Edmund Debenham

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

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