When Ada Alice Brigginshaw was born on 2 June 1882, in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, her father, Cornelius Weedon Brigginshaw, was 32 and her mother, Jane Windmill, was 33. She married William Edward Downes on 22 July 1903, in Queensland, Australia. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 24 August 1976, in Queensland, Australia, at the age of 94, and was buried in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.
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Canberra is founded and designated as the capital. The Federal Capital Territory is established as an area of two 360 square kilometers in the Yass-Canberra district.
English: see Birkinshaw .
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