When Ellen Mary Edwards was born on 13 May 1871, in Queensland, Australia, her father, Patrick John Edwards, was 33 and her mother, Bridget Dowd, was 37. She married Charles Henry Wilson on 14 December 1890, in Charleville, Queensland, Australia. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 18 February 1949, in her hometown, at the age of 77, and was buried in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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English and Welsh: variant of Edward , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
History: One of the earliest American bearers of this very common English surname was William Edwards, the son of Rev. Richard Edwards, a London clergyman in the age of Elizabeth I, who came to New England c. 1640. His descendant Jonathan (1703–58), of East Windsor, CT, was a prominent Congregational clergyman whose New England theology led to the first Great Awakening, a great religious revival.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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