Robert Henry Potts 1878

Robert Henry PottsAge: 431878–1922

Name: Robert Henry Potts

Given names: Robert Henry

Surname: Potts

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Birth

8 April 1878 25 20

Connecticut, USA

Australian History

1878

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

Birth of a brother

17 May 1879 (Age 13 months)

Berlin, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

younger brother - William L. Potts

Marriage of parents

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1879 (Age 8 months)

father - Robert Elliott Potts

mother - Julia M. Dickinson

Australian History

1879 (Age 8 months)

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.

Census

1 June 1880 (Age 2)

Berlin, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Shared note: 1880 USA Census transcript - Robert Elliott Potts - Household

Name	Sex	Age	Relation	MC	YrsM	Occupation	BP	FBP	MBP
Robert E Potts	M	27	Head	M	<1	Meat Market	MA	NY	NY
Julia M. Potts	F	22	wife	M	<1		CT	-	-
Robert H Potts	M	2	son	S	-		CT	MA	CT
William L. Potts	M	1	son	S	-		CT	MA	CT

Australian History

1880 (Age 20 months)

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 3)

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

Birth of a brother

24 September 1883 (Age 5)

Middlefield, Connecticut, USA

younger brother - Frank Dickinson Potts

Australian History

1883 (Age 4)

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway

Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill

Death of a mother

13 September 1885 (Age 7)

East Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA

mother - Julia M. Dickinson

Australian History

1887 (Age 8)

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.

Marriage of a father

Robert Elliott Potts - View family
December 1887 (estimated) (Age 9)

Connecticut, USA

father - Robert Elliott Potts

step-mother - Lillian E Aichler

Birth of a half-sister

August 1888 (Age 10)

Connecticut, USA

half-sister - Charlotte "Lottie" Potts

Death of a maternal grandfather

1888 (Age 9)

maternal grandfather - Henry Lyman Dickinson

Australian History

1889 (Age 10)

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 11)

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.

Australian History

1891 (Age 12)

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 13)

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.

Australian History

1893 (Age 14)

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.

Marriage of a father

Robert Elliott Potts - View family
19 March 1894 (Age 15)

District of Columbia, USA

father - Robert Elliott Potts

step-mother - Ida Shaw

Australian History

1894 (Age 15)

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.

Death of a brother

29 December 1895 (Age 17)

East Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA

younger brother - William L. Potts

Australian History

1895 (Age 16)

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 (Age 17)

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution

Australian History

1897 (Age 18)

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.

Military

Spanish American War

1898 (Age 19)

Agency: 1st District of Columbus Volunteer Infantry, Co. D

Note: The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States. It ended with the Americans defeating the Spaniards. Revolts against Spanish rule had been endemic for decades in Cuba and were closely watched by Americans; there had been war scares before, as in the Virginius Affair in 1873. By 1897–98, American public opinion grew angrier at reports of Spanish atrocities. After the mysterious sinking of the American battleship Maine in Havana harbor, political pressures from the Democratic Party pushed the government of President William McKinley, a Republican, into a war McKinley had wished to avoid. Compromise proved impossible, resulting in an ultimatum sent to Madrid demanding it surrender control of Cuba immediately, which was not accepted. First Madrid, then Washington, formally declared war.

Australian History

1898 (Age 19)

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.

Birth of a son
#1

15 October 1899 (Age 21)

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

son - Francis Alexander "Frank" Potts

Australian History

1899 (Age 20)

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

Katharine Marie Brooke - View family
3 September 1900 (Age 22)

Alexandria, Virginia, USA

Australian History

1900 (Age 21)

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

Death of a paternal grandmother

29 May 1901 (Age 23)

14 Kelsey Street, New Britain, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

paternal grandmother - Elizabeth Potts

Australian History

1901 (Age 22)

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 23)

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 24)

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 25)

Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital

Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government

Death of a paternal grandfather

22 March 1906 (Age 27)

14 Kelsey Street, New Britain, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

paternal grandfather - William Lewis Potts

Australian History

1906 (Age 27)

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea

Australian History

1908 (Age 29)

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 30)

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

Death of a maternal grandmother

1910 (Age 31)

maternal grandmother - Lucy Ferree

Census

15 April 1910 (Age 32)

Washington, District Of Columbia, USA

Shared note: 1910 USA Census transcript - Robert Henry Potts - Household

Name	Relation	Sex	Race	Age	MC	YrsM	ChB	ChL	BP	FBP	MBP
Robert Henry Potts	Head	M	W	32	M	9	-	-	CT	MA	CT
Katharine Marie Potts	wife	F	W	30	M	9	1	1	DC	-	-
Francis Alexander Potts	son	M	W	10	S	-	-	-	DC	CT	DC

Australian History

1910 (Age 31)

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

Australian History

1911 (Age 32)

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 33)

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 (Age 34)

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 34)

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

Australian History

1914 (Age 35)

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.

Marriage of a brother

Frank Dickinson Potts - View family
1915 (estimated) (Age 36)

younger brother - Frank Dickinson Potts

sister-in-law - Ellen Josephine Carlson

Australian History

1915 (Age 36)

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

Australian History

1916 (Age 37)

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 (Age 38)

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.

Australian History

1918 (Age 39)

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.

Australian History

1919 (Age 40)

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.

Census

1 January 1920 (Age 41)

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Australian History

1920 (Age 41)

Note: The airline Qantas is founded

Australian History

1921 (Age 42)

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

Australian History

1922 (Age 43)

Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney

Death

15 February 1922 (Age 43)

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Burial

Arlington, Arlington, Virginia, USA

Address:

(Section 17 Site 20018, Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington Co., VA)

Cemetery: Arlington National Cemetery

Note: Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia is a military cemetery in the United States, established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the estate of the family of Robert E. Lee's wife Mary Anna (Custis) Lee, a descendant of Martha Washington. The cemetery is situated directly across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. and near The Pentagon. It is served by the Arlington Cemetery station on the Blue Line of the Washington Metro system.

Robert Henry Potts Grave

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father	Robert Elliott Potts Birth 12 January 1853 31 31 Sheffield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA Death 29 November 1929 (Age 76) East Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA Loading...
4 years mother	Julia M. Dickinson Birth 4 June 1857 31 34 New Britain, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Death 13 September 1885 (Age 28) East Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA Loading...
	Marriage: 1879
4 months #1 younger brother	William L. Potts Birth 17 May 1879 26 21 Berlin, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Death 29 December 1895 (Age 16) Age: 17 East Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA Loading...
-13 months #2 himself	Robert Henry Potts Birth 8 April 1878 25 20 Connecticut, USA Death 15 February 1922 (Age 43) Washington, District of Columbia, USA Loading...
6 years #3 younger brother	Frank Dickinson Potts Birth 24 September 1883 30 26 Middlefield, Connecticut, USA Death 17 April 1953 (Age 69) Hartford, Connecticut, USA Loading...

Father’s family with Ida Shaw - View family

father	Robert Elliott Potts Birth 12 January 1853 31 31 Sheffield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA Death 29 November 1929 (Age 76) East Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA Loading...
1 year step-mother	Ida Shaw Birth 1854 Maryland, USA Death 6 October 1899 (Age 45) Washington, District of Columbia, USA Loading...
	Marriage: 19 March 1894 — District of Columbia, USA

Father’s family with Lillian E Aichler - View family

father	Robert Elliott Potts Birth 12 January 1853 31 31 Sheffield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA Death 29 November 1929 (Age 76) East Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA Loading...
16 years step-mother	Lillian E Aichler Birth 10 December 1868 33 23 Connecticut, USA Death 18 November 1917 (Age 48) Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Loading...
	Marriage: December 1887 (estimated) — Connecticut, USA
8 months #1 half-sister	Charlotte "Lottie" Potts Birth August 1888 35 19 Connecticut, USA Death 1965 (Age 76) Loading...

Family with Katharine Marie Brooke - View family

himself	Robert Henry Potts Birth 8 April 1878 25 20 Connecticut, USA Death 15 February 1922 (Age 43) Washington, District of Columbia, USA Loading...
9 months wife	Katharine Marie Brooke Birth 1879 31 24 Washington, District of Columbia, USA Death 27 January 1969 (Age 90) Loading...
	Marriage: 3 September 1900 — Alexandria, Virginia, USA
-11 months #1 son	Francis Alexander "Frank" Potts Birth 15 October 1899 21 20 Washington, District of Columbia, USA Death 5 August 1956 (Age 56) Washington, District of Columbia, USA Loading...

Robert Henry Potts has 3 first cousins recorded

Father's family (3)

Parents Nelson Alexander Crane + Mary Stark Potts

1 Lewis N Crane 1869–1949

2 Lillian Crane 1876–? Adopted

Parents Elwood Potts + Lydia C. Sheffer

1 Mary L. Potts 1878–1923

Mother's family (0)

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Australian History

First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.

Australian History

The first congress of trade unions is held.

Census

1880 USA Census transcript - Robert Elliott Potts - Household

Name	Sex	Age	Relation	MC	YrsM	Occupation	BP	FBP	MBP
Robert E Potts	M	27	Head	M	<1	Meat Market	MA	NY	NY
Julia M. Potts	F	22	wife	M	<1		CT	-	-
Robert H Potts	M	2	son	S	-		CT	MA	CT
William L. Potts	M	1	son	S	-		CT	MA	CT

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.

Military

The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States. It ended with the Americans defeating the Spaniards. Revolts against Spanish rule had been endemic for decades in Cuba and were closely watched by Americans; there had been war scares before, as in the Virginius Affair in 1873. By 1897–98, American public opinion grew angrier at reports of Spanish atrocities. After the mysterious sinking of the American battleship Maine in Havana harbor, political pressures from the Democratic Party pushed the government of President William McKinley, a Republican, into a war McKinley had wished to avoid. Compromise proved impossible, resulting in an ultimatum sent to Madrid demanding it surrender control of Cuba immediately, which was not accepted. First Madrid, then Washington, formally declared war.

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

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.

Census

1910 USA Census transcript - Robert Henry Potts - Household

Name	Relation	Sex	Race	Age	MC	YrsM	ChB	ChL	BP	FBP	MBP
Robert Henry Potts	Head	M	W	32	M	9	-	-	CT	MA	CT
Katharine Marie Potts	wife	F	W	30	M	9	1	1	DC	-	-
Francis Alexander Potts	son	M	W	10	S	-	-	-	DC	CT	DC

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.

Census

Private

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

Burial

Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia is a military cemetery in the United States, established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the estate of the family of Robert E. Lee's wife Mary Anna (Custis) Lee, a descendant of Martha Washington. The cemetery is situated directly across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. and near The Pentagon. It is served by the Arlington Cemetery station on the Blue Line of the Washington Metro system.

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Robert Henry PottsAge: 431878–1922

Robert Henry Potts has 3 first cousins recorded

Father's family (3)

Parents Nelson Alexander Crane + Mary Stark Potts

Parents Elwood Potts + Lydia C. Sheffer

Mother's family (0)

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