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Jean Pike?–1942

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Australian History 1872
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873
 

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

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
 

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

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880
 

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
 

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

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Australian History 1887
 

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.
Birth of a son
#1		 1888
 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia

son - George Lavender
Birth of a daughter
#2		 1889
 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia

daughter - Norah Lavender
Australian History 1889
 

Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.
Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration.
Birth of a son
#3		 1890
 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia

son - Cecil "Charlie" Lavender
Australian History 1890
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History 1891
 

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
Birth of a daughter
#4		 1892
 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia

daughter - Doris Lavender
Australian History 1892
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Birth of a daughter
#5		 1893
 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia

daughter - Jessie Lavender
Australian History 1893
 

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.
Birth of a daughter
#6		 1894
 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia

daughter - Mabel Lavender
Australian History 1894
 

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
 

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
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Birth of a son
#7		 1897
 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia

son - Victor Lavender
Australian History 1897
 

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
 

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
 

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
 

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
 

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
 

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
 

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
 

Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital
Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government
MarriageGeorge A Lavender - View family
1906
 Windsor, New South Wales, Australia

Note: Cecil Lavender and Jane Pike had a large number of children before they married. Only their last child, Richard, is registered under the surname “Lavender”. The others are all registered under the name “Pike” (mother’s maiden name) with no father given. However, as the first child, born in 1888, was named George, it seems extremely likely that George Lavender was the father of all of the children.
Australian History 1906
 

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Birth of a son
#8		 1907
 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia

son - Richard Lavender
Australian History 1908
 

Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country
Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead
Australian History 1909
 

Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History 1910
 

Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History 1911
 

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
 

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
 

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

Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History 1914
 

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
 

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 of a son 17 February 1916
 Cairo, Egypt

son - George Lavender
Australian History 1916
 

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
 

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.
Birth of a grandson
#1		 1918
 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia

grandson - Harold Lavender
Australian History 1918
 

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.
Birth of a grandson
#2		 1919
 Richmond, New South Wales, Australia

grandson - Cecil Jack Lavender
Australian History 1919
 

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
 

Note: The airline Qantas is founded
Australian History 1921
 

Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament
Australian History 1922
 

Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney
Australian History 1923
 

Note: Vegemite is first produced
Australian History 1926
 

Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held
Australian History 1927
 

Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital
Australian History 1928
 

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
 

Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary
Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia.
Australian History 1930
 

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
 

Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia
Australian History 1932
 

Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens
Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister
Australian History 1933
 

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
 

Note: The last Thylacine dies
Australian History 1937
 

Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins
Australian History 1938
 

Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games
Australian History 1939
 

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
 

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
 

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 (on the date of death)
 

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.
Death 1942
 Windsor, New South Wales, Australia

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father
George Robert Pike

Birth 1841 26  Penrith, New South Wales, Australia

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mother
Susan Fayers
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Marriage: 1867 — Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
#1 herself
Jean Pike

Death 1942  Windsor, New South Wales, Australia

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Family with George A Lavender - View family
husband
George A Lavender

Birth 1852  Agnes Banks, New South Wales, Australia

Death 8 December 1949 (Age 97)  Richmond, New South Wales, Australia

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herself
Jean Pike

Death 1942  Windsor, New South Wales, Australia

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Marriage: 1906 — Windsor, New South Wales, Australia
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#1 son
George Lavender

Birth 1888 36  Richmond, New South Wales, Australia

Death 17 February 1916 (Age 28)  Cairo, Egypt

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#2 daughter
Norah Lavender

Birth 1889 37  Richmond, New South Wales, Australia

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#3 son
Cecil "Charlie" Lavender

Birth 1890 38  Richmond, New South Wales, Australia

Death 26 June 1949 (Age 59)  Windsor, New South Wales, Australia

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#4 daughter
Doris Lavender

Birth 1892 40  Richmond, New South Wales, Australia

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#5 daughter
Jessie Lavender

Birth 1893 41  Richmond, New South Wales, Australia

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#6 daughter
Mabel Lavender

Birth 1894 42  Richmond, New South Wales, Australia

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#7 son
Victor Lavender

Birth 1897 45  Richmond, New South Wales, Australia

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#8 son
Richard Lavender

Birth 1907 55  Richmond, New South Wales, Australia

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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.

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

Marriage
Cecil Lavender and Jane Pike had a large number of children before they married. Only their last child, Richard, is registered under the surname “Lavender”. The others are all registered under the name “Pike” (mother’s maiden name) with no father given. However, as the first child, born in 1888, was named George, it seems extremely likely that George Lavender was the father of all of the children.

Marriage
Cecil Lavender and Jane Pike had a large number of children before they married. Only their last child, Richard, is registered under the surname “Lavender”. The others are all registered under the name “Pike” (mother’s maiden name) with no father given. However, as the first child, born in 1888, was named George, it seems extremely likely that George Lavender was the father of all of the children.

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.

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.

Australian History
The airline Qantas is founded

Australian History
Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament

Australian History
The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney

Australian History
Vegemite is first produced

Australian History
The first Miss Australia contest is held

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

Australian History
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
Western Australia celebrates its centenary

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

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

Australian History
The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens

Australian History
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
The last Thylacine dies

Australian History
The radio series Dad and Dave begins

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

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

Australian History
A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin

Australian History
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.

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


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