When Joseph W Edwards was born in 1845, his father, James Charles Edwards, was 30 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 26. He married Elizabeth Aarms in 1871, in Adelong, New South Wales, Australia. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Tumut, New South Wales, Australia in 1891. He died in 1910, in New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 65, and was buried in Rookwood Anglican And General Cemetery, Rookwood, New South Wales, Australia.
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Gold found in Port Phillip.
End of transportation to Western Australia.
British troops withdraw from Australia.
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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