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David Robert McCallAge: 731860–1933

Name
David Robert McCall
Given names
David Robert
Surname
McCall
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Birth 11 February 1860 39 31
 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Australian History 1860
 

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 brother 1861 (Age 10 months)
 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

younger brother - William Thomas McCall
Australian History 1861 (Age 10 months)
 

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 months)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Death of a maternal grandfather 25 June 1863 (Age 3)
 Lochenbreck Well, Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland

maternal grandfather - David Ferguson
Birth of a sister 4 November 1863 (Age 3)
 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

younger sister - Anne I A McCall
Australian History 1863 (Age 2)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Birth of a sister 3 November 1865 (Age 5)
 St George, New South Wales, Australia

younger sister - Agnes J McCall
Death of a maternal grandmother 4 April 1867 (Age 7)
 Wood Of Auchleand, Wigtown, Wigtownshire, Scotland

maternal grandmother - Helen Campbell
Australian History 1867 (Age 6)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Birth of a brother 1868 (Age 7)
 St George, New South Wales, Australia

younger brother - James Arthur McCall
Australian History 1868 (Age 7)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 8)
 

Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.
Birth of a brother 1870 (Age 9)
 St George, New South Wales, Australia

younger brother - Samuel McCall
Australian History 1872 (Age 11)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 12)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History 1875 (Age 14)
 

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 17)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 18)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Death of a father 26 July 1880 (Age 20)
 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

father - David McCall
Australian History 1880 (Age 19)
 

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 brother 18 July 1882 (Age 22)
 

elder brother - John McCall
Australian History 1882 (Age 21)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 22)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Death of a brother 5 June 1884 (Age 24)
 Petersham, New South Wales, Australia

younger brother - Samuel McCall
Australian History 1887 (Age 26)
 

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 28)
 

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 29)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History 1891 (Age 30)
 

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 31)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History 1893 (Age 32)
 

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 33)
 

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 34)
 

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 35)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History 1897 (Age 36)
 

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 37)
 

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 38)
 

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 39)
 

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 40)
 

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 41)
 

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 42)
 

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 43)
 

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 45)
 

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Australian History 1908 (Age 47)
 

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 48)
 

Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History 1910 (Age 49)
 

Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History 1911 (Age 50)
 

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 51)
 

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 brother 1913 (Age 52)
 Burwood, New South Wales, Australia

younger brother - James Arthur McCall
Australian History 1913 (Age 52)
 

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 52)
 

Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History 1914 (Age 53)
 

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 54)
 

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 55)
 

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 56)
 

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 sister 21 November 1918 (Age 58)
 Australia

younger sister - Agnes J McCall
Australian History 1918 (Age 57)
 

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 58)
 

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 59)
 

Note: The airline Qantas is founded
Australian History 1921 (Age 60)
 

Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament
Australian History 1922 (Age 61)
 

Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney
Death of a mother 28 June 1923 (Age 63)
 Gosford, New South Wales, Australia

mother - Agnes Ferguson
Australian History 1923 (Age 62)
 

Note: Vegemite is first produced
Australian History 1926 (Age 65)
 

Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held
Death of a brother 9 December 1927 (Age 67)
 Ryde, New South Wales, Australia

younger brother - William Thomas McCall
Australian History 1927 (Age 66)
 

Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital
Australian History 1928 (Age 67)
 

Note: Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built.
Australian History 1929 (Age 68)
 

Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary
Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia.
Australian History 1930 (Age 69)
 

Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings
Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup
Australian History 1931 (Age 70)
 

Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia
Australian History 1932 (Age 71)
 

Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens
Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister
Death of a sister 10 September 1933 (Age 73)
 Gosford, New South Wales, Australia

elder sister - Ellen Mary McCall
Australian History 1933 (Age 72)
 

Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments
Death 28 December 1933 (Age 73)
 Ryde, New South Wales, Australia

Family with parents - View family
father
David McCall

Birth 15 July 1820  Kiln, Sanquhar, Dfs, Scotland

Death 26 July 1880 (Age 60)  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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mother
Agnes Ferguson

Birth 14 August 1828 32 30  Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death 28 June 1923 (Age 94)  Gosford, New South Wales, Australia

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Marriage: 22 April 1852
15 months
#1 elder brother
John McCall

Birth 18 July 1853 33 24  

Death 18 July 1882 (Age 29)  

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#2 elder brother
David McCall

Birth 1854 33 25  Australia

Death 9 November 1854  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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3 years
#3 elder sister
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

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#4 elder sister
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

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3 years
#5 himself
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

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11 months
#6 younger brother
William Thomas McCall

Birth 1861 40 32  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Death 9 December 1927 (Age 66)  Ryde, New South Wales, Australia

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3 years
#7 younger sister
Anne I A McCall

Birth 4 November 1863 43 35  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Death 1947 (Age 83)  

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2 years
#8 younger sister
Agnes J McCall

Birth 3 November 1865 45 37  St George, New South Wales, Australia

Death 21 November 1918 (Age 53)  Australia

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#9 younger brother
James Arthur McCall

Birth 1868 47 39  St George, New South Wales, Australia

Death 1913 (Age 45)  Burwood, New South Wales, Australia

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2 years
#10 younger brother
Samuel McCall

Birth 1870 49 41  St George, New South Wales, Australia

Death 5 June 1884 (Age 14)  Petersham, New South Wales, Australia

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David Robert McCall has 27 first cousins recorded

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Mother's family (27)

Parents Private + Jane Ferguson
1 John Wallace 1849–?
2 Helen Wallace 1850–?
3 Mary Wallace 1853–?
Parents John McClellan + Helen Ferguson
1 Helen McClelland 1846–?
2 Mary Anne McClellan ?–?
3 David McClellan ?–?
4 John McClellan ?–?
5 David McClellan ?–?
6 Thomas Bayliss McClellan 1861–1936
7 Jessie McClellan 1864–?
8 William McClellan 1866–?
Parents Peter Skelly Reid + Jessie Campbell Ferguson
1 David Reid 1854–?
2 George Reid 1856–1884
3 Ivie Reid 1858–1944
4 Helen Reid 1860–?
5 Elizabeth Reid 1861–?
6 Agnes Reid 1864–?
7 William Reid 1868–1958
8 Thomas Reid 1872–?
9 Janet Reid 1874–1898
Parents Ivie Ferguson + Anne McQuaker
1 Jane Ferguson 1857–?
2 Helen Ferguson 1860–?
3 Margaret Ferguson 1862–?
4 William Ferguson 1864–?
5 Elizabeth Ferguson 1867–?
Parents Ivie Ferguson + Margaret Milroy
1 Ivie Ferguson ?–?
Parents William Ferguson + Janet McCormick
1 David Ferguson 1867–?

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Reference number
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