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James Arthur McCallAge: 451868–1913

Name
James Arthur McCall
Given names
James Arthur
Surname
McCall
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Birth 1868 47 39
 St George, New South Wales, Australia

Australian History 1868
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 12 months)
 

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 2)
 St George, New South Wales, Australia

younger brother - Samuel McCall
Australian History 1872 (Age 4)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 5)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History 1875 (Age 7)
 

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 10)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 11)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Death of a father 26 July 1880 (Age 12)
 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

father - David McCall
Australian History 1880 (Age 12)
 

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 14)
 

elder brother - John McCall
Australian History 1882 (Age 14)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 15)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Death of a brother 5 June 1884 (Age 16)
 Petersham, New South Wales, Australia

younger brother - Samuel McCall
Australian History 1887 (Age 19)
 

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 21)
 

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 22)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History 1891 (Age 23)
 

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 24)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History 1893 (Age 25)
 

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 26)
 

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 27)
 

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 28)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History 1897 (Age 29)
 

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 30)
 

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 31)
 

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 32)
 

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 33)
 

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 34)
 

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 35)
 

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 36)
 

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 38)
 

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Australian History 1908 (Age 40)
 

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 41)
 

Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History 1910 (Age 42)
 

Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History 1911 (Age 43)
 

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 44)
 

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 (on the date of death)
 

Note: Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains.
Note: Matthew Flinders refers to New South Wales by the name 'Australia'.
Australian History 1913 (on the date of death)
 

Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Death 1913 (Age 45)
 Burwood, 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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8 years
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 elder brother
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 elder 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 elder 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 elder 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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2 years
#9 himself
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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James Arthur McCall has 27 first cousins recorded

Father's family (0)

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–?

Extra information

Internal reference I8463
Reference number
6469
 
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