Alexander NelsonAge: 431869–1912
- Name
- Alexander Nelson
- Given names
- Alexander
- Surname
- Nelson
| Birth | 1869 32 32 Clunes, Victoria, Australia |
| Marriage | Ann Mary Stearman - View family |
| 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 maternal grandmother | 12 April 1870 (Age 15 months) Talbot Road, Clunes, Victoria, Australia
maternal grandmother -
Ann Mills
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| Death of a father | 1870 (Age 12 months) Creswick, Victoria, Australia
father -
Alexander Nelson
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| Marriage of a mother | Letitia Hall - View family 8 April 1871 (Age 2) Victoria, Australia
step-father -
William Myott
mother -
Letitia Hall
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| Birth of a half-brother | 1 June 1872 (Age 3) Clunes, Victoria, Australia
half-brother -
Enoch Myott
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| Australian History | 1872 (Age 3) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Australian History | 1873 (Age 4) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Birth of a half-brother | 14 January 1875 (Age 6) Clunes, Victoria, Australia
half-brother -
John James Myott
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| Australian History | 1875 (Age 6) Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives. Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed. |
| Birth of a half-brother | 28 August 1877 (Age 8) Waranga, Victoria, Australia
half-brother -
Thomas Henry Myott
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| Australian History | 1878 (Age 9) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Death of a maternal grandfather | 17 February 1879 (Age 10) Undera, Victoria, Australia
maternal grandfather -
David Hall
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| Australian History | 1879 (Age 10) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Birth of a half-brother | 10 June 1880 (Age 11) Undera, Victoria, Australia
half-brother -
Samuel Henry Myott
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| Australian History | 1880 (Age 11) Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work. |
| Marriage of a brother | William Henry Nelson - View family 1882 (Age 13) Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
William Henry Nelson
sister-in-law -
Selina Doidge
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| Australian History | 1882 (Age 13) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 14) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Marriage of a sister | Mary Ann Nelson - View family 1886 (Age 17) Victoria, Australia
brother-in-law -
Albert Charles Walker
elder sister -
Mary Ann Nelson
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| Australian History | 1887 (Age 18) 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 20) 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 21) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 22) 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 23) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 24) 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 25) 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 26) 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 |
| Death of a sister | 1896 (Age 27) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
elder sister -
Mary Ann Nelson
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| Australian History | 1896 (Age 27) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 28) 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 29) 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 30) 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. |
| Marriage of a half-brother | Enoch Myott - View family 1900 (Age 31) Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
half-brother -
Enoch Myott
half-brother's wife -
Catherine D Davis
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| Australian History | 1900 (Age 31) 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 32) 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 33) 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 34) 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 |
| Marriage of a sister | Elizabeth Nelson - View family 1904 (Age 35) Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
brother-in-law -
Alfred Caunt
elder sister -
Elizabeth Nelson
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| Australian History | 1904 (Age 35) 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 son #1 | 29 July 1905 (Age 36) Gunning, New South Wales, Australia
son -
Jack Oswald Nelson
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| Australian History | 1906 (Age 37) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Marriage of a half-brother | Thomas Henry Myott - View family 1907 (Age 38) Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
half-brother -
Thomas Henry Myott
half-brother's wife -
Katherine E McCormick
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| Marriage of a half-brother | John James Myott - View family 1908 (Age 39) Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
half-brother -
John James Myott
half-brother's wife -
Mary A Ruschen
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| Australian History | 1908 (Age 39) 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 40) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 41) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 42) 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 (on the date of death) 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 | 1912 (Age 43) Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Alexander Nelson
Birth 1837 Rawdeerpark, Monaghan, Ireland Death 1870 (Age 33) Creswick, Victoria, Australia |
| mother |
Letitia Hall
Birth 1837 27 33 Drumswords, Monaghan, Ireland Death 2 August 1927 (Age 90) Redfern, New South Wales, Australia |
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Marriage: 3 July 1857 — Killeevan, Monaghan, Ireland |
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10 months #1 elder brother |
Birth 24 April 1858 21 21 Rawdeerpark, Monaghan, Ireland Death 9 September 1943 (Age 85) Albury, New South Wales, Australia |
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4 years #2 elder sister |
Birth 1862 25 25 Bet Bet, Victoria, Australia Death 1896 (Age 34) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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2 years #3 elder sister |
Elizabeth Nelson
Birth 1864 27 27 Clunes, Victoria, Australia Death 1927 (Age 63) Auburn, New South Wales, Australia |
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3 years #4 elder brother |
David Nelson
Birth 1867 30 30 Clunes, Victoria, Australia Death 27 September 1943 (Age 76) Albury, New South Wales, Australia |
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2 years #5 himself |
Alexander Nelson
Birth 1869 32 32 Clunes, Victoria, Australia Death 1912 (Age 43) Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia |
| Mother’s family with William Myott - View family |
| step-father |
William Myott
Birth 1820 Wolverhampton, England Death yes |
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17 years mother |
Letitia Hall
Birth 1837 27 33 Drumswords, Monaghan, Ireland Death 2 August 1927 (Age 90) Redfern, New South Wales, Australia |
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Marriage: 8 April 1871 — Victoria, Australia |
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14 months #1 half-brother |
Enoch Myott
Birth 1 June 1872 52 35 Clunes, Victoria, Australia Death yes |
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3 years #2 half-brother |
Birth 14 January 1875 55 38 Clunes, Victoria, Australia Death 28 August 1938 (Age 63) Henty, New South Wales, Australia |
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3 years #3 half-brother |
Thomas Henry Myott
Birth 28 August 1877 57 40 Waranga, Victoria, Australia Death 5 June 1967 (Age 89) Collaroy, New South Wales, Australia |
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3 years #4 half-brother |
Samuel Henry Myott
Birth 10 June 1880 60 43 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death yes |
| Family with Ann Mary Stearman - View family |
| himself |
Alexander Nelson
Birth 1869 32 32 Clunes, Victoria, Australia Death 1912 (Age 43) Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia |
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6 years wife |
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Marriage: yes |
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| #1 son |
Jack Oswald Nelson
Birth 29 July 1905 36 30 Gunning, New South Wales, Australia Death 3 August 1977 (Age 72) |