Brief Life History of Joseph W
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 died in 1910, in New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 65.
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1847
Gold found in Port Phillip.
1867
End of transportation to Western Australia.
1870
British troops withdraw from Australia.
Name Meaning
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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