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Robert ScottAge: 461831–1877

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Robert Scott
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Robert
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Scott
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Birth about 1831
 

Australian History 1831
 

Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Australian History 1832 (Age 12 months)
 

Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Australian History 1833 (Age 2)
 

Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History 1835 (Age 4)
 

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 5)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History 1838 (Age 7)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History 1839 (Age 8)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History 1840 (Age 9)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Australian History 1841 (Age 10)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 11)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 12)
 

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 14)
 

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 19)
 

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 20)
 

Note: Victoria separates from New South Wales.
Note: The Victorian gold rush starts when gold is found at Summerhill Creek and Ballarat.
Note: Forest Creek Monster Meeting of miners at Chewton near Castlemaine
Australian History 1853 (Age 22)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History 1854 (Age 23)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 24)
 

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 25)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 26)
 

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 27)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1859 (Age 28)
 

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 29)
 

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 30)
 

Note: The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs.
Note: skiing in Australia introduced by Norwegians in the Snowy Mountains goldrush town of Kiandra
MarriageHelen Campbell - View family
25 February 1862 (Age 31)
 Knocheen, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

Birth of a daughter
#1		 11 July 1862 (Age 31)
 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

daughter - Margaret Scott
Australian History 1862 (Age 31)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Birth of a daughter
#2		 30 August 1863 (Age 32)
 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

daughter - Jessie Campbell Scott
Australian History 1863 (Age 32)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Birth of a son
#3		 26 January 1865 (Age 34)
 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

son - Thomas Scott
Birth of a daughter
#4		 7 January 1866 (Age 35)
 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

daughter - Isabella Duncan Scott
Birth of a daughter
#5		 12 February 1867 (Age 36)
 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

daughter - Jean Bruce Scott
Australian History 1867 (Age 36)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Birth of a son
#6		 16 May 1868 (Age 37)
 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

son - Andrew Campbell Scott
Australian History 1868 (Age 37)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Birth of a daughter
#7		 7 June 1869 (Age 38)
 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

daughter - Elizabeth Forbes Scott
Australian History 1869 (Age 38)
 

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		 4 September 1870 (Age 39)
 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

daughter - Ellen Purvis Scott
Birth of a daughter
#9		 19 November 1871 (Age 40)
 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

daughter - Robina Inglis Scott
Australian History 1872 (Age 41)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Birth of a son
#10		 14 March 1873 (Age 42)
 South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

son - John Scott
Australian History 1873 (Age 42)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History 1875 (Age 44)
 

Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives.
Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed.
Death 3 December 1877 (Age 46)
 South Balloch, Barr, Ayrshire, Scotland

Family with Helen Campbell - View family
himself
Robert Scott

Birth about 1831  

Death 3 December 1877 (Age 46)  South Balloch, Barr, Ayrshire, Scotland

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5 years
wife
Helen Campbell

Baptism 7 August 1835 41  Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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Marriage: 25 February 1862 — Knocheen, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland
4 months
#1 daughter
Margaret Scott

Birth 11 July 1862 31 26  South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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14 months
#2 daughter
Jessie Campbell Scott

Birth 30 August 1863 32 28  South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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17 months
#3 son
Thomas Scott

Birth 26 January 1865 34 29  South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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11 months
#4 daughter
Isabella Duncan Scott

Birth 7 January 1866 35 30  South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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13 months
#5 daughter
Jean Bruce Scott

Birth 12 February 1867 36 31  South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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15 months
#6 son
Andrew Campbell Scott

Birth 16 May 1868 37 32  South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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13 months
#7 daughter
Elizabeth Forbes Scott

Birth 7 June 1869 38 33  South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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15 months
#8 daughter
Ellen Purvis Scott

Birth 4 September 1870 39 35  South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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14 months
#9 daughter
Robina Inglis Scott

Birth 19 November 1871 40 36  South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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16 months
#10 son
John Scott

Birth 14 March 1873 42 37  South Balloch, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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