Margaret McMillan 1839

Margaret McMillanAge: 831839–1923

Name: Margaret McMillan

Given names: Margaret

Surname: McMillan

Margaret McCaig

Name: Margaret McCaig

Given names: Margaret

Surname: McCaig

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Birth	18 October 1839 Of Burnside, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
Baptism	10 November 1839 (Age 23 days) New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
Australian History	1839 Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History	1840 (Age 2 months) Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Census	7 June 1841 (Age 19 months)
Australian History	1841 (Age 14 months) Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History	1842 (Age 2) Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History	1843 (Age 3) 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 5) 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 10) 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 11)
Australian History	1851 (Age 11) 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 13) Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History	1854 (Age 14) Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History	1855 (Age 15) 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 16) Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History	1857 (Age 17) 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 18) Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph. Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History	1859 (Age 19) 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 20) 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 21) Waterhead Cottage, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Note: Daughter, unmarried 21 years Dom Servant Bn New Cumnock
Australian History	1861 (Age 21) 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 22) Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Marriage	Ivie McCaig - View family 18 December 1863 (Age 24) Littlemark Hill, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
Occupation	Domestic Servant 1863 (Age 23)
Residence	1863 (Age 23) Littlemark Hill, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
Australian History	1863 (Age 23) Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Birth of a daughter #1	15 August 1866 (Age 26) Knockdunder, Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland daughter - Mary Murdoch McCaig
Australian History	1867 (Age 27) Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Australian History	1868 (Age 28) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History	1869 (Age 29) Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.
Census	2 April 1871 (Age 31) Knockunder, Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Note: Wife, 31, mar bn New Cumnock AYR
Australian History	1872 (Age 32) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Birth of a daughter #2	19 February 1873 (Age 33) Knockdunder, Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland daughter - Jane McCaig
Australian History	1873 (Age 33) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Birth of a son #3	9 May 1875 (Age 35) Knockdunder, Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland son - Thomas McCaig
Australian History	1875 (Age 35) 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 daughter #4	13 September 1878 (Age 38) Craigman, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland daughter - Christina "Aunty Tenee" McCaig
Australian History	1878 (Age 38) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History	1879 (Age 39) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History	1880 (Age 40) Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work.
Birth of a son #5	11 March 1881 (Age 41) Knockden, Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland son - Ivie McCaig
Census	4 April 1881 (Age 41) Knockdones, Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Note: 41yrs, Agents wife, Bn New Cumnock,AYR
Australian History	1882 (Age 42) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History	1883 (Age 43) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Australian History	1887 (Age 47) 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 49) Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration.
Death of a husband	5 November 1890 (Age 51) Crichton Row, Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland husband - Ivie McCaig
Australian History	1890 (Age 50) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Census	5 April 1891 (Age 51) Crichton Row, Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Note: Head of House, aged 51 yrs Widow born New Cumnock The family were living in two rooms with one or more windows
Australian History	1891 (Age 51) 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 52) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History	1893 (Age 53) 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 54) 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 55) 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 56) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History	1897 (Age 57) 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 58) 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 59) 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 60) 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 61) 27 Church Street, Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland Note: Head widow 62 bn New Cumnock AYR
Australian History	1901 (Age 61) 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 62) 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 63) 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 64) 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 66) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Australian History	1908 (Age 68) 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 69) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Death of a daughter	28 July 1910 (Age 70) Barbieston, Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland daughter - Mary Murdoch McCaig
Australian History	1910 (Age 70) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History	1911 (Age 71) 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 72) 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 73) 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 73) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History	1914 (Age 74) 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 75) 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 76) 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 77) 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.
Australian History	1918 (Age 78) 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 79) 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 80) Note: The airline Qantas is founded
Australian History	1921 (Age 81) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament
Australian History	1922 (Age 82) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney
Australian History	1923 (Age 83) Note: Vegemite is first produced
Death	8 January 1923 (Age 83) Curriestanes, Troqueer, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

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husband	Ivie McCaig Birth about 1829 29 27 New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 5 November 1890 (Age 61) Crichton Row, Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
11 years herself	Margaret McMillan Birth 18 October 1839 Of Burnside, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 8 January 1923 (Age 83) Curriestanes, Troqueer, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Loading...
	Marriage: 18 December 1863 — Littlemark Hill, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
#1 daughter	Wilhemina (Campbell) McCaig Death 21 August 1927 35 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Loading...
#2 daughter	Mary Murdoch McCaig Birth 15 August 1866 37 26 Knockdunder, Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 28 July 1910 (Age 43) Barbieston, Coylton, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
7 years #3 daughter	Jane McCaig Birth 19 February 1873 44 33 Knockdunder, Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 1 November 1939 (Age 66) Benston, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
2 years #4 son	Thomas McCaig Birth 9 May 1875 46 35 Knockdunder, Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 17 August 1942 (Age 67) 68 Hawkhill Ave "Dalgig", Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...
3 years #5 daughter	Christina "Aunty Tenee" McCaig Birth 13 September 1878 49 38 Craigman, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 29 May 1944 (Age 65) Cottage, Troqueer, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland Loading...
3 years #6 son	Ivie McCaig Birth 11 March 1881 52 41 Knockden, Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland Death 16 September 1950 (Age 69) In Motor Car On Way To County Hospital, Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland Loading...

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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.
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.
Census	Daughter, unmarried 21 years Dom Servant Bn New Cumnock
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.
Census	Wife, 31, mar bn New Cumnock AYR
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	41yrs, Agents wife, Bn New Cumnock,AYR
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	Head of House, aged 51 yrs Widow born New Cumnock The family were living in two rooms with one or more windows
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.
Census	Head widow 62 bn New Cumnock AYR
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

Margaret McMillanAge: 831839–1923

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