When Eliza Sarah Edwards was born on 2 September 1853, in New South Wales, Australia, her father, William Edwards, was 24 and her mother, Mathilde Wilhelmine Marie Helene Griese, was 21. She married William Henry Deards on 22 September 1873, in Dungog, New South Wales, Australia. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 20 August 1944, in Mayfield, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 90, and was buried in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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End of transportation to Western Australia.
British troops withdraw from Australia.
Australia and England play the first-ever cricket Test match in Melbourne.
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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