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Margaret Helen HoneymanAge: 881771–1859

Name
Margaret Helen Honeyman
Given names
Margaret Helen
Surname
Honeyman
Married Name
Margaret Helen Smeaton
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Birth 22 July 1771
 Dron, Perth, Scotland

Australian History 1788 (Age 16)
 

Note: The British First Fleet, led by Governor Arthur Phillip arrives in New South Wales to found first European settlement and penal colony at Sydney. Colony includes 'all the islands adjacent in the Pacific Ocean' and running westward to the 135th meridian east. This claim included the islands of New Zealand, which were administered as part of New South Wales.
Note: British settlement founded at Norfolk Island.
Australian History 1790 (Age 18)
 

Note: Beleaguered Second Fleet arrives. Colony gripped by food crisis.
Australian History 1792 (Age 20)
 

Note: Two French ships, La Recherche and L'Esp�rance, anchor at Recherche Bay, near the southernmost point of Tasmania at a time when England and France were racing around the globe to be the first to discover and colonise Australia.
Note: Governor Philip returns to England, accompanied by his friend Bennelong and a companion who become the first Australian born person to sail to Europe.
Australian History 1797 (Age 25)
 

Note: Sydney Cove wrecked and some survivors travelled from Bass Strait to Port Jackson allowing for the rescue of others but also furthering knowledge of the geography of Australia.
Australian History 1798 (Age 26)
 

Note: 1798-9 - George Bass and Matthew Flinders sail from Sydney and circumnavigate Tasmania, thus proving it to be an island.
MarriageWilliam Smeaton - View family
25 August 1799 (Age 28)
 

Australian History 1803 (Age 31)
 

Note: Matthew Flinders completes the first circumnavigation of the continent (still known as 'New Holland')
Australian History 1804 (Age 32)
 

Note: A settlement is founded at Risdon on the Derwent River in Van Diemen's Land by Lieutenant Bowen.
Note: Castle Hill convict rebellion also known as the second Battle of Vinegar Hill
Note: The Risdon settlement is moved to Sullivan's Cove (now Hobart) by Colonel David Collins.
Australian History 1808 (Age 36)
 

Note: The Rum Rebellion
Birth of a daughter
#1		 1815 (Age 43)
 Dunfermline, Scotland

daughter - Janet Smeaton
Australian History 1817 (Age 45)
 

Note: John Oxley charts the Lachlan River
Note: Australia's first bank, the Bank of New South Wales, opens in Macquarie Place, Sydney (it became Westpac in 1982).
Note: Governor Lachlan Macquarie petitioned the British Admiralty to use the name 'Australia' instead of 'New Holland'
Australian History 1818 (Age 46)
 

Note: Oxley charts the Macquarie River.
Australian History 1824 (Age 52)
 

Note: A penal colony is founded at Moreton Bay, now the city of Brisbane.
Note: Bathurst and Melville Islands are annexed.
Note: Permission granted to change the name of the continent from 'New Holland' to 'Australia'
Note: 1824-25 - Hume and Hovell expedition travels overland to Port Phillip Bay, discovers Murray River
Australian History 1825 (Age 53)
 

Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed.
Australian History 1828 (Age 56)
 

Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.
Australian History 1829 (Age 57)
 

Note: The whole of Australia is claimed as British territory. The settlement of Perth is founded. Swan River Colony is declared by Charles Fremantle for Britain.
Australian History 1830 (Age 58)
 

Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.
Australian History 1831 (Age 59)
 

Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Death of a husband 1832 (Age 60)
 Forteviot, Perth, Scotland

husband - William Smeaton
Australian History 1832 (Age 60)
 

Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Australian History 1833 (Age 61)
 

Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History 1835 (Age 63)
 

Note: John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner establish a settlement at Port Phillip, now the city of Melbourne.
Note: William Wentworth establishes Australian Patriotic Association (Australia's first political party) to demand democracy for New South Wales.
Australian History 1836 (Age 64)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History 1838 (Age 66)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Marriage of a daughterJanet Smeaton - View family
24 November 1839 (Age 68)
 

son-in-law - Andrew Greig Wilson
daughter - Janet Smeaton
Australian History 1839 (Age 67)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History 1840 (Age 68)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Australian History 1841 (Age 69)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 70)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Birth of a grandson
#1		 5 February 1843 (Age 71)
 

grandson - David Lundie Wilson
Australian History 1843 (Age 71)
 

Note: Australia's first parliamentary elections held for the New South Wales Legislative Council (though voting rights are restricted to males of certain wealth or property).
Australian History 1845 (Age 73)
 

Note: The ship Cataraqui is wrecked off King Island in Bass Strait. It is Australia's worst civil maritime disaster, with 406 lives lost.
Note: Copper is discovered at Burra in South Australia.
Australian History 1850 (Age 78)
 

Note: Western Australia becomes a penal colony.
Note: Australian Colonies Government Act [1850] grants representative constitutions to New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania, colonies set about writing constitutions which produced democratically progressive parliaments
Note: Australia's first university, the University of Sydney, is founded.
Australian History 1851 (Age 79)
 

Note: Victoria separates from New South Wales.
Note: The Victorian gold rush starts when gold is found at Summerhill Creek and Ballarat.
Note: Forest Creek Monster Meeting of miners at Chewton near Castlemaine
Australian History 1853 (Age 81)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History 1854 (Age 82)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 83)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Norfolk Island ceases.
Note: All men over 21 years of age obtain the right to vote in South Australia.
Australian History 1856 (Age 84)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 85)
 

Note: Victorian Committee reported that a 'federal union' would be in the interests of all the growing colonies. However, there was not enough interest in or enthusiasm for taking positive steps towards bringing the colonies together.
Note: Victorian men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1858 (Age 86)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1859 (Age 87)
 

Note: SS Admella wrecked off south-east coast of South Australia with the loss of 89 lives.
Note: Australian rules football codified, Melbourne Football Club founded
Note: Queensland separates from New South Wales with its western border at 141 degrees E.
Death 31 August 1859 (Age 88)
 Fossoway, Kinross, Scotland

Family with William Smeaton - View family
husband
William Smeaton

Birth 8 March 1776 36  Forteriot, Perth, Scotland

Death 1832 (Age 55)  Forteviot, Perth, Scotland

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Margaret Helen Honeyman

Birth 22 July 1771  Dron, Perth, Scotland

Death 31 August 1859 (Age 88)  Fossoway, Kinross, Scotland

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Marriage: 25 August 1799
15 years
#1 daughter
Janet Smeaton

Birth 1815 38 43  Dunfermline, Scotland

Death 12 December 1883 (Age 68)  

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