Mary L. Potts 1878

Mary L. PottsAge: 441878–1923

Name: Mary L. Potts

Given names: Mary L.

Surname: Potts

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Birth

November 1878

Germantown, Columbia, New York, USA

Australian History

1878

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

Australian History

1879 (Age 2 months)

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.

Census

1 June 1880 (Age 19 months)

Germantown, Columbia, New York, USA

Shared note: 1880 USA Census transcript - Samuel S Sheffer - Household

Name	Race	Sex	Age	Relation	MC	YrsM	Occupation	BP	FBP	MBP
Samuel S Sheffer	W	M	36	Head	M	-		-	-	-
H. Penelope Sheffer	W	F	32	wife	M	-		-	-	-
Mary H. Sheffer	W	F	10M	daughter	S	-		-	-	-
Caroline (unknown)	W	F	72	mother	S	-		-	-	-
Henry Sheffer	W	M	37	brother	S	-		-	-	-
Harriet Sheffer	W	F	30	sister	S	-		-	-	-
Elwood Potts	W	M	25	Brother in Law	M	3		MA	NY	NY
Lydia C. Potts	W	F	28	sister	M	3	At Home	NY	-	-
Mary L. Potts	W	F	2	Niece	S	-		NY	NY	NY

Australian History

1880 (Age 14 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.

Australian History

1883 (Age 4)

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway

Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill

Adoption

1885 (estimated) (Age 6)

Family: Andrew Rockefeller + Mary F. …

Adoption: Adopted by both parents

Death of a mother

1 June 1885 (Age 6)

mother - Lydia C. Sheffer

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Census

1 June 1900 (Age 21)

Tivoli, Dutchess, New York, USA

Shared note: 1900 USA Census transcript - Andrew Rockefeller - Household

Name	Relation	Race	Sex	DOB	Age	MC	YrsM	ChB	ChL	BP	FBP	MBP
Andrew Rockefeller	Head	W	M	Oct 1840	59	M	31	-	-	NY	-	-
Mary F. Rockefeller	wife	W	F	Aug 1844	55	M	31	3	3	NY	-	-
Frederick A Rockefeller	son	W	M	Mar 1872	28	S	-	-	-	NY	NY	NY
Mary L. Potts	daughter	W	F	Jul 1878	21	S	-	-	-	NY	NY	NY
William Rockefeller	son	W	M	Jul 1872	27	S	-	-	-	NY	NY	NY

United States Census, 1900

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 22)

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

Marriage

Irving F Fisher - View family
1905 (estimated) (Age 26)

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

Birth of a son
#1

1907 (estimated) (Age 28)

New York, USA

son - Wilson I. Fisher

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.

Census

15 April 1910 (Age 31)

Germantown, Columbia, New York, USA

Shared note: 1910 USA Census transcript - Irving F Fisher - Household

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M5MQ-N27

Name	Relation	Sex	Age	MC	YrsM	ChB	ChL	BP	FBP	MBP
Irving F Fisher	Head	M	33	S	-	-	-	NY	-	-
Mary L. Fisher	wife	F	31	S	-	1	1	NY	NY	NY
Wilson I. Fisher	son	M	3	S	-	-	-	NY	NY	NY
Andrew Rockefeller	Grand-Father	M	71	M	41	-	-	NY	NY	NY

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.

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)

Columbia, New York, USA

Shared note: 1920 USA Census transcript - Irving F Fisher - Household

Name	Relation	Sex	Age	MC	BP	FBP	MBP
Urving Fisher	Head	M	43	S	NY	-	-
Mary Fisher	wife	F	39	S	NY	NY	NY
Wilson Fisher	son	M	63	S	NY	NY	NY

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

Australian History

1923 (on the date of death)

Note: Vegemite is first produced

Death

1923 (Age 44)

Germantown, Columbia, New York, USA

Note: Not found in 1930 Census with Irvin and Wilson. Irvin listed as Widow.

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Family with parents - View family

father	Elwood Potts Birth 12 January 1855 33 33 Sheffield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA Death yes Loading...
-3 years mother	Lydia C. Sheffer Birth 1852 51 50 New York, USA Death 1 June 1885 (Age 33) Loading...
	Marriage: 1876 (estimated)
3 years #1 herself	Mary L. Potts Birth November 1878 Germantown, Columbia, New York, USA Death 1923 (Age 44) Germantown, Columbia, New York, USA Loading...

Family with adoptive parents - View family

father	Andrew Rockefeller Birth October 1840 New York, USA Death yes Loading...
4 years mother	Mary F. … Birth August 1844 New York, USA Death yes Loading...
	Marriage: 1868 (estimated)
4 years #1 elder brother	Frederick A Rockefeller Birth March 1872 31 27 New York, USA Death yes Loading...
-2 months #2 elder brother	William Rockefeller Birth 1872 31 27 New York, USA Death yes Loading...
7 years #3 herself	Mary L. Potts Birth November 1878 Germantown, Columbia, New York, USA Death 1923 (Age 44) Germantown, Columbia, New York, USA Loading...

Family with Irving F Fisher - View family

husband	Irving F Fisher Birth August 1875 New York, USA Death 1935 (Age 59) Germantown, Columbia, New York, USA Loading...
3 years herself	Mary L. Potts Birth November 1878 Germantown, Columbia, New York, USA Death 1923 (Age 44) Germantown, Columbia, New York, USA Loading...
	Marriage: 1905 (estimated)
2 years #1 son	Wilson I. Fisher Birth 1907 (estimated) 31 28 New York, USA Loading...

Mary L. Potts has 7 first cousins recorded

Father's family (6)

Parents Nelson Alexander Crane + Mary Stark Potts

1 Lewis N Crane 1869–1949

2 Lillian Crane 1876–? Adopted

Parents Robert Elliott Potts + Julia M. Dickinson

1 William L. Potts 1879–1895

2 Robert Henry Potts 1878–1922

3 Frank Dickinson Potts 1883–1953

Parents Robert Elliott Potts + Lillian E Aichler

1 Charlotte "Lottie" Potts 1888–1965

Mother's family (1)

Parents Samuel S Sheffer + H. Penelope …

1 Mary Hoxsie Sheffer 1879–?

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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 - Samuel S Sheffer - Household

Name	Race	Sex	Age	Relation	MC	YrsM	Occupation	BP	FBP	MBP
Samuel S Sheffer	W	M	36	Head	M	-		-	-	-
H. Penelope Sheffer	W	F	32	wife	M	-		-	-	-
Mary H. Sheffer	W	F	10M	daughter	S	-		-	-	-
Caroline (unknown)	W	F	72	mother	S	-		-	-	-
Henry Sheffer	W	M	37	brother	S	-		-	-	-
Harriet Sheffer	W	F	30	sister	S	-		-	-	-
Elwood Potts	W	M	25	Brother in Law	M	3		MA	NY	NY
Lydia C. Potts	W	F	28	sister	M	3	At Home	NY	-	-
Mary L. Potts	W	F	2	Niece	S	-		NY	NY	NY

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.

Census

1900 USA Census transcript - Andrew Rockefeller - Household

Name	Relation	Race	Sex	DOB	Age	MC	YrsM	ChB	ChL	BP	FBP	MBP
Andrew Rockefeller	Head	W	M	Oct 1840	59	M	31	-	-	NY	-	-
Mary F. Rockefeller	wife	W	F	Aug 1844	55	M	31	3	3	NY	-	-
Frederick A Rockefeller	son	W	M	Mar 1872	28	S	-	-	-	NY	NY	NY
Mary L. Potts	daughter	W	F	Jul 1878	21	S	-	-	-	NY	NY	NY
William Rockefeller	son	W	M	Jul 1872	27	S	-	-	-	NY	NY	NY

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 - Irving F Fisher - Household

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M5MQ-N27

Name	Relation	Sex	Age	MC	YrsM	ChB	ChL	BP	FBP	MBP
Irving F Fisher	Head	M	33	S	-	-	-	NY	-	-
Mary L. Fisher	wife	F	31	S	-	1	1	NY	NY	NY
Wilson I. Fisher	son	M	3	S	-	-	-	NY	NY	NY
Andrew Rockefeller	Grand-Father	M	71	M	41	-	-	NY	NY	NY

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

1920 USA Census transcript - Irving F Fisher - Household

Name	Relation	Sex	Age	MC	BP	FBP	MBP
Urving Fisher	Head	M	43	S	NY	-	-
Mary Fisher	wife	F	39	S	NY	NY	NY
Wilson Fisher	son	M	63	S	NY	NY	NY

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

Death

Not found in 1930 Census with Irvin and Wilson.  Irvin listed as Widow.

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Documents

United States Census, 1900

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Mary L. PottsAge: 441878–1923

Mary L. Potts has 7 first cousins recorded

Father's family (6)

Parents Nelson Alexander Crane + Mary Stark Potts

Parents Robert Elliott Potts + Julia M. Dickinson

Parents Robert Elliott Potts + Lillian E Aichler

Mother's family (1)

Parents Samuel S Sheffer + H. Penelope …

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