Alexander HallAge: 631869–1933
- Name
- Alexander Hall
- Given names
- Alexander
- Surname
- Hall
| Birth | 18 September 1869 42 37 Ararat, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1869 Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. |
| Death of a paternal grandmother | 12 April 1870 (Age 6 months) Talbot Road, Clunes, Victoria, Australia
paternal grandmother -
Ann Mills
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| Australian History | 1872 (Age 2) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Australian History | 1873 (Age 3) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Birth of a brother | 3 March 1874 (Age 4) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Henry Brice Hall
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| Australian History | 1875 (Age 5) Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives. Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed. |
| Marriage of a sister | Eliza Jane Hall - View family 13 September 1877 (Age 7) Victoria, Australia
brother-in-law -
George Andrew Crozier
elder sister -
Eliza Jane Hall
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| Death of a sister | 18 November 1877 (Age 8)
elder sister -
Isabella Hall
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| Marriage of a sister | Mary Ann Hall - View family 1878 (Age 8) Altrincham, Cheshire, England
brother-in-law -
George Walter Adams
elder sister -
Mary Ann Hall
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| Australian History | 1878 (Age 8) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | 17 February 1879 (Age 9) Undera, Victoria, Australia
paternal grandfather -
David Hall
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| Australian History | 1879 (Age 9) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 10) 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 12) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 13) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 17) 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. |
| Marriage of a brother | John James Hall - View family 1888 (Age 18) Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
John James Hall
sister-in-law -
Emily Caroline Randall
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| Marriage of a brother | David Henry Hall - View family 1889 (Age 19) Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
David Henry Hall
sister-in-law -
Isabella McKenzie
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| Australian History | 1889 (Age 19) 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 20) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 21) 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 22) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 23) 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 24) 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. |
| Marriage | Dorothy Murray McKenzie - View family 1895 (Age 25) Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1895 (Age 25) 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 26) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Marriage of a brother | Robert William Hall - View family 1897 (Age 27) Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
Robert William Hall
sister-in-law -
Martha Martin
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| Australian History | 1897 (Age 27) 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. |
| Birth of a daughter #1 | 1898 (Age 28) Wyuna, Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Dororthy Mary Hall
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| Marriage of a brother | Henry Brice Hall - View family 1898 (Age 28) Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Henry Brice Hall
sister-in-law -
Eleanor Mary Martin
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| Australian History | 1898 (Age 28) 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. |
| Birth of a daughter #2 | 1899 (Age 29) Wyuna, Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Isabella May Hall
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| Australian History | 1899 (Age 29) 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. |
| Birth of a son #3 | 1900 (Age 30) Wyuna, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1900 (Age 30) 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 31) 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 |
| Birth of a son #4 | 1902 (Age 32) Wyuna, Victoria, Australia
son -
George Hall
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| Death of a mother | 14 March 1902 (Age 32) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
mother -
Mary Corbett
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| Australian History | 1902 (Age 32) 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 |
| Birth of a daughter #5 | 1903 (Age 33) Wyuna, Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Melba Elizabeth Hall
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| Australian History | 1903 (Age 33) 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 34) 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 36) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Birth of a son #6 | 1907 (Age 37) Wyuna, Victoria, Australia
son -
Hugh Rodney Hall
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| Australian History | 1908 (Age 38) 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 39) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 40) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 41) 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 42) 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 43) 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 43) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 44) 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 45) 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 46) 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 47) 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 48) 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 49) 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 50) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 51) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 52) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 53) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 56) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Death of a sister | 1927 (Age 57) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
elder sister -
Mary Ann Hall
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| Australian History | 1927 (Age 57) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 58) 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 59) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Death of a brother | 1930 (Age 60) West Wyalong, New South Wales, Australia
elder brother -
Robert William Hall
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| Australian History | 1930 (Age 60) 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 61) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Death of a wife | 1932 (Age 62) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
wife -
Dorothy Murray McKenzie
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| Death of a brother | 7 January 1932 (Age 62) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
John James Hall
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| Australian History | 1932 (Age 62) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1933 (Age 63) 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 | 11 March 1933 (Age 63) Age: 65 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Alexander hall.jpg |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
John Hall
Birth 1827 17 23 Killeevan, Monaghan, Ireland Death 8 December 1854 (Age 27) Headstone, Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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5 years mother |
Mary Corbett
Birth 25 December 1831 Killeevan, County Monaghan, Ireland Death 14 March 1902 (Age 70) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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Marriage: 20 February 1854 — St Andrews, Scotshouse, Currin Parish, Ireland |
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21 months #1 elder sister |
Eliza Jane Hall
Birth 28 November 1855 28 23 Drumreagh, Currin, Monaghan, Ireland Death 1942 (Age 86) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia |
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13 months #2 elder sister |
Mary Ann Hall
Birth 1857 30 25 Drumreagh, Currin, Monaghan, Ireland Death 1927 (Age 70) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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3 years #3 elder sister |
Letita Hall
Birth 1860 33 28 Death 14 October 1861 (Age 21 months) |
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3 years #4 elder sister |
Isabella Hall
Birth 22 September 1862 35 30 Clunes, Victoria, Australia Death 18 November 1877 (Age 15) |
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18 months #5 elder brother |
John James Hall
Birth 31 March 1864 37 32 Tourello, Victoria, Australia Death 7 January 1932 (Age 67) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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18 months #6 elder brother |
David Henry Hall
Birth 18 September 1865 38 33 Clunes, Victoria, Australia Death 15 January 1943 (Age 77) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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2 years #7 elder brother |
Robert William Hall
Birth 26 October 1867 40 35 Clunes, Victoria, Australia Death 1930 (Age 62) West Wyalong, New South Wales, Australia |
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23 months #8 himself |
Alexander Hall
Birth 18 September 1869 42 37 Ararat, Victoria, Australia Death 11 March 1933 (Age 63) Age: 65 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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4 years #9 younger brother |
Henry Brice Hall
Birth 3 March 1874 47 42 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Death 1959 (Age 84) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Family with Dorothy Murray McKenzie - View family |
| himself |
Alexander Hall
Birth 18 September 1869 42 37 Ararat, Victoria, Australia Death 11 March 1933 (Age 63) Age: 65 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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-5 years wife |
Dorothy Murray McKenzie
Birth 1865 Echuca, Victoria, Australia Death 1932 (Age 67) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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Marriage: 1895 — Victoria, Australia |
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3 years #1 daughter |
Dororthy Mary Hall
Birth 1898 28 33 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia Death 1946 (Age 48) Parkville, Victoria, Australia |
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1 year #2 daughter |
Isabella May Hall
Birth 1899 29 34 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia Death 1978 (Age 79) Tallangatta, Victoria, Australia |
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1 year #3 son |
John Alexander Baden Powell Hall
Birth 1900 30 35 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia Death 1976 (Age 76) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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2 years #4 son |
George Hall
Birth 1902 32 37 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia Death yes |
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1 year #5 daughter |
Melba Elizabeth Hall
Birth 1903 33 38 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia Death 1962 (Age 59) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia |
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4 years #6 son |
Hugh Rodney Hall
Birth 1907 37 42 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia Death yes |
Alexander Hall has 27 first cousins recorded
Father's family (27)
Parents Matthew Madill + Mary Ann Hall
Parents Alexander Nelson + Letitia Hall
Parents William Myott + Letitia Hall
Parents David Hall + Elizabeth Ann Scott
Mother's family (0)
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