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Anne RichardsonAge: 771818–1895

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Anne Richardson
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Anne
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Birth 26 April 1818 35 24
 

Australian History 1818
 

Note: Oxley charts the Macquarie River.
Australian History 1824 (Age 5)
 

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 6)
 

Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed.
Australian History 1828 (Age 9)
 

Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.
Australian History 1829 (Age 10)
 

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 11)
 

Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.
Australian History 1831 (Age 12)
 

Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Death of a mother 2 December 1832 (Age 14)
 

mother - Hannah Mitchell
Australian History 1832 (Age 13)
 

Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Australian History 1833 (Age 14)
 

Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History 1835 (Age 16)
 

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 17)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History 1838 (Age 19)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History 1839 (Age 20)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
MarriageWilliam Dobson - View family
March 1840 (Age 21)
 Leeds, Yorkshire, England

Death of a father 18 April 1840 (Age 21)
 Snaith, Yorkshire, England

father - Swain Richardson
Australian History 1840 (Age 21)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Death of a maternal grandfather 19 January 1841 (Age 22)
 Snaith, Yorkshire, England

maternal grandfather - Thomas Mitchell
Birth of a son
#1		 4 July 1841 (Age 23)
 Snaith, Yorkshire, England

son - Henry Dobson
Australian History 1841 (Age 22)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 23)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 24)
 

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 26)
 

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 31)
 

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.
Death of a maternal grandmother 1 January 1851 (Age 32)
 Snaith, Yorkshire, England

maternal grandmother - Ann Nicholson
Australian History 1851 (Age 32)
 

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 34)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History 1854 (Age 35)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 36)
 

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 37)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 38)
 

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 39)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1859 (Age 40)
 

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.
Australian History 1860 (Age 41)
 

Note: John McDouall Stuart reaches the centre of the continent. South Australian border changed from 132 degrees E to 129 degrees E.
Australian History 1861 (Age 42)
 

Note: The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs.
Note: skiing in Australia introduced by Norwegians in the Snowy Mountains goldrush town of Kiandra
Australian History 1862 (Age 43)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 44)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Australian History 1867 (Age 48)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Australian History 1868 (Age 49)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 50)
 

Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.
Marriage of a sonHenry Dobson - View family
29 June 1871 (Age 53)
 

son - Henry Dobson
daughter-in-law - Sarah Ann Walker
Birth of a grandson
#1		 12 July 1872 (Age 54)
 Exton, Tasmania, Australia

grandson - George Edward Dobson
Australian History 1872 (Age 53)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Birth of a grandson
#2		 3 October 1873 (Age 55)
 Exton, Tasmania, Australia

grandson - Samuel Hildreth Dobson
Australian History 1873 (Age 54)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Birth of a grandson
#3		 8 March 1875 (Age 56)
 Exton, Tasmania, Australia

grandson - Alexander John Dobson
Australian History 1875 (Age 56)
 

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 grandson
#4		 21 August 1876 (Age 58)
 Exton, Tasmania, Australia

grandson - Walter Thomas Dobson
Birth of a grandson
#5		 12 April 1878 (Age 59)
 Exton, Tasmania, Australia

grandson - William Michael Henry Dobson
Australian History 1878 (Age 59)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Birth of a granddaughter
#6		 27 December 1879 (Age 61)
 Exton, Tasmania, Australia

granddaughter - Lillias May Dobson
Australian History 1879 (Age 60)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 61)
 

Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged.
Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work.
Birth of a grandson
#7		 13 October 1881 (Age 63)
 Exton, Tasmania, Australia

grandson - Stephen Peter Dobson
Australian History 1882 (Age 63)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Birth of a granddaughter
#8		 28 July 1883 (Age 65)
 Exton, Tasmania, Australia

granddaughter - Ethel Ann Dobson
Australian History 1883 (Age 64)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Birth of a granddaughter
#9		 29 November 1884 (Age 66)
 Exton, Tasmania, Australia

granddaughter - Mabel Ann Dobson
Death of a granddaughter 29 December 1884 (Age 66)
 Westbury, Tasmania, Australia

granddaughter - Ethel Ann Dobson
Death of a granddaughter 29 December 1884 (Age 66)
 Westbury, Tasmania, Australia

granddaughter - Mabel Ann Dobson
Death of a husband 24 February 1885 (Age 66)
 Glenore, Hagley, Tasmania, Australia

husband - William Dobson
Birth of a grandson
#10		 2 November 1885 (Age 67)
 Exton, Tasmania, Australia

grandson - Louis Robert Dobson
Australian History 1887 (Age 68)
 

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 granddaughter
#11		 23 February 1888 (Age 69)
 Elizabeth Town, Tasmania, Australia

granddaughter - Ada Mary Dobson
Birth of a grandson
#12		 23 December 1889 (Age 71)
 Elizabeth Town, Tasmania, Australia

grandson - Henry Arthur Dobson
Australian History 1889 (Age 70)
 

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 71)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Birth of a granddaughter
#13		 24 June 1891 (Age 73)
 Elizabeth Town, Tasmania, Australia

granddaughter - Leila Florence Dobson
Australian History 1891 (Age 72)
 

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 73)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Birth of a granddaughter
#14		 14 October 1893 (Age 75)
 Elizabeth Town, Tasmania, Australia

granddaughter - Myrtle Sarah Dobson
Birth of a grandson
#15		 19 November 1893 (Age 75)
 Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia

grandson - …
Australian History 1893 (Age 74)
 

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 75)
 

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 76)
 

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 18 June 1895 (Age 77)
 Hagley, Tasmania, Australia

Cause of death: Carcinvina of the liver
Family with parents - View family
father
Swain Richardson

Birth 1783 25  Cowick Near Exeter, Devon, England

Death 18 April 1840 (Age 57)  Snaith, Yorkshire, England

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11 years
mother
Hannah Mitchell

Birth 1794 27 25  Cowick Near Exeter, Devon, England

Death 2 December 1832 (Age 38)  

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Marriage: 11 October 1814
4 years
#1 herself
Anne Richardson

Birth 26 April 1818 35 24  

Death 18 June 1895 (Age 77)  Hagley, Tasmania, Australia

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Family with William Dobson - View family
husband
William Dobson

Birth 20 May 1817 29  Airmyn, Yorkshire, England

Death 24 February 1885 (Age 67)  Glenore, Hagley, Tasmania, Australia

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11 months
herself
Anne Richardson

Birth 26 April 1818 35 24  

Death 18 June 1895 (Age 77)  Hagley, Tasmania, Australia

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Marriage: March 1840 — Leeds, Yorkshire, England
16 months
#1 son
Henry Dobson

Birth 4 July 1841 24 23  Snaith, Yorkshire, England

Death 13 August 1920 (Age 79)  Penguin, Tasmania, Australia

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