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Timeline
1642 First Civil War in England (to 1649)
1649 King Charles I executed
1649-1660 Commonwealth Period - Oliver Cromwell
1651-1652 The second English Civil War
1660 Restoration Period
- Commonwealth registers ended, Parish Registers resumed
1663 Earliest Roman Catholic registers
1665 Great Plague of London
1666 Great Fire of London
- Act of Parliament - burials to be in woollen
1668 British East India Company obtains control of Bombay
1684 Huguenot registers begin in London
1685 Monmouth rebellion and battle of Sedgemoor
- Revocation of the Edict of Nantes - drove thousands of Protestants (Huguenots) from France
1688 Nov: James II abdicates - William of Orange lands at Torbay on 5 Nov - William III and Mary II, daughter of James II, jointly take the throne
1689 Deposed James II flees to Ireland - defeated at the Battle of the Boyne (1 Jul 1690)
1696 Act of Parliament establishes Workhouses
1698 Duties (taxes) on entries in parish registers - repealed after five years
1700 population in England and Scotland approx 7.5 million
1702 Anne Stuart becomes Queen
1707 Union with Scotland
1708 First Jacobite rising in Scotland
1710 Tax on Apprentice Indentures
1712 Last trial for witchcraft in England (Jane Wenham)
1714 Queen Anne Stuart dies - George I Hanover becomes king (1714-1727)
1715 Jacobite rebellion in Scotland, under the Old Pretender
1719 Third abortive Jacobite rising
1721 Robert Walpole (Whig) becomes first Prime Minister (to 1742)
1723 The Workhouse Act or Test - to get relief, a poor person has to enter Workhouse
1727 George I dies - George II Hanover becomes king
1729 Methodists begin at Oxford
1730 Irish famine
1732 Earliest Cavalry and Infantry Muster Rolls
1733 Law forbidding the use of Latin in parish registers generally obeyed - some continued in Latin for a few years
1738 Earliest Calvinistic Methodist registers
1739 Dick Turpin, highwayman, hanged at York
1741 Benjamin Ingham founded the Moravian Methodists or Inghamites - Earliest Moravian registers
1743 Battle of Dettingen - last time a British sovereign (George II) led troops in battle
1745 Jacobite rebellion in Scotland ('The Forty-five')
1746 Battle of Culloden - last battle fought in Britain
1748-1756 Countess of Huntington's (Calvinistic) Methodist Connexion founded
1751 decision to adopt Gregorian Calendar in 1752: so 1752 started on 1 January and 1751 was a short year.
1752 - 3 Sep: Julian Calendar dropped and Gregorian Calendar adopted in England and Scotland, making this 14 Sep
1753 Earliest Inghamite registers
1754 Hardwicke Act (1753): Banns to be called, and Printed Marriage Register forms to be used - Quakers & Jews exempt
- First printed Annual Army Lists
1755 Publication of Dictionary of the English Language by Dr Samuel Johnson
1756 The Seven Years War with France (Pitt's trade war) begins
1760 George II dies - George III Hanover, his grandson, becomes king
- Beginning of intense Inclosure Acts in England
1762 Earliest Unitarian registers
1764 Lloyd's Register of shipping first prepared
- Practice of numbering houses introduced to London
1765 Stamp Act passed - imposed a tax on publications and legal documents in the American colonies
1769 Capt James Cook maps the coast of New Zealand
1770 Capt James Cook lands in Australia (Botany Bay) formally claims Australia for Britain
1772 First Navy Lists published
1775 Battle of Lexington: first action in American War of Independence (1775-1783)
1776 American Declaration of Independence
- Somerset House in London becomes the repository of records of population
1780 The Gordon Riots
- Earliest Wesleyan registers
1781 Lord Cornwallis's army surrenders to George Washington; ends the American War of Independence
1783 Duty payable on Parish Register entries (3d per entry - repealed 1794) - led to a fall in entries
1788 First convicts (and free settlers) arrive in New South Wales - the 'First Fleet'
1789 14 Jul: The French Revolution begins - storming of the Bastille
1791 Establishment of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain
1793 England declares war on France (1793-1802)
- Execution of Louis XVI - Reign of Terror starts in France
1795 Speenhamland Act proclaims that the Parish is responsible for bringing up the labourer's wage to subsistence level
1798 The Irish Rebellion; 100,000 peasants revolt; approximately 25,000 die - Irish Parliament abolished
- Battle of the Nile (won by Nelson)
1799 'Combination Laws' in Britain against political associations and combinations
1800 Parliamentary union of Great Britain and Ireland
- Earliest Bible Christian registers
1801 First census puts the population of England and Wales at 9,168,000 - population of Britain nearly 11 million (75% rural)
1802 Treaty of Amiens signed by Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands
1803 Peace of Amiens ends on 12 May - resumption of war with France - The Napoleonic Wars (1803-18l5)
1805 - 21 Oct: Nelson's victory at Trafalgar
1806 Earliest Primitive Methodist registers
1807 Parliament passes Act prohibiting slavery and the importation of slaves from 1808 - but does not prohibit colonial slavery
1808 Peninsular War (1808-1814)
- Beginning of 'Luddite' troubles in England
1810 Bible Christians denomination formed by schism in Wesleyan Methodists
1811 Prince of Wales (future George IV) made Regent after George III deemed insane
1812 Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval, assassinated
- Napoleon retreats from Moscow
1813 Rose's Act (1812) established a printed format for baptism & burial registers
1814 Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba
1815 - 1 Mar: Napoleon escapes Elba; arrives in France
- 18 Jun: The Battle of Waterloo: Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena
1819 Peterloo Massacre at Manchester
1820 Accession of George IV, previously Prince Regent
1821 Napoleon Bonaparte dies on St Helena
- Populations: France 30.4M, German States 26M, Britain 20.8M, Italian States 18M, Austria 12M, the USA 9.6M
1824 Pitt's Combination Acts repealed (Trades Unions allowed)
1829 Earliest Irvingite registers
1830 George IV dies - his brother, William IV, accedes to the throne
- Agricultural 'Swing' Riots in southern England, repressed with many transportations
1833 Factory Act forbids employment of children below age of 9
1834 Slavery abolished in British possessions
- Poor Law amendment, tightening up relief
- Tolpuddle Martyrs transported (to Australia) for Trades Union activities
1835 Earliest Universalist registers
1836 First Potato famine in Ireland
1837 William IV dies - accession of Queen Victoria (to 1901)
- 1 Jul: Compulsory registration of Births, Marriages & Deaths in England & Wales - Registration Districts were formed
1840 Last convicts landed in NSW (some say 1842 or 1849)
1841 6 Jun: First full census in Britain in which all names were recorded
- Population: Britain 18.5M, USA 17M, Ireland 8M
1842 Civil Registration in Channel Islands started
- Illustrated London News published
1844 Outdoor Relief Prohibition Order - parish relief received only in a workhouse
1848 General revolutionary movement throughout the Continent ('Year of Revolution')
- Marx and Engels The Communist Manifesto
1851 - 30 Mar: Second full British Census
1852 Tasmania ceases to be a convict settlement
1854 Allied armies land in Crimea
1855 Registration of births, marriages & deaths made compulsory in Scotland
1856 End of Crimean War
1857 London postal districts introduced
1857-8 Indian Mutiny
1858 Proving of Wills taken out of ecclesiastical jurisdiction
1861 American Civil War begins
- 7 Apr: Third full British Census
- Prince Albert dies
- Populations: Russia 76M, USA 32M, Italy 25M, Britain 23M
1864 Civil Registration in Ireland starts
- Civil Registration of marriages in Isle of Man starts
1865 End of American Civil War - slavery abolished in USA
1867 Dominion of Canada founded
1868 Last British election for which Poll Books available
- Last convicts landed in (Western) Australia
1871 - 2 Apr: Fourth full British census
- Trades Unions legalised in Britain, but picketing made illegal
- Commissions in British armed forces no longer to be purchased
1872 Secret Ballot introduced in Britain (no further Poll Books produced)
- Penalties introduced for failing to register births, marriages & deaths (Eng. & Wales)
1874 Disraeli and the Tories come to power in Britain - pass 11 major Acts of social reform in next 2 years
- First Trades Union MP is elected
- Factory Act introduces 56-hour week
1876 Victoria proclaimed Empress of India
1879 Zulu war
1880 Greenwich Mean Time adopted throughout UK
1881 - 3 Apr: Fifth full British Census
- First Boer War - Transvaal independence recognised
- Flogging abolished in Army and Royal Navy
1883 Married Women's Property Act of 1882 becomes law
1887 Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee
1891 5 Apr: Sixth full British Census
1893 Keir Hardy founds Independent Labour Party
1897 Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
1899-1902 Second Boer War
1900 Relief of Ladysmith
- Relief of Mafeking
1901 Commonwealth of Australia founded
- Queen Victoria dies - Edward VII king
- 31 Mar: Seventh full British Census
1902 Second Boer War ends
1906 Labour Party formed
1907 New Zealand becomes a Dominion
1909 Old Age Pensions Act came into force
1910 Union of South Africa formed - Botha first Prime Minister
- Edward VII dies - George V king
1911 - 2 Apr Census: Pop. Eng.&Wales 36M, Scot. 4.6M, North.Ire. 1.25M
1912 The Titanic sinks on maiden voyage - loss of 1,513 lives
- Captain Scott's last expedition - he and his team die on way back from the south pole
1913 Suffragette demonstrations in London
1914 -1918 First World War (The Great War)
1914 - 28 Jun: Archduke Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo
- 4 Aug: Britain declares war on Germany
- Oct-Nov: Battle of Ypres - beginning of trench warfare on western front
- First Zeppelin air raid on England
1915 - Apr-May: Second Battle of Ypres - poison gas used for first time
- 25 Apr: Gallipoli campaign starts
- 7 May: RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off coast of Ireland - 1,198 died
- Coalition Government formed in Britain under Asquith
1916 - Feb-Dec: Battle of Verdun - appalling losses on both sides
- 24 Apr: Easter Rising in Ireland
- 31 May-1 Jun: Battle of Jutland - only major naval battle between the British and German fleets
- 1 Jul: Battle of the Somme starts - first use of tanks by Britain
- Compulsory military service introduced in Britain
1917 - February revolution in Russia; Tsar Nicholas abdicates
- USA declares war on Germany
- 16 Apr: Lenin returns to Russia after exile
- Jul-Nov: Battle of Passchendaele
- October Revolution in Russia - Bolsheviks overthrow provisional government; Lenin becomes Chief Commissar
1918 - Jul-Aug: Second Battle of the Marne: last major German offensive
- 11 Nov: Armistice signed
- War of Independence in Ireland
- World-wide 'flu epidemic
1919 Treaty of Versailles
1920 First meeting of the League of Nations
1921 - 19 Jun: Census: Pop. Eng. & Wales 37.9M, Scot. 4.9M, North. Ire. 1.25M
- Irish Free State and Northern Ireland formed
1922 Fall of Lloyd-George coalition
- Law of Property Act - the manorial system effectively ended
1923 Mussolini becomes dictator of Italy
- Canberra made Federal Capital of Australia
1924 First Labour government, headed by Ramsay MacDonald
- Death of Lenin; succeeded by Stalin
1925 Adolf Hitler writes Mein Kampf
1926 - 26 Apr: General Strike begins, till 12 May (mine workers for 6 months more)
- Adoption of children is legalised in Britain
1928 Women over 21 get vote in Britain - same qualification for both sexes
1929 Abolition of Poor Law system in Britain
- Minimum age for a marriage in Britain (which had been 14 for a boy and 12 for a girl) now 16 for both sexes, with parental consent (or a licence) needed for anyone under 21
1930 First Nazis elected to the German Reichstag
- R101 airship disaster - British abandons airship construction
1931 - 26 Apr Census: Pop. Eng.&Wales 40M, Scot. 4.8M, North.Ire. 1.24M (but details destroyed by fire during WW2)
- Statute of Westminster: British Dominions become independent sovereign states
1933 Hitler becomes German Chancellor
1934 Hitler becomes Fuehrer of Germany
- Mao Tse-tung's 'Long March' starts in China
1935 Italy invades Abyssinia
1936 - 20 Jan: George V dies; Edward VIII king
- 18 Jul: Spanish Civil War starts
- 5 Dec: Edward VIII abdicates Duke of York becomes George VI
1937 Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister in Britain
- German planes bomb Guernica in Spain
- Japanese forces invade China
1938 Germany invades and annexes Austria
- Chamberlain visits Hitler in Munich - promises 'peace in our time'
1939 Germany annexes Czechoslovakia
- 1 Sep: Germany invades Poland
- 3 Sep: Britain and France declare war on Germany at 5pm
- 6 Sep: First air-raid on Britain
- 11 Sep: British Expeditionary Force sent to France
- 14 Oct: HMS Royal Oak sunk in Scapa Flow with loss of 810 lives
1940 - 11 May: National Government formed under Churchill
- 24 May: Germany invades France
- 27 May-4 Jun: Evacuation of British Army at Dunkirk
- 25 Jun: Fall of France
- 7 Sep: Germany launches bombing blitz on Britain
- 15 Sep: Battle of Britain in the air ends with British victory
- Trotsky assassinated on Stalin's orders
1941 No census - total British population estimated at 48.2M
- 22 June: Germany invades Russia
- 7 Dec: Japan attacks US fleet at Pearl Harbour
- Britain introduces severe rationing
1942 - 30 May: Over 1,000 bombers raid Cologne
- 4 Jun: Battle of Midway
- 19 Aug: Abortive raid on Dieppe, largely by Canadian troops
- 6 Sep: Germans defeated at Stalingrad
- 23 Oct-4 Nov: Battle of El Alamein - Montgomery defeats Rommel
1943 - May: 'Dam Buster' raids on Ruhr dams by RAF
- 24 Jul: Allies invade Italy - Benito Mussolini resigns as Italian Dictator
1944 - 4 Jun: Allies enter Rome
- 6 Jun: D-Day invasion of Normandy
-12 Jun: First V1 flying bombs hit London
- 8 Sep: First V2 rocket bombs hit London
- 11 Sep: Allies enter Germany
- 16 Dec: Battle of the Bulge: German counter-offensive
1945 Yalta Conference between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin
- 25 Apr: Berlin surrounded by Russian troops
- 30 Apr: Hitler commits suicide
- 8 May: Victory in Europe Day
- 6 Aug: Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
- 9 Aug: Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
- 15 Aug: Victory in Japan Day
- 2 Sep: Japanese surrender
1946 First session of new United Nations Organisation
1947 India gains independence: sub-continent partitioned to form India and Pakistan
1948 Gandhi assassinated
- Apartheid starts in South Africa
- Berlin airlift starts
- National Health Service begins in Britain
1949 Russians lift the Berlin blockade
- 1950 Points rationing ends in Britain
- Petrol rationing ends in Britain
- Korean War starts (to 27 Jul 1953)
- Soap rationing ends in Britain
1951 Census: Pop. Eng.& Wales 43.7M, Scot. 5M. North.Ire. 1.37M
1952 George VI dies
- End of tea rationing in Britain
1953 Sweet rationing ends in Britain
- Everest conquered by Hillary and Tensing
- Coronation of Elizabeth II
- Sugar rationing ends in Britain (after nearly 14 years)
- Death of Stalin: Malenkov becomes Premier of USSR
- End of the Korean War
1954 Food rationing officially ends in Britain
1956 Britain and France invade Suez
1957 Sputnik I launched by Soviet Union - first artificial satellite
1959 Postcodes introduced in Britain
1960 Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa
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Death Registrations: GANDER

New South Wales, Australia - from 1852 to 1979 inclusive

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Notes:

Assume GANDER is the surname listed below unless otherwise stated. If there is a 'Y' in the 'FT?' column it means I have further information.

Death Registrations - NSW

Death Registrations for GANDER and GANDAR - NSW
Index Year FT? Given Names Father's Name(s) Mother's Name(s) Notes / District Registration No.
 
1852   John     Age 40 1852/0 (V1852499 38B)
1855   William     Infant 1855/0 (V18551798 43A)
1868 Y James Henry Tabitha Bathurst 1868/2928
1868 Y Sarah A Joseph Ellen Rylstone 1868/6482
1869 Y Elizabeth Charles   Died Orange 1869/5242
1880   Jane David   Died Redfern 1880/4246
1881 Y Sabina (Sarah) Charles Mary A Orange 1881/10257
1882 Y Henry C(harles) George Lydia Orange 1882/11540
1884 Y Joseph James Julia Bourke 1884/7073
1886 Y Percival G George Lydia Orange 1886/13202
1887   Oswald R   Elizabeth Orange 1887/12242
1892 Y Charles James Unknown Redfern 1892/11464
1897 Y Catherine Patrick Unknown Rockley 1897/6243
1897 Y Henry George Lydia Sydney 1897/7339
1897 Y Joseph Joseph Eleanor St.Marys 1897/2730
1897 Y Neva George Lydia Sydney 1897/7340
1900   James James   Blayney 1900/8315
1902 Y James T(homas) Thomas Julia Bathurst 1902/718
1904   George     Sth African Contingent 1904/4327
1907 Y Edith M R Henry E(dward) Alice L(ydia) Lismore 1907/14157
1907 Y Lionel C S George A(ugustus) Louisa E(lizabeth) Orange 1907/10441
1912   James James   Granville 1912/1667
1914 Y Thelma G Edward J(ames) Grace E(lizabeth) Orange 1914/1940
1915   Francis F Francis F Elizabeth Granville 1915/15375
1916 Y Male Infant Charles Victoria M(aude) Orange 1916/19340
1917 Y Charles Charles   Orange 1917/15867
1919 Y Mary J(ane) John Margaret Orange 1919/2855
1921 Y William T(homas) Charles Jane Redfern 1921/16097
1924   May Charles Julia Redfern 1924/10793
1924 Y Ivy M Edward J(ames) Grace E(lizabeth) Orange 1924/19792
1926 Y Arthur J(ohn) Joseph Rachel Lidcombe 1926/13362
1926 Y Jane Edward J(ames) Grace E(lizabeth) Orange 1926/9953
1926 Y Mary Edward J(ames) Grace E(lizabeth) Orange 1926/9954
1929 Y Daisy Frederick Daisy M Marricksville 1929/15279
1929 Y Rachael James Mary Parramatta 1929/10642
1931 Y Sarah A Robert Sarah Canterbury 1931/7003
1933 Y Coral J M Joseph H(erbert) Collette M B Canterbury 1933/11495
1933   Nellie Thomas Sarah J Canterbury 1933/17857
1934 Y Andrew J L ('Henry James Louis'?) Joseph Rachael Parramatta 1934/17512
1935 Y George A GANDER (also GANDAR) Charles Jane Marrickville 1935/8038
1935   William R GANDAR Henry Emily Manly 1935/25414
1937 Y Joseph Alfred Joseph Rachel Chatswood 1937/14629
1937 Y William Charles Charles Mary Newtown 1937/17241
1937   Zelma Ann Horace Avis West Maitland 1937/11658
1939 Y Lydia GANDER (also GANDAR) Jacob Mary Ann Petersham 1939/8165
1941 Y Henry Edward Joseph Lewis Rachel Lismore 1941/25638
1942 Y George Harold George Augustus Lydia Newtown 1942/11528
1943   Peter Leslie Frederick Thomas Dorothy Jean Orange 1943/29655
1943 Y Peter William Hedley William (Keith) Mary Ann Newcastle 1943/21070
1944 Y William Charles William Mary Jane Canterbury 1944/15685
1947 Y Edward James William Thomas Mary Jane Orange 1543/1947
1948 Y Ernest Leslie Charles Mary Ann Liverpool    23203/1948
1949 Y John Charles Cecil Garnett Charles Barbara Jean Orange  28590/1949
1950   Thomas Harry Catherine Randwick 21561/1950
1951 Y Sarah Elizabeth William Annie Marrickville 32632/1951
1952 Y Stanley Joseph Rachel Parramatta 2207/1952
1953 Y George Augustus Charles Mary Ann Liverpool 25998/1953
1954 Y Arthur Albert Edward James Grace Elizabeth Orange 12901/1954
1954 Y Joseph Herbert James Emma Newtown 28976/1954
1956 Y Joseph Vincent   52 years, North Sydney 3408/1956
1957 Y Ernest Edward Henry Edward Alice Lydia Lismore   6499/1957
1957 Y Mary Ellen John Agnes Mary Newtown 20680/1957
1958 Y Emily Alice Thomas Jane Condoboli  33193/1958
1958   Emma May     96 years, Sacred Heart Hospital Newtown 29075/1958
1959 Y Francis Bede Henry Alfred G(eorge B) Amy Susannah Chatswood 21007/1959
1959 Y Lucy Ann Day Christopher Elizabeth Camden 27763/1959
1959 Y Walter Leslie Joseph Rachel Bankstow  24913/1959
1960 Y Alice Lydia     Died 30 Jun 60. Petersham 82 years Marrickville 21865/1960
1960 Y Florence Violet Charles Eliza Burwood  21018/1960
1962   Annie Baurie Thomas Matilda Orange 15501/1962
1962   Clara Elizabeth  James Henry  Sarah Balmain 21671/1962
1962 Y Henry Arthur Henry Alfred (George B) Amy Susannah Sydney   8493/1962
1962   Lorraine Joanne Kenneth Joseph Iris Noelene Bankstow   33338/1962
1963 Y Hedley Rupert L(ionel) Charles Mary Ellen (Mary Ann?) Burwood 26133/1963
1964 Y Albert John William (Thomas) (Mary) Jane Camden 20809/1964
1964 Y Amy Suzanna Arthur Emmerson Elizabeth St Leonard's   30698/1964
1964 Y Henry Arthur Charles Mary Jane Burwood    32552/1964
1964 Y Louisa Elizabeth William James Eliza Charlotte Bankstow   36888/1964
1965 Y Henry Alfred G(eorge B) William (Thomas) (Mary) Jane St Leonard's   37771/1965
1965   Iris Noelene Francis Noel Doris Patricia Bankstow   37199/1965
1965 Y Victoria Maude Charles Tilly Orange 32646/1965
1966 Y Ethel May   Mary Ellen Burwood 10559/1966
1968   Beverley Anne Leslie Lionel Elaine Parramatta   42557/1968
1968   Allan Leslie Leslie Lionel Ellen Mavis Sutherland   12485/1968
1969 Y Andrew Thomas Maxwell Thomas Cheryl Joy Moree   23448/1969
1969 Y Henry Sylvester James Emma Kogarah   29772/1969
1969   Stanley Herbert Sidney Richard Agnes Belmont   26196/1969
1970 Y Grace Elizabeth David Elizabeth Orange   25624/1970
1971 Y Malcolm Mawson Joseph Alfred Emily Alice Condobolin   64658/1971
1972   Annie Thomas Annie Bankstown   58015/1972
1972 Y Charles Maxwell Ernest Leslie Susan Bulli   62747/1972
1972 Y Margaret Josephine Patrick Agnes Bankstown   43613/1972
1972   Rachel Ann Derek Michelle Margaret Newcastle   81552/1972
1973   Elsie Maud James Henry Phoebe Burwood   59032/1973
1974   Frederick William Jane   50259/1974
1975   Gladys May Alfred     18155/1975
1975 Y Sydney Harley (Russell) George Lydia   21853/1975
1976 Y Albert Henry Thomas Julia   14903/1976
1976   Arthur John Sidney Agnes   6191/1976
1976   Elvie Jean Alfred Charles Nellie   26486/1976
1976 Y Grace Edna Albert John Lucy Ann   26477/1976
1977   Roger Charles Charles Frederick Elvie Jean   4768/1977
1977 Y William Charles William Charles Sarah Ann   17117/1977
1978 Y Marie Hazel Alexander Robert Henry Mabel Sarah Elizabeth   2574/1978
1978   William James Joseph Emma   29207/1978
1979 Y Charles Cecil Edward James Grace Elizabeth Moree 100487/1980