Anna GreggAge: 291879–1908
- Name
- Anna Gregg
- Given names
- Anna
- Surname
- Gregg
Annie Gregg
- Name
- Annie Gregg
- Given names
- Annie
- Surname
- Gregg
| Birth | about 1879 24 New Zealand |
| Marriage | James Patrick Beech - View family |
| Occupation | Teacher aid - Makakahi, New Zealand |
| Australian History | 1879 Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 12 months) 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 3) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 4) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 8) 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 10) 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 11) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 12) 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 13) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 14) 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 15) 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 16) 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 17) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 18) 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 19) 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. |
| Death of a paternal grandmother | 1899 (Age 20)
paternal grandmother -
Ann Mc Connell
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| Australian History | 1899 (Age 20) 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 21) 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 22) 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 23) 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 24) 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 25) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government |
| Birth of a daughter #1 | 27 April 1906 (Age 27)
daughter -
Maureen Anne Beech
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| Australian History | 1906 (Age 27) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Birth of a daughter #2 | 4 May 1908 (on the date of death) New Zealand
daughter -
Mary Gregg Beech
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| Australian History | 1908 (Age 29) Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead |
| Death | 4 May 1908 (Age 29) New Zealand |
| Burial | Mangitinoka, New Zealand |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Richard Gregg
Birth 3 April 1854 44 Ballynascadden, Ireland Death 4 November 1913 (Age 59) Mangatera, Dannevirke, New Zealand |
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Marriage: 18 May 1878 |
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Robert Gregg
Birth New Zealand Death yes |
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John Gregg
Birth New Zealand Death yes |
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Richard Gregg
Birth New Zealand Death yes |
| Family with James Patrick Beech - View family |
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Marriage: yes |
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2 years #4 daughter |
Mary Gregg Beech
Birth 4 May 1908 29 New Zealand Death 19 September 1963 (Age 55) New Zealand |
Anna Gregg has 32 first cousins recorded
Father's family (32)
Parents Robert Rutherford + Mary Gregg
Parents Robert Gregg + Maggie Mc Fadden
Parents Thomas Gregg + Margaret Farrelly
Parents George Burrowes + Eliza Gregg
Parents Robert Rutherford + Sarah Ann Gregg
Mother's family (0)
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