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Edmund Debenham migration to Australia

Information supplied by Lenore Lindbeck nee Debenham September 1995

• Edmund born 1833 in Harlston, Norfolk, England and died 1920 Coffs Harbour NSW aged 83
• Edmund had been at sea with the East India Company, had yellow fever in China and advised by Dr. Robert Debenham to come to Australia.
• Edmund came to Australia approx 1850 aged 17
• Edmund visited the Debenham’s at Forbes and then joining the North Coast Steamship Company as engine man.
• Edmund married Jane Fisher Parkins whose family had come from Mudgee to Armidale and hence to Frederickton whey they had established a store.
• Edmund and his friend Rowe decided to stay in Frederickton and marry the two Parkins sisters.

• There is also a record of Edmund travelling on the steamship “Telegraph” from Brisbane to Sydney 4^th August 1860

https://marinersandships.com.au/1860/08/007tel.htm

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