William Routledge 1829

William RoutledgeAge: 861829–1915

Name: William Routledge

Given names: William

Surname: Routledge

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Birth	about 1829 Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland
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 (Age 12 months) Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.
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.
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.
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.
Birth of a sister	about 1840 (Age 11) Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland younger sister - Margaret Routledge
Australian History	1840 (Age 11) Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
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).
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.
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.
Census	30 March 1851 (Age 22) Old Mill, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland Note: Head unmar 23 Miller and Farmer - joint of 317 acres, employs 21 labourers, bn Mochrum
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 of a sister	Helen Routledge - View family 29 March 1853 (Age 24) Oldmill, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland brother-in-law - William Brown elder sister - Helen Routledge
Australian History	1853 (Age 24) Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
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.
Marriage	Jane Brown - View family 26 June 1856 (Age 27) Mochrum, Scotland
Birth of a daughter #1	24 September 1856 (Age 27) Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland daughter - Jane Routledge
Australian History	1856 (Age 27) Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
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.
Birth of a daughter #2	26 May 1858 (Age 29) Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland daughter - Agnes Mcwhinnie Routledge
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 daughter #3	28 August 1860 (Age 31) Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland daughter - Margaret Routledge
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.
Census	8 April 1861 (Age 32)
Marriage of a sister	Margaret Routledge - View family 23 April 1861 (Age 32) Aireylick, Mochrum, Scotland brother-in-law - George Brown younger sister - Margaret Routledge
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
Birth of a daughter #4	27 June 1862 (Age 33) Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland daughter - Catherine Routledge
Australian History	1862 (Age 33) Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
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 son #5	16 July 1864 (Age 35) Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland son - William Routledge
Birth of a daughter #6	2 October 1866 (Age 37) Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland daughter - Janet Routledge
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 daughter #7	27 September 1868 (Age 39) Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland daughter - Helen Routledge
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 daughter #8	3 July 1870 (Age 41) Elrig Farm, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland daughter - Mary Routledge
Census	2 April 1871 (Age 42)
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.
Death of a sister	1 June 1874 (Age 45) Airyelick Farm?, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland elder sister - Helen Routledge
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.
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.
Census	4 April 1881 (Age 52) Elrig Farm, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland Note: Head mar 52 bn Mochrum Farmer of 200acres 55 arable employing 3 men and 2 women
Australian History	1882 (Age 53) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Death of a daughter	5 April 1883 (Age 54) Elrig Farm, Mochrum, Ayrshire, Scotland daughter - Mary Routledge
Australian History	1883 (Age 54) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Death of a daughter	21 October 1886 (Age 57) Mochrum?, Wigtownshire, Scotland daughter - Helen Routledge
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.
Census	5 April 1891 (Age 62) Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland Note: age 62 892 007 9
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.
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.
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.
Death of a wife	4 June 1899 (Age 70) Elrig, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland wife - Jane Brown
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
Census	31 March 1901 (Age 72)
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
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
Death of a sister	25 December 1909 (Age 80) Port William, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland younger sister - Margaret Routledge
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
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
Death	18 February 1915 (Age 86) Elrig Farm, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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	Marriage: about 1819 — Poss Mochrum, Scotland
4 years #1 elder sister	Helen Routledge Birth about 1823 Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland Death 1 June 1874 (Age 51) Airyelick Farm?, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
6 years #2 himself	William Routledge Birth about 1829 Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland Death 18 February 1915 (Age 86) Elrig Farm, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
11 years #3 younger sister	Margaret Routledge Birth about 1840 Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland Death 25 December 1909 (Age 69) Port William, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...

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himself	William Routledge Birth about 1829 Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland Death 18 February 1915 (Age 86) Elrig Farm, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
wife	Jane Brown Birth about 1829 48 39 New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 4 June 1899 (Age 70) Elrig, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
	Marriage: 26 June 1856 — Mochrum, Scotland
3 months #1 daughter	Jane Routledge Birth 24 September 1856 27 27 Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland Death yes Loading...
20 months #2 daughter	Agnes Mcwhinnie Routledge Birth 26 May 1858 29 29 Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland Death 14 October 1937 (Age 79) Mount Pleasant, Port William, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
2 years #3 daughter	Margaret Routledge Birth 28 August 1860 31 31 Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland Death yes Loading...
22 months #4 daughter	Catherine Routledge Birth 27 June 1862 33 33 Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland Death 16 January 1946 (Age 83) Mount Pleasant, Port William, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
2 years #5 son	William Routledge Birth 16 July 1864 35 35 Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland Death yes Loading...
2 years #6 daughter	Janet Routledge Birth 2 October 1866 37 37 Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland Death yes Loading...
2 years #7 daughter	Helen Routledge Birth 27 September 1868 39 39 Elrig Village, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland Death 21 October 1886 (Age 18) Mochrum?, Wigtownshire, Scotland Loading...
21 months #8 daughter	Mary Routledge Birth 3 July 1870 41 41 Elrig Farm, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland Death 5 April 1883 (Age 12) Elrig Farm, Mochrum, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...

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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	Head unmar 23 Miller and Farmer - joint of 317 acres, employs 21 labourers, bn Mochrum
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 mar 52 bn Mochrum Farmer of 200acres 55 arable employing 3 men and 2 women
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 62 892 007 9
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.

William RoutledgeAge: 861829–1915

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