Frank Dickinson Potts 1883

Frank Dickinson PottsAge: 691883–1953

Name: Frank Dickinson Potts

Given names: Frank Dickinson

Surname: Potts

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Birth

24 September 1883 30 26

Middlefield, Connecticut, USA

Australian History

1883

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway

Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill

Death of a mother

13 September 1885 (Age 23 months)

East Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA

mother - Julia M. Dickinson

Australian History

1887 (Age 3)

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 4)

Connecticut, USA

father - Robert Elliott Potts

step-mother - Lillian E Aichler

Birth of a half-sister

August 1888 (Age 4)

Connecticut, USA

half-sister - Charlotte "Lottie" Potts

Death of a maternal grandfather

1888 (Age 4)

maternal grandfather - Henry Lyman Dickinson

Australian History

1889 (Age 5)

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 6)

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.

Australian History

1891 (Age 7)

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 8)

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.

Australian History

1893 (Age 9)

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 10)

District of Columbia, USA

father - Robert Elliott Potts

step-mother - Ida Shaw

Australian History

1894 (Age 10)

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 12)

East Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA

elder brother - William L. Potts

Australian History

1895 (Age 11)

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 12)

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

Australian History

1897 (Age 13)

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 14)

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 15)

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 16)

Berlin, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Shared note: 1900 USA Census transcript - Lillian Dickinson - Household

Name	Relation	Sex	DOB	Age	MC	YrsM	ChB	ChL	BP	FBP	MBP
Lillian M Andrews	Head	F	Jul 1853	46	S	-	-	-	-	-	-
Lucy Dickinson	mother	F	Jul 1823	76	S	-	4	1	-	-	-
Frank D Potts	Nephew	M	Sep 1883	16	S	-	-	-	CT	MA	CT

United States Census, 1900 for Frank D Potts

Marriage of a brother

Robert Henry Potts - View family
3 September 1900 (Age 16)

Alexandria, Virginia, USA

elder brother - Robert Henry Potts

sister-in-law - Katharine Marie Brooke

Australian History

1900 (Age 16)

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 17)

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

paternal grandmother - Elizabeth Potts

Australian History

1901 (Age 17)

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 18)

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 19)

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 20)

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 22)

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

paternal grandfather - William Lewis Potts

Australian History

1906 (Age 22)

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea

Australian History

1908 (Age 24)

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 25)

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

Death of a maternal grandmother

1910 (Age 26)

maternal grandmother - Lucy Ferree

Census

15 April 1910 (Age 26) Age: 26

Berlin, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Shared note: 1900 USA Census transcript - Lillian Dickinson - Household

Name	Relation	Sex	DOB	Age	MC	YrsM	ChB	ChL	BP	FBP	MBP
Lillian M Andrews	Head	F	Jul 1853	46	S	-	-	-	-	-	-
Lucy Dickinson	mother	F	Jul 1823	76	S	-	4	1	-	-	-
Frank D Potts	Nephew	M	Sep 1883	16	S	-	-	-	CT	MA	CT

Australian History

1910 (Age 26)

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

Australian History

1911 (Age 27)

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 28)

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 29)

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 29)

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

Australian History

1914 (Age 30)

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

Ellen Josephine Carlson - View family
1915 (estimated) (Age 31)

Frank Dickinson Potts and Ellen Josephine Carlson

Australian History

1915 (Age 31)

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

Birth of a daughter
#1

1916 (Age 32)

Connecticut, USA

daughter - Marion J Potts

Australian History

1916 (Age 32)

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 33)

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 34)

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 35)

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 36)

Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Shared note: 1920 USA Census transcript - Frank Dickinson Potts - Household

Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Name	Relation	Sex	Race	Age	MC	BP	FBP	MBP
Frank Potts	Head	M	W	36	S	CT	MA	CT
Ellen Potts	wife	F	W	37	S	CT	DEU	DEU
Marion Potts	daughter	F	W	3	S	CT	CT	CT

Australian History

1920 (Age 36)

Note: The airline Qantas is founded

Birth of a son
#2

18 August 1921 (Age 37)

Connecticut, USA

son - William H "Bill" Potts

Australian History

1921 (Age 37)

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

Death of a brother

15 February 1922 (Age 38)

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

elder brother - Robert Henry Potts

Australian History

1922 (Age 38)

Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney

Australian History

1923 (Age 39)

Note: Vegemite is first produced

Birth of a daughter
#3

5 January 1924 (Age 40)

Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA

daughter - Dorothy Roberta Potts

Letter

Personal Letter

12 July 1925 (Age 41)

father - Robert Elliott Potts

Letter from Robert E Potts to Son Frank

Note:

July 12 – 1925

Dear Son Frank

Well I told Lottie that I would leave on Friday the 17th can you come after me Friday they got quite hot when I told them that I was going to leave but they are acting a litlle better now about it.  Please look out for any male that comes to East Berlin for me.

I am as ever your loving father.

R.E.P.

Event

12 July 1925 (Age 41)

father - Robert Elliott Potts

Australian History

1926 (Age 42)

Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held

Australian History

1927 (Age 43)

Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital

Australian History

1928 (Age 44)

Note: Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built.

Death of a father

29 November 1929 (Age 46)

East Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA

father - Robert Elliott Potts

Photo

Family Photo

1929 (Age 45)

Frank Dickinson Potts family

Australian History

1929 (Age 45)

Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary

Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia.

Census

1 April 1930 (Age 46)

Berlin, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Shared note: 1930 USA Census transcript - Frank Dickinson Potts - Household

Name	Relation	Sex	Race	Age	MC	AgM	BP	FBP	MBP
Frank Dickinson Potts	Head	M	W	46	S	-	CT	MA	CT
Ellen Josephine Carlson	wife	F	W	47	S	-	CT	DEU	DEU
Marion J Potts	daughter	F	W	13	S	-	CT	CT	CT
William H Potts	son	M	W	8	S	-	CT	CT	CT
Dorothy Roberta Potts	daughter	F	W	6	S	-	CT	CT	CT

Australian History

1930 (Age 46)

Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings

Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup

Australian History

1931 (Age 47)

Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia

Australian History

1932 (Age 48)

Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens

Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister

Australian History

1933 (Age 49)

Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments

Australian History

1936 (Age 52)

Note: The last Thylacine dies

Australian History

1937 (Age 53)

Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins

Australian History

1938 (Age 54)

Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games

Australian History

1939 (Age 55)

Note: (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government

Note: (September) Australia enters the Second World War following the German Invasion of Poland. The 2nd Australian Imperial Force is raised.

Note: The first flight is made by an Australian-made warplane, the Wirraway

Note: Victoria is devastated by the Black Friday bushfires

Australian History

1940 (Age 56)

Note: A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin

Note: Fascist Italy enters war, Royal Australian Navy engages Italian Navy in the early stages of the Battle of the Mediterranean.

Australian History

1941 (Age 57)

Note: 3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa.

Note: Apr-Aug, Australian garrison (Rats of Tobruk) halt advance of Hitler's panzers for the first time during the Siege of Tobruk.

Note: Menzies resigns and John Curtin becomes Prime Minister in the Curtin Government of 1941-45.

Military

United States, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942

1942 (Age 58)

United States, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942

Australian History

1942 (Age 58)

Note: Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese

Note: 1942-43 - Japanese air raids - almost 100 attacks against sites in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland.

Note: The Royal Australian Navy and 6th and 7th Divisions of 2nd AIF are recalled from Mediterranean Theatre to participate in the anticipated Battle of Australia.

Note: 1942-3 - Sparrow Force engages in guerilla campaign in Battle of Timor

Note: Battle of the Coral Sea - United States and Royal Australian Navy halt advance of the Japanese towards Port Moresby (Australian Territory of Papua)

Note: Battle of Kokoda Trail - Australian soldiers halt Japanese march on Port Moresby

Note: Aug-Sep, Australian forces inflict the first defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle of Milne Bay.

Note: Jul-Nov, Australia's 9th Division plays crucial role in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein, which turned the North Africa Campaign in favour of the Allies.

Note: National daylight saving is introduced as a war time measure.

Note: The UK Statute of Westminster is formally adopted by Australia. The Statute formally grants Australia the right to pass laws that conflict with UK laws.

Australian History

1943 (Age 59)

Note: Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary.

Note: 2,815 Australian Pows die constructing Japan's Burma-Thailand Railway

Note: 1943-44 - Australian forces engage Japan in New Guinea, Wau, and the Huon peninsula.

Australian History

1944 (Age 60)

Note: Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW.

Note: Japanese inflict Sandakan Death March on 2,000 Australian and British prisoners of war - only 6 survive. The single worst war crime perpetrated against Australians.

Note: Australian forces battle Japanese garrisons from Borneo to Bougainville.

Note: The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is introduced, providing subsidised medicine to all Australians

Australian History

1945 (Age 61)

Note: the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader.

Note: Australian forces lead Battle of Borneo

Note: (7 May) Nazi Germany surrenders

Note: (July) Prime Minister Curtin dies and is replaced by Ben Chifley and the Chifley Labor Government

Note: (1 August) Japan Surrenders

Note: Australia becomes a founding member of the United Nations

Note: The Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race is held for the first time

Australian History

1946 (Age 62)

Note: Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme

Note: Norman Makin, is voted in as the first President of the United Nations Security Council.

Australian History

1948 (Age 64)

Note: Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly.

Note: Australia becomes a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Australian History

1949 (Age 65)

Note: Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins

Note: All indigenous ex-servicemen and any Indigenous Australians who are eligible to vote in State Elections (NSW, VIC, SA and TAS) are given an unrestricted right to vote in Federal Elections.

Note: The Nationality and Citizenship Act is passed. Rather than being identified as subjects of Britain, the Act established Australian citizenship for people who met eligibility requirements.

Note: Menzies returns to power as leader of the new Liberal Party Menzies Government.

Australian History

1950 (Age 66)

Note: 1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea.

Note: Voters reject a referendum to change the Constitution to allow the Menzies Government to ban the Communist Party

Australian History

1951 (Age 67)

Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand

Australian History

1952 (Age 68)

Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia.

Death

17 April 1953 (Age 69)

Hartford, Connecticut, USA

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Family with parents - 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...
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 elder 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 elder brother	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 himself	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 Ellen Josephine Carlson - View family

himself	Frank Dickinson Potts Birth 24 September 1883 30 26 Middlefield, Connecticut, USA Death 17 April 1953 (Age 69) Hartford, Connecticut, USA Loading...
-14 months wife	Ellen Josephine Carlson Birth 13 July 1882 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA Death 3 May 1969 (Age 86) Cromwell, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA Loading...
	Marriage: 1915 (estimated)
1 year #1 daughter	Marion J Potts Birth 1916 32 33 Connecticut, USA Death 2008 (Age 92) Loading...
6 years #2 son	William H "Bill" Potts Birth 18 August 1921 37 39 Connecticut, USA Death 11 October 1997 (Age 76) Southington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Loading...
2 years #3 daughter	Dorothy Roberta Potts Birth 5 January 1924 40 41 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA Death 16 September 2011 (Age 87) Loading...

Frank Dickinson 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

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 - Lillian Dickinson - Household

Name	Relation	Sex	DOB	Age	MC	YrsM	ChB	ChL	BP	FBP	MBP
Lillian M Andrews	Head	F	Jul 1853	46	S	-	-	-	-	-	-
Lucy Dickinson	mother	F	Jul 1823	76	S	-	4	1	-	-	-
Frank D Potts	Nephew	M	Sep 1883	16	S	-	-	-	CT	MA	CT

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

1900 USA Census transcript - Lillian Dickinson - Household

Name	Relation	Sex	DOB	Age	MC	YrsM	ChB	ChL	BP	FBP	MBP
Lillian M Andrews	Head	F	Jul 1853	46	S	-	-	-	-	-	-
Lucy Dickinson	mother	F	Jul 1823	76	S	-	4	1	-	-	-
Frank D Potts	Nephew	M	Sep 1883	16	S	-	-	-	CT	MA	CT

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 - Frank Dickinson Potts - Household

Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Name	Relation	Sex	Race	Age	MC	BP	FBP	MBP
Frank Potts	Head	M	W	36	S	CT	MA	CT
Ellen Potts	wife	F	W	37	S	CT	DEU	DEU
Marion Potts	daughter	F	W	3	S	CT	CT	CT

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

Australian History

The first Miss Australia contest is held

Australian History

The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital

Australian History

Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built.

Australian History

Western Australia celebrates its centenary

Census

1930 USA Census transcript - Frank Dickinson Potts - Household

Name	Relation	Sex	Race	Age	MC	AgM	BP	FBP	MBP
Frank Dickinson Potts	Head	M	W	46	S	-	CT	MA	CT
Ellen Josephine Carlson	wife	F	W	47	S	-	CT	DEU	DEU
Marion J Potts	daughter	F	W	13	S	-	CT	CT	CT
William H Potts	son	M	W	8	S	-	CT	CT	CT
Dorothy Roberta Potts	daughter	F	W	6	S	-	CT	CT	CT

Australian History

Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings

Australian History

Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia

Australian History

The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens

Australian History

Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments

Australian History

The last Thylacine dies

Australian History

The radio series Dad and Dave begins

Australian History

Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games

Australian History

(April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government

Australian History

A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin

Australian History

3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa.

Australian History

Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese

Australian History

Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary.

Australian History

Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW.

Australian History

the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader.

Australian History

Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme

Australian History

Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly.

Australian History

Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins

Australian History

1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea.

Australian History

Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand

Australian History

First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia.

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Frank Dickinson PottsAge: 691883–1953

Frank Dickinson 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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