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Dan Edwards of Massachussets and his fiancé, Helen Tocher of California. Dan, his brother, Shawn and his father, Keith are the only "Edwards" of our line remaining in the U.S. or Canada. They are descended from James Wilbraham Edwards. James W. Edwards was the only brother of my great grandmother, Amelia Edwards. Their father, James Edwards died on the voyage to America in 1863. |
Submitted by Maureen McGee <mcgeecga-at-telus.net>
John Wilbraham Edwards (JWE)
John Wilbraham Edwards was born March 17, 1830 at Chatham, Kent, England and travelled with his parents, John Alexander Edwards and Anne Parker, to Australia as an infant. In 1838, he began his education as the first pupil of the Reverend William Sowerby, a Church of England Clergyman and first Vicar of Goulburn who arrived in the Colony in 1837.
On October 30, 1840, he returned to England for his education on the ship, John Renwick, arriving on April 5, 1841. Here he stayed with his mother’s older brother, Henry Parker, his guardian in England, whom he viewed as "one of the best men I ever knew". As a boy, he visited the Holy Trinity Church of Hull where he viewed many times a large marble tablet to the memory of his grandfather, John Cowham Parker and the Sculcoates church where he saw the tablet erected to the memory of his grandmother, Ann Goodhand on the north side of the chancel.
He returned "to the Colony" in December 1849 and married Louisa Catharine (1843-1909), eldest daughter of Edward Montague Battye, formerly Captain in the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers at Bathurst on March 19, 1862.
Various documents refer to him as a surveyor, a squatter, and a grazier. He lived at Yass where his children Wilbraham Tollemache (1863), Laura Kate (1864), Henry Montague (1866), Amy Louisa (March 12, 1868 – the day Prince Alfred was shot in Sydney), and Ethel Anne (1869) were born. His last child, Kate Louise, was born near Albury on March 8, 1874.
In 1882, he acquired the Bobundara property where he was living in 1887 when he wrote his "Family History". He states, "The property is some 20 miles from Cooma and is noted for being excellent sheep country."
John Wilbraham Edwards died at Bobundarah on July 6, 1891 at the age of 62.
His family history, based on research done in England by his brother, Henry Tollemache Edwards, and various other sources, can be found at the National Library of Australia in Canberra. (MS2957, Edwards, Henry Tollemache). This family history confirmed my research and added additional information.
Maureen McGee
October 2, 2003
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