Captain John Alexander
Edwards (.1803.......1837)
Back to . . . 17th
Foot Leicestershire Regiment
Born :
Sept 5th, 1803
Where Born : Fort "St.
John", Lower Canada
Occupation : Soldier
Date Arrived :
19th December 1830
.
Ship Arrived on : " Burrell "
Rank on Discharge : Captain
Regimental # : C.07
Date of Enlistment :
Where Enlisted :He
passed through the Military College, Sandhurst,
Date of Discharge
Where Discharged : Sydney 10th October 1833
Died : 8th
May 1837
Where Died /
Buried :
With Ann and two infant
daughters, Harriet and Bessie, in the Church of England
Cemetery, Gouldburn.
Parents
Names : Brigadier
Wilbraham (William ) Tollemache Edwards (b.1770....d.20th
January 1826.& Elizabeth Burrowes( d. before 1819)
Spouse's Name : Ann Parker
Date Married : March 19,1829
Where
Married :
Sculcoates, Yorkshire
Spouse's Parents : John
Cowham Parker (b......d.) and Ann Goodhand (b.......d.)
Born : Nov
5, 1805
Where Born : Hull, Yorkshire
Occupation : Ann (Parker)
Edwards continued to run the sheep farm purchased by her
husband at Bangalore, nine miles from Goulburn after her
husband's death until she remarried to Captain Ronald
Campbell in 1839.
Date Arrived :
19th December 1830
.
Ship Arrived on : " Burrell "
Died : Sept 13, 1879
Where Died /
Buried :
Descendants
Some Information Supplied by
Maureen McGee memcgeecga@shaw.ca
- Area Settled :
-
- Children :
- 1 . John Wilbraham Edwards b. March 17, 1830, d.
July 6, 1891 Bobundara, N.S.W.married Catherine Louisa
Battye. Her father, Edward Montagu Battye was in
the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusilliers
- 2 . Harriet J. Edwards b. 1832 died young of
whooping cough
3 . Henry Tollemache Edwards b. March 6, 1834, d. Nov 20,
1915, Burnima,Bombala, N.S.W.
History
& Achievements :
- Edwards John Wilbraham, eldest son of the late
Captain John Alexander Edwards of Her Majesty's 17th
- Foot Regiment and grandson of Brigadier Wilbraham
Tollemache Edwards of the same Regiment died at
Bobundarah on 6.7.1891 aged 62 years. Manaro Mercury
11.7.1891.
I have also found this information which I believe
relates to him.Military: Brigadier-General William
Tollmache Edwards - 14th Foot - killed in the assault on
Bhurtpore - 18th January 1826. See memorial below.
- Military: Memorial at
Meerut - "Sacred to the memory of Brigadier-General
W.T. Edwards His Majesty's 14th Regiment, and Captain
H.B. Armstrong of the
same Corps, who in the successful assault on the Fortress
of Bharatpur on
the morning of 8 January 1826, fell on the ramparts in
the gallant discharge
of his duty, General Edwards leading the left column of
the attack. This
tablet is erected by their brother officers."
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(QLD) Australia
- Last revised: January 23, 2004.