Daniel GreggAge: 491865–1915
- Name
- Daniel Gregg
- Given names
- Daniel
- Surname
- Gregg
| Birth | 28 June 1865 26 25 Tourello, Victoria, Australia |
| Birth of a brother | 27 October 1866 (Age 15 months) Creswick, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Finley Gregg
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| Australian History | 1867 (Age 18 months) Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. |
| Birth of a brother | 24 May 1868 (Age 2) Creswick, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Samuel Alexander Gregg
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| Australian History | 1868 (Age 2) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
| Australian History | 1869 (Age 3) Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. |
| Birth of a sister | about 1870 (Age 4) Australia
younger sister -
Eleanor Gregg
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| Birth of a sister | 20 December 1870 (Age 5)
younger sister -
Flora Gregg
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| Death of a sister | 25 July 1871 (Age 6)
younger sister -
Flora Gregg
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| Birth of a brother | 27 May 1872 (Age 6) Clunes Rd, Creswick, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
John Gregg
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| Australian History | 1872 (Age 6) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Birth of a brother | 28 August 1873 (Age 8) Creswick, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Angus Nicholson Gregg
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| Australian History | 1873 (Age 7) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Death of a sister | 26 April 1874 (Age 8)
younger sister -
Eleanor Gregg
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| Birth of a brother | 20 April 1875 (Age 9) Australia
younger brother -
Richard Gregg
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| Australian History | 1875 (Age 9) 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 brother | 19 February 1876 (Age 10) Australia
younger brother -
Richard Gregg
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| Birth of a sister | 14 May 1876 (Age 10) Tourello, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Annie "Marnet" Gregg
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| Australian History | 1878 (Age 12) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Birth of a sister | 29 April 1879 (Age 13) Tourello, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Euphemia Flora "Phemi" Gregg
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| Australian History | 1879 (Age 13) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 14) 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 16) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Birth of a sister | 21 August 1883 (Age 18) Australia
younger sister -
Christina Catherine Gregg
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| Australian History | 1883 (Age 17) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Death of a brother | 29 May 1885 (Age 19) Poowong, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Finley Gregg
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| Australian History | 1887 (Age 21) 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. |
| Death of a sister | 26 January 1888 (Age 22) Poowong, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Annie "Marnet" Gregg
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| Australian History | 1889 (Age 23) Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration. |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | 14 September 1890 (Age 25)
maternal grandmother -
Flora Nicholson
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| Australian History | 1890 (Age 24) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 25) 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 26) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 27) 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 28) 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 | Kate Ewers - View family 27 June 1895 (Age 29) Australia |
| Australian History | 1895 (Age 29) 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 |
| Birth of a daughter #1 | 27 June 1896 (Age 30) Australia
daughter -
Doris Helena Gregg
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| Marriage of a sister | Sarah Gregg - View family 4 August 1896 (Age 31) "Woodland Park", Poowong, Victoria, Australia
brother-in-law -
Frederick Umbers
elder sister -
Sarah Gregg
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| Australian History | 1896 (Age 30) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Birth of a son #2 | 14 December 1897 (Age 32) Yarragon, Victoria, Australia
son -
John Kenneth "Ken" Gregg
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| Australian History | 1897 (Age 31) 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 32) 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 33) 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 | 16 August 1900 (Age 35) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
son -
Angus Henry Gregg
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| Australian History | 1900 (Age 34) 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 35) 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 36) 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 son #4 | 1 January 1903 (Age 37)
son -
Alan Kieth Gregg
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| Australian History | 1903 (Age 37) 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 38) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government |
| Marriage of a brother | Angus Nicholson Gregg - View family 1906 (estimated) (Age 40)
younger brother -
Angus Nicholson Gregg
sister-in-law -
Jessie Cowper Hamilton
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| Australian History | 1906 (Age 40) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Marriage of a sister | Euphemia Flora "Phemi" Gregg - View family 1907 (Age 41)
brother-in-law -
Donald Mc Lennan
younger sister -
Euphemia Flora "Phemi" Gregg
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| Australian History | 1908 (Age 42) 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 43) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 44) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 45) 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 46) 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 mother | 1913 (Age 47) Poowong, Victoria, Australia
mother -
Catherine Mc Kay
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| Australian History | 1913 (Age 47) 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 47) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 48) 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 49) 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 |
| Death | 20 January 1915 (Age 49) Australia Cause of death: Fell in front of an engine his horses were pulling restively. Daniel Gregg Death Notice Note: GREGG, On the 30th January, 1915 (result of accident, at Melbourne, Daniel, beloved of Kate Gregg, of Childers, and eldest son of Richard Gregg, of Poowong, aged 49 years. The Gippsland Times. (1915, February 1). Gippsland Times (Vic. : 1861 - 1954), p. 2 Edition: MORNINGS.. Note: Daniel Gregg, a farmer, of Childers, died in a hospital in Melbourne last week from injuries received by falling in front of an engine his horses were pulling restively. |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Richard Gregg
Birth 1839 29 Kilmacrenan, Donegal, Ireland Death 1922 (Age 83) Loch, Victoria, Australia |
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1 year mother |
Catherine Mc Kay
Birth 1840 Isle of Skye, Scotland Death 1913 (Age 73) Poowong, Victoria, Australia |
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Marriage: 7 May 1863 — Ascot, Victoria, Australia |
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13 months #1 elder sister |
Sarah Gregg
Birth 13 June 1864 25 24 Cattle Station Hill, Victoria, Australia Death 29 March 1949 (Age 84) Poowong, Victoria, Australia |
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1 year #2 himself |
Birth 28 June 1865 26 25 Tourello, Victoria, Australia Death 20 January 1915 (Age 49) Australia |
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16 months #3 younger brother |
Finley Gregg
Birth 27 October 1866 27 26 Creswick, Victoria, Australia Death 29 May 1885 (Age 18) Poowong, Victoria, Australia |
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19 months #4 younger brother |
Birth 24 May 1868 29 28 Creswick, Victoria, Australia Death November 1943 (Age 75) |
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19 months #5 younger sister |
Eleanor Gregg
Birth about 1870 31 30 Australia Death 26 April 1874 (Age 4) |
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1 year #6 younger sister |
Flora Gregg
Birth 20 December 1870 31 30 Death 25 July 1871 (Age 7 months) |
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17 months #7 younger brother |
Birth 27 May 1872 33 32 Clunes Rd, Creswick, Victoria, Australia Death 22 December 1953 (Age 81) Korumburra, Victoria, Australia |
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15 months #8 younger brother |
Birth 28 August 1873 34 33 Creswick, Victoria, Australia Death 27 April 1919 (Age 45) Kew, Victoria, Australia |
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20 months #9 younger brother |
Richard Gregg
Birth 20 April 1875 36 35 Australia Death 19 February 1876 (Age 9 months) Australia |
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13 months #10 younger sister |
Annie "Marnet" Gregg
Birth 14 May 1876 37 36 Tourello, Victoria, Australia Death 26 January 1888 (Age 11) Poowong, Victoria, Australia |
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3 years #11 younger sister |
Birth 29 April 1879 40 39 Tourello, Victoria, Australia Death 25 October 1948 (Age 69) Wycheproof, Victoria, Australia |
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4 years #12 younger sister |
Birth 21 August 1883 44 43 Australia Death 12 January 1927 (Age 43) Australia |
| Family with Kate Ewers - View family |
| himself |
Birth 28 June 1865 26 25 Tourello, Victoria, Australia Death 20 January 1915 (Age 49) Australia |
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Marriage: 27 June 1895 — Australia |
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1 year #1 daughter |
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18 months #2 son |
Birth 14 December 1897 32 Yarragon, Victoria, Australia Death 27 July 1967 (Age 69) Australia |
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3 years #3 son |
Birth 16 August 1900 35 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Death 20 December 1972 (Age 72) Australia |
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2 years #4 son |
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Daniel Gregg has 10 first cousins recorded
Father's family (9)
Parents John Johnston + Mary Gregg
Parents Robert Gregg + Isabella Gibson
Parents Robert Starritt + Catherine Gregg
Daniel Gregg 1865-1915
DANIEL Gregg, the eldest son of Richard and Catherine Gregg, was born at Tourello, in the Shire of Creswick on 28th June 1865. A man of excellent character, he was loved and respected by all who knew him. Daniel married Kate Ewers on 27th June 1895. They lived on a heavily timbered farm at Childers, in the Gippsland hills. Besides other farm produce, raspberries were grown for market. They were packed in specially made berry fruit buckets, and sent by rail to the Victoria Market in Melbourne. Their children, Doris, Kenneth, Angus and Alan, grew up happily at "Inverleigh" The whole family were faithful members of the Childers Methodist church. As the result of an accident on the farm, Daniel Gregg died on 20th January 1915. Badly crushed by heavy machinery, he was conveyed on a stretcher in the guardsvan of a train from Yarragon to Melbourne, where he died in hospital. His remains were interred in the Poowong cemetery. His wife, Kate, passed away on 24th October 1916.
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