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Thomas FisherAge: 741826–1900

Name
Thomas Fisher
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Thomas
Surname
Fisher
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Birth 1826 42 42
 Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

Birth of a sister about 1827 (Age 12 months)
 Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

younger sister - Jane Fisher
Birth of a sister 11 December 1827 (Age 23 months)
 Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

younger sister - Agnes Fisher
Australian History 1828 (Age 2)
 

Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.
Australian History 1829 (Age 3)
 

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 4)
 

Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.
Death of a maternal grandfather 28 July 1831 (Age 5)
 Dalgig, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

maternal grandfather - Ivie Campbell
Australian History 1831 (Age 5)
 

Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Australian History 1832 (Age 6)
 

Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Australian History 1833 (Age 7)
 

Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History 1835 (Age 9)
 

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 of a brotherIvie Fisher - View family
19 March 1836 (Age 10)
 Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

elder brother - Ivie Fisher
sister-in-law - Jane McMillan
Australian History 1836 (Age 10)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Marriage of a sisterMargaret Fisher - View family
about 1837 (Age 11)
 Poss Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

brother-in-law - James Templeton
elder sister - Margaret Fisher
Australian History 1838 (Age 12)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History 1839 (Age 13)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History 1840 (Age 14)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Australian History 1841 (Age 15)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Death of a brother about 1842 (Age 16)
 Garrarie Farm, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland

elder brother - John Fisher
Australian History 1842 (Age 16)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 17)
 

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 (Age 19)
 

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 (Age 24)
 

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.
Census 30 March 1851 (Age 25)
 Craignarget, Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Note: Son umar Farmer 25 bn Kells KKD
Death of a brother 19 December 1851 (Age 25)
 Glasgow, Scotland

elder brother - James Fisher
Australian History 1851 (Age 25)
 

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 of a brotherIvie Fisher - View family
1852 (estimated) (Age 26)
 Poss Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

elder brother - Ivie Fisher
sister-in-law - Grace McMillan
Australian History 1853 (Age 27)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History 1854 (Age 28)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 29)
 

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 30)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 31)
 

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 32)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1859 (Age 33)
 

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 34)
 

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 35)
 

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 36)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 37)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Death of a sister 31 May 1865 (Age 39)
 Suie, Bargrennan, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

elder sister - Margaret Fisher
Death of a father 8 August 1866 (Age 40)
 Craignarget Farm, Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

father - William Fisher
Australian History 1867 (Age 41)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Australian History 1868 (Age 42)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 43)
 

Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.
Australian History 1872 (Age 46)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Death of a mother 21 July 1873 (Age 47)
 Craignarget, Glenluce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

mother - Margaret Campbell
Australian History 1873 (Age 47)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Death of a brother 3 January 1874 (Age 48)
 Barharkin, Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

elder brother - Ivie Fisher
Australian History 1875 (Age 49)
 

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 52)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 53)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 54)
 

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 55)
 Pt William Rd, Craignarget Farm, Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Note: 
Head farmer 1400ac 22 arable employing 1 boy, unmarr, 46 bn
Kells KKD
Australian History 1882 (Age 56)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 57)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Australian History 1887 (Age 61)
 

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 63)
 

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 64)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Census 5 April 1891 (Age 65)
 Glenluce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Note: age 65 894 006 2
Australian History 1891 (Age 65)
 

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
Death of a sister 8 October 1892 (Age 66)
 Sea Bank, Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

younger sister - Agnes Fisher
Australian History 1892 (Age 66)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History 1893 (Age 67)
 

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 68)
 

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 69)
 

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
Death of a sister 5 July 1896 (Age 70)
 Sea Bank, Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

elder sister - Mary Fisher
Australian History 1896 (Age 70)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History 1897 (Age 71)
 

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 72)
 

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 73)
 

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 74)
 

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
Death 1 May 1900 (Age 74)
 Sea Bank, Glenluce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Family with parents - View family
father
William Fisher

Birth 18 May 1783  Auchinleck, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death 8 August 1866 (Age 83)  Craignarget Farm, Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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mother
Margaret Campbell

Birth 17 July 1783 28 29  New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death 21 July 1873 (Age 90)  Craignarget, Glenluce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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Marriage: about 1803
2 years
#1 elder brother
Ivie Fisher

Birth about 1805 21 21  New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death 3 January 1874 (Age 69)  Barharkin, Old Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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#2 elder brother
James Fisher

Birth about 1807 23 23  Poss New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death 19 December 1851 (Age 44)  Glasgow, Scotland

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#3 elder sister
Margaret Fisher

Birth about 1809 25 25  Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death 31 May 1865 (Age 56)  Suie, Bargrennan, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

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#4 elder brother
William Fisher

Birth about 1813 29 29  Poss Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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#5 elder sister
Mary Fisher

Birth 22 May 1817 34 33  Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death 5 July 1896 (Age 79)  Sea Bank, Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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19 months
#6 elder brother
George Fisher

Birth about 1819 35 35  Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

Death 17 January 1909 (Age 90)  Sea Bank, Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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#7 elder brother
John Fisher

Birth about 1820 36 36  Prob Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

Death about 1842 (Age 22)  Garrarie Farm, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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6 years
#8 himself
Thomas Fisher

Birth 1826 42 42  Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

Death 1 May 1900 (Age 74)  Sea Bank, Glenluce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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#9 younger sister
Jane Fisher

Birth about 1827 43 43  Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

Death  Glenhead, Scotland

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#10 younger sister
Agnes Fisher

Birth 11 December 1827 44 44  Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

Death 8 October 1892 (Age 64)  Sea Bank, Glen Luce, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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Thomas Fisher has 19 first cousins recorded

Father's family (0)

Mother's family (19)

Parents George Campbell + Janet McDonald
1 Jean Campbell 1832–1865
2 Ivie Campbell 1833–1904
3 George Campbell 1835–1867
4 Angus Campbell 1837–1843
5 Margaret Campbell 1839–?
6 Janet Campbell 1841–1917
7 Angusina Campbell 1847–?
8 William Campbell 1849–1850
Parents William Campbell + Jean Scott
1 Ivie Campbell 1810–1880
2 David Campbell 1813–1880
3 Jane Campbell 1814–1897
4 George Campbell 1817–1866
5 William Campbell 1819–1893
6 Walter Scott Campbell 1821–1864
7 Agnes Campbell 1823–1895
8 John Campbell 1825–1900
9 Margaret Campbell 1829–1835
10 Elizabeth Campbell 1831–1924
11 Ebenezer Campbell 1833–1909
 
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.

Census
Son umar Farmer 25 bn Kells KKD

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.

Census
Head farmer 1400ac 22 arable employing 1 boy, unmarr, 46 bn Kells KKD

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
age 65 894 006 2

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.


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