, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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3 years #6 younger sister |
Jessie Campbell Ferguson
Birth 9 April 1831 35 33 Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 17 June 1902 (Age 71) Barlauchlan Croft, Newton Stewart, Penninghame, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
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21 months #7 younger brother |
Ivie Ferguson
Birth about 1833 37 35 Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland Death 6 August 1894 (Age 61) 13 Arthur Street, Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
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5 years #8 younger sister |
Elizabeth Ferguson
Birth about 1838 42 40 Death yes Loading...
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3 years #9 younger brother |
William Ferguson
Birth about 1841 45 43 Death 25 October 1898 (Age 57) Balminoch, Kirkcowan, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
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Family with David McCall - View family |
husband |
David McCall
Birth 15 July 1820 Kiln, Sanquhar, Dfs, Scotland Death 26 July 1880 (Age 60) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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8 years herself |
Agnes Ferguson
Birth 14 August 1828 32 30 Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 28 June 1923 (Age 94) Gosford, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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Marriage: 22 April 1852 |
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15 months #1 son |
John McCall
Birth 18 July 1853 33 24 Death 18 July 1882 (Age 29) Loading...
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5 months #2 son |
David McCall
Birth 1854 33 25 Australia Death 9 November 1854 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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3 years #3 daughter |
Agnes Elizabeth McCall
Birth 27 September 1856 36 28 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death 3 February 1858 (Age 16 months) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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#4 daughter |
Ellen Mary McCall
Birth 27 September 1856 36 28 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death 10 September 1933 (Age 76) Gosford, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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3 years #5 son |
David Robert McCall
Birth 11 February 1860 39 31 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death 28 December 1933 (Age 73) Ryde, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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11 months #6 son |
William Thomas McCall
Birth 1861 40 32 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death 9 December 1927 (Age 66) Ryde, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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3 years #7 daughter |
Anne I A McCall
Birth 4 November 1863 43 35 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death 1947 (Age 83) Loading...
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2 years #8 daughter |
Agnes J McCall
Birth 3 November 1865 45 37 St George, New South Wales, Australia Death 21 November 1918 (Age 53) Australia Loading...
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2 years #9 son |
James Arthur McCall
Birth 1868 47 39 St George, New South Wales, Australia Death 1913 (Age 45) Burwood, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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2 years #10 son |
Samuel McCall
Birth 1870 49 41 St George, New South Wales, Australia Death 5 June 1884 (Age 14) Petersham, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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Agnes Ferguson has 49 first cousins recorded
Father's family (0)
Mother's family (49)
Parents William Graham + Isabel Campbell
Parents William Brown + Jean Campbell
Parents Alexander Rowan + Tomina Campbell
Parents Andrew Campbell + Janet Campbell
Parents Ivie Campbell + Jean Richmond
Parents Thomas McCaig + Wilhemina Campbell
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. |
Census | Agnes 12 Yes |
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. |
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. |
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 |
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