Emma Estella Potts 1866

Emma Estella Potts1866–?

Name: Emma Estella Potts

Given names: Emma Estella

Surname: Potts

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Birth

14 May 1866 36 36

South Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA

Marriage

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Australian History

1867 (Age 7 months)

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.

Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.

Australian History

1868 (Age 19 months)

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.

Australian History

1869 (Age 2)

Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.

Census

1 June 1870 (Age 4)

Shared note: 1870 USA Census transcript - Robert Alvin Potts - Household

Name	Age	Sex	Race	Occupation	Assets	Birthplace	Edu
Elizabeth Reynold	39	F	W	Keeping House		USA, New York
Cora A. Potts	13	F	W	at Home		USA, Massachusetts	Y
Maria Potts	10	F	W	at Home		USA, Massachusetts	Y
Emma Estella Potts	4	F	W	at Home		United States, Massachusetts
Elizabeth Spickerman	70	F	W	No Occupation		USA, New York
Robert Alvin Potts	40	M	W	Farmer	12000	USA, New York

Birth of a brother

20 June 1870 (Age 4)

Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA

younger brother - George Robert Potts

Australian History

1872 (Age 5)

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.

Australian History

1873 (Age 6)

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.

Australian History

1875 (Age 8)

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 of a paternal grandmother

20 December 1876 (Age 10)

Livingston, Columbia, New York, USA

paternal grandmother - Elizabeth "Betsey" Spickerman

Australian History

1878 (Age 11)

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.

Australian History

1879 (Age 12)

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.

Census

1 June 1880 (Age 14)

Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA

Shared note: 1880 USA Census transcript - Robert A Potts - Household

Name	Race	Sex	Age	Relation	MC	YrsM	Occupation	BP	FBP	MBP
Robert A Potts	W	M	49	Head	M	24	Farmer	NY	NY	NY
Elizabeth Reynold	W	F	49	wife	M	24		NY	NY	NY
Cora A. Potts	W	F	21	daughter	S	-	At Home	MA	NY	NY
Maria Potts	W	F	20	daughter	S	-	At Home	MA	NY	NY
Emma E. Potts	W	F	13	daughter	S	-	At Home	MA	NY	NY
George R Potts	W	M	9	son	S	-	At Home	MA	NY	NY

Australian History

1880 (Age 13)

Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged.

Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work.

Australian History

1882 (Age 15)

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.

Australian History

1883 (Age 16)

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway

Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill

Death of a father

14 May 1886 (Age 20)

Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA

father - Robert Alvin Potts

Australian History

1887 (Age 20)

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 22)

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 23)

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.

Australian History

1891 (Age 24)

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 25)

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.

Marriage of a sister

Cora A. Potts - View family
12 April 1893 (Age 26)

Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

brother-in-law - Ernest C Spurr

elder sister - Cora A. Potts

Australian History

1893 (Age 26)

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.

Marriage of a brother

George Robert Potts - View family
5 January 1894 (Age 27)

Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA

younger brother - George Robert Potts

sister-in-law - Emma B Lucas

Australian History

1894 (Age 27)

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 28)

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 29)

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution

Australian History

1897 (Age 30)

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 31)

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 32)

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 33)

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 34)

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 35)

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 36)

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 37)

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 39)

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea

Australian History

1908 (Age 41)

Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country

Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead

Birth of a daughter
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1909 (Age 42)

daughter - Yvonne Twining

Australian History

1909 (Age 42)

Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.

Australian History

1910 (Age 43)

Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.

Australian History

1911 (Age 44)

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 45)

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 46)

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 46)

Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place

Australian History

1914 (Age 47)

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 48)

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 49)

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 50)

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.

Immigration

18 December 1918 (Age 52)

Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Note:

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Name: Yvonne Twining
Gender: Female
Age: 10
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1908
Date of Arrival: 18 Dec 1918
Vessel: Melita
Search Ship Database: View the 'Melita' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: St.John, New Brunswick
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
Roll: T-4833

Australian History

1918 (Age 51)

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 52)

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.

Census

1 January 1920 (Age 53)

Carroll, Carroll, Iowa, USA

Shared note: 1920 USA Census transcript - Ernest C Spurr - Household

Name	Relation	Sex	Age	MC	BP	FBP	MBP
Ernest C Spurr	Head	M	50	M	-	-	-
Cora A. Spurr	wife	F	53	M	MA	NY	NY
Emma E Potts	Sister-In-Law	F	50	W	MA	NY	NY
Yvonne F Twining	Niece	F	12	S	-	-	MA

Australian History

1920 (Age 53)

Note: The airline Qantas is founded

Australian History

1921 (Age 54)

Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament

Australian History

1922 (Age 55)

Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney

Australian History

1923 (Age 56)

Note: Vegemite is first produced

Australian History

1926 (Age 59)

Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held

Australian History

1927 (Age 60)

Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital

Australian History

1928 (Age 61)

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 62)

Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary

Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia.

Australian History

1930 (Age 63)

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 64)

Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia

Australian History

1932 (Age 65)

Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens

Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister

Australian History

1933 (Age 66)

Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments

Australian History

1936 (Age 69)

Note: The last Thylacine dies

Australian History

1937 (Age 70)

Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins

Australian History

1938 (Age 71)

Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games

Australian History

1939 (Age 72)

Note: (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government

Note: (September) Australia enters the Second World War following the German Invasion of Poland. The 2nd Australian Imperial Force is raised.

Note: The first flight is made by an Australian-made warplane, the Wirraway

Note: Victoria is devastated by the Black Friday bushfires

Australian History

1940 (Age 73)

Note: A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin

Note: Fascist Italy enters war, Royal Australian Navy engages Italian Navy in the early stages of the Battle of the Mediterranean.

Australian History

1941 (Age 74)

Note: 3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa.

Note: Apr-Aug, Australian garrison (Rats of Tobruk) halt advance of Hitler's panzers for the first time during the Siege of Tobruk.

Note: Menzies resigns and John Curtin becomes Prime Minister in the Curtin Government of 1941-45.

Australian History

1942 (Age 75)

Note: Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese

Note: 1942-43 - Japanese air raids - almost 100 attacks against sites in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland.

Note: The Royal Australian Navy and 6th and 7th Divisions of 2nd AIF are recalled from Mediterranean Theatre to participate in the anticipated Battle of Australia.

Note: 1942-3 - Sparrow Force engages in guerilla campaign in Battle of Timor

Note: Battle of the Coral Sea - United States and Royal Australian Navy halt advance of the Japanese towards Port Moresby (Australian Territory of Papua)

Note: Battle of Kokoda Trail - Australian soldiers halt Japanese march on Port Moresby

Note: Aug-Sep, Australian forces inflict the first defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle of Milne Bay.

Note: Jul-Nov, Australia's 9th Division plays crucial role in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein, which turned the North Africa Campaign in favour of the Allies.

Note: National daylight saving is introduced as a war time measure.

Note: The UK Statute of Westminster is formally adopted by Australia. The Statute formally grants Australia the right to pass laws that conflict with UK laws.

Australian History

1943 (Age 76)

Note: Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary.

Note: 2,815 Australian Pows die constructing Japan's Burma-Thailand Railway

Note: 1943-44 - Australian forces engage Japan in New Guinea, Wau, and the Huon peninsula.

Australian History

1944 (Age 77)

Note: Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW.

Note: Japanese inflict Sandakan Death March on 2,000 Australian and British prisoners of war - only 6 survive. The single worst war crime perpetrated against Australians.

Note: Australian forces battle Japanese garrisons from Borneo to Bougainville.

Note: The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is introduced, providing subsidised medicine to all Australians

Australian History

1945 (Age 78)

Note: the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader.

Note: Australian forces lead Battle of Borneo

Note: (7 May) Nazi Germany surrenders

Note: (July) Prime Minister Curtin dies and is replaced by Ben Chifley and the Chifley Labor Government

Note: (1 August) Japan Surrenders

Note: Australia becomes a founding member of the United Nations

Note: The Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race is held for the first time

Australian History

1946 (Age 79)

Note: Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme

Note: Norman Makin, is voted in as the first President of the United Nations Security Council.

Australian History

1948 (Age 81)

Note: Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly.

Note: Australia becomes a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Australian History

1949 (Age 82)

Note: Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins

Note: All indigenous ex-servicemen and any Indigenous Australians who are eligible to vote in State Elections (NSW, VIC, SA and TAS) are given an unrestricted right to vote in Federal Elections.

Note: The Nationality and Citizenship Act is passed. Rather than being identified as subjects of Britain, the Act established Australian citizenship for people who met eligibility requirements.

Note: Menzies returns to power as leader of the new Liberal Party Menzies Government.

Australian History

1950 (Age 83)

Note: 1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea.

Note: Voters reject a referendum to change the Constitution to allow the Menzies Government to ban the Communist Party

Australian History

1951 (Age 84)

Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand

Australian History

1952 (Age 85)

Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia.

Australian History

1954 (Age 87)

Note: Elizabeth II and Prince Philip make a royal visit; the Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects, leading to the Petrov Affair and another split in the Labor Party

Australian History

1955 (Age 88)

Note: Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement

Note: Australia becomes involved in Malayan Insurgence

Note: Hotels in New South Wales no longer have to close at 6 p.m., ending the 'six o'clock swill'

Australian History

1956 (Age 89)

Note: Television in Australia is launched.

Note: Melbourne holds the Olympics

Note: performing artist Barry Humphries introduces Edna Everage to the Australian stage

Australian History

1957 (Age 90)

Note: The song 'Wild One' makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts.

Note: Slim Dusty's Australian country music hit Pub With No Beer becomes the first Australian song to attain international chart success.

Australian History

1962 (Age 95)

Note: Robert Menzies' Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that all Indigenous Australians should have the right to enrol and vote at federal elections, removing remaining restrictions applying in QLD, WA and NT.

Note: Malayan Insurgence ends

Australian History

1964 (Age 97)

Note: The Beatles tour Australia;

Note: 82 sailors die when HMAS Voyager sinks after being rammed by HMAS Melbourne;

Note: The editors of Oz magazine are charged with obscenity;

Note: PM Robert Menzies announces the reintroduction of compulsory military service for men aged from 18-25 years old;

Note: First troops sent to Vietnam War.

Australian History

1965 (Age 98)

Note: Indigenous Australians gain right to vote in state of Queensland

Australian History

1966 (Age 99)

Note: The ban on the employment of married women in the Commonwealth Public Service is lifted;

Note: Menzies retires as Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister and is succeeded by Harold Holt.

Australian History

14 February 1966 (Age 99)

Note: Decimalisation; on 14 February the Australian currency is changed to dollars and cents, with the Australian Dollar replacing the Australian pound.

Australian History

1967 (Age 100)

Note: Large areas of Hobart and south-eastern Tasmania are devastated by bushfires on 7 February that kill 62 people;

Note: Prime Minister Holt drowns and is succeeded by John Gorton;

Note: The constitution is changed to allow Aboriginal Australians to be included in the population count and for the federal government to legislate for them; Sydney is rocked by a series of brutal underworld killings;

Note: Talkback radio is introduced;

Note: British comedian Tony Hancock commits suicide in Sydney;

Note: Gough Whitlam becomes leader of the Labor Party;

Note: Ronald Ryan becomes the last person legally executed in Australia.

Australian History

1968 (Age 101)

Note: Australia signs the nuclear non-proliferation treaty; Aboriginal boxing champion Lionel Rose defeats Masahiko 'Fighting' Harada in Japan to become the world bantamweight champion; Australia's first liver transplant operation is performed in Sydney;

Australian History

1969 (Age 102)

Note: French conceptual artist Christo 'wraps' Little Bay in Sydney;

Note: Renowned author-artists Norman Lindsay and May Gibbs die;

Note: The Australian production of the rock musical Hair premieres in Sydney;

Note: Top pop groups The Easybeats and The Twilights break up; Tim Burstall directs2000 Weeks, the first all-Australian feature released since Charles Chauvel's Jedda in 1958

Australian History

1970 (Age 103)

Note: More than 200,000 people participate in the largest demonstrations in Australian history, against the Vietnam War

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father	Robert Alvin Potts Birth 8 November 1829 28 29 Livingston, Columbia, New York, USA Death 14 May 1886 (Age 56) Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA Loading...
2 months mother	Elizabeth Reynold Birth 1830 Copake, Columbia, New York, USA Death yes Loading...
	Marriage: 29 January 1856 — Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
10 months #1 elder sister	Cora A. Potts Birth 30 November 1856 27 26 Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA Death yes Loading...
2 years #2 elder sister	Maria E Potts Birth 1859 29 29 Massachusetts, USA Death yes Loading...
7 years #3 herself	Emma Estella Potts Birth 14 May 1866 36 36 South Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA Death yes Loading...
4 years #4 younger brother	George Robert Potts Birth 20 June 1870 40 40 Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA Death yes Loading...

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husband	… Twining Loading...
herself	Emma Estella Potts Birth 14 May 1866 36 36 South Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA Death yes Loading...
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#1 daughter	Yvonne Twining Birth 1909 42 Loading...

Emma Estella Potts has 12 first cousins recorded

Father's family (12)

Parents Robert Siddell + Maria Potts

1 Mary Siddell 1847–?

2 George Abram Siddell 1848–1933

3 Sarah Siddell 1849–?

4 Isabella "Belle" Siddell 1852–?

5 Estella Siddell 1854–1907

6 Herman Potts Siddell 1857–1908

7 Maria Romelia Siddell 1857–1858

Parents Herman Thorne Potts + Nancy J. Bacon

1 Ameila Potts 1857–1885

2 Clara E. Potts 1860–1926

3 Lillian Adele Potts 1866–?

Parents George B Lee + Elizabeth Jane Potts

1 Grace Lee 1862–?

2 Robert Lee 1863–?

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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

1870 USA Census transcript - Robert Alvin Potts - Household

Name	Age	Sex	Race	Occupation	Assets	Birthplace	Edu
Elizabeth Reynold	39	F	W	Keeping House		USA, New York
Cora A. Potts	13	F	W	at Home		USA, Massachusetts	Y
Maria Potts	10	F	W	at Home		USA, Massachusetts	Y
Emma Estella Potts	4	F	W	at Home		United States, Massachusetts
Elizabeth Spickerman	70	F	W	No Occupation		USA, New York
Robert Alvin Potts	40	M	W	Farmer	12000	USA, New York

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.

Census

1880 USA Census transcript - Robert A Potts - Household

Name	Race	Sex	Age	Relation	MC	YrsM	Occupation	BP	FBP	MBP
Robert A Potts	W	M	49	Head	M	24	Farmer	NY	NY	NY
Elizabeth Reynold	W	F	49	wife	M	24		NY	NY	NY
Cora A. Potts	W	F	21	daughter	S	-	At Home	MA	NY	NY
Maria Potts	W	F	20	daughter	S	-	At Home	MA	NY	NY
Emma E. Potts	W	F	13	daughter	S	-	At Home	MA	NY	NY
George R Potts	W	M	9	son	S	-	At Home	MA	NY	NY

Australian History

The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged.

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.

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.

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.

Immigration

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This may ahve just been a visit???


Name: Yvonne Twining
Gender: Female
Age: 10
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1908
Date of Arrival: 18 Dec 1918
Vessel: Melita
Search Ship Database: View the 'Melita' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: St.John, New Brunswick
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
Roll: T-4833

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.

Census

1920 USA Census transcript - Ernest C Spurr - Household

Name	Relation	Sex	Age	MC	BP	FBP	MBP
Ernest C Spurr	Head	M	50	M	-	-	-
Cora A. Spurr	wife	F	53	M	MA	NY	NY
Emma E Potts	Sister-In-Law	F	50	W	MA	NY	NY
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The airline Qantas is founded

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Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament

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The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney

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Vegemite is first produced

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The first Miss Australia contest is held

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The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital

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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.

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Western Australia celebrates its centenary

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Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings

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Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia

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The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens

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Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments

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The last Thylacine dies

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The radio series Dad and Dave begins

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Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games

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(April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government

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A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin

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3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa.

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Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese

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Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary.

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Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW.

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the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader.

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Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme

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Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly.

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Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins

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1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea.

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Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand

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First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia.

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Elizabeth II and Prince Philip make a royal visit; the Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects, leading to the Petrov Affair and another split in the Labor Party

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Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement

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Television in Australia is launched.

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The song 'Wild One' makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts.

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Robert Menzies' Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that all Indigenous Australians should have the right to enrol and vote at federal elections, removing remaining restrictions applying in QLD, WA and NT.

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The Beatles tour Australia;

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Indigenous Australians gain right to vote in state of Queensland

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The ban on the employment of married women in the Commonwealth Public Service is lifted;

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Decimalisation; on 14 February the Australian currency is changed to dollars and cents, with the Australian Dollar replacing the Australian pound.

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Large areas of Hobart and south-eastern Tasmania are devastated by bushfires on 7 February that kill 62 people;

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Australia signs the nuclear non-proliferation treaty; Aboriginal boxing champion Lionel Rose defeats Masahiko 'Fighting' Harada in Japan to become the world bantamweight champion; Australia's first liver transplant operation is performed in Sydney;

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French conceptual artist Christo 'wraps' Little Bay in Sydney;

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More than 200,000 people participate in the largest demonstrations in Australian history, against the Vietnam War

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