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Orphan Number: 1688
Orphan: Lavinie EDMONDS
Mother:JONES, Mary
Father:EDMONDS, Charles
Mother's ship:Woodbridge
Father's ship:
Age when admitted:7yrs
Date admitted:16 Nov 1860
Date discharged:16 Feb 1861
Institution(s):Queens Orphan School
Discharged to: father, free
Remarks: father deserted and in prison
References: SWD26/3, 26/5, 27, 28

This orphan has been claimed by: Bruce Austin

Lavinia Edmonds is my g'grandmother on my fathers side. His mother was lavinia's daughter -Violet May. (Lavinia married a William Andrews -father stephen andrews - convict). Violet May Andrews married Edward Thomas Austin (my g'father) in Sydney in 1910. they had 1 son -Ernest (my father), 4 daughters - Lavinia, Gloria, Hazel and Amy also known as Babsy. Ernest married a Jessie Melita Roy (my mother) whose great,great grandfather (Campbell Roy) was also  a convict in tasmania (transported 1824).

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This orphan has been claimed by: Stephen Burke

Lavinia Edmunds is my Great Great Grandmother on my mother’s side. Lavinia married William Andrews, and her eldest daughter was Mary (May) Andrews. Mary married Fred Wallen and lived in Launceston. My Grandmother, Ivy Lavinia Wallen, married Sidney Wells, and my mother, Phyllis Burke (nee Wells) was their only child.


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This orphan has been claimed by: Neala Johnson

Lavinia Edmunds was the half-sister of my 2 x great grandmother Clara Edmunds (married name Fern).

Their father Charles Edmunds appears to have remarried while Lavinia and sister Amy were in the Orphan School for a second time in 1862 - nine further children including Clara were born from this marriage to Ellen Lewis. A note on the Orphan School records in January 1863 reads: “Edmunds has married again and is now of (healthy?) habits. The children in question and most of them under his care children are in very comfortable circumstances.”

The half-siblings appear to have been close as Clara was the informant for the birth of Charles Jnr's son Percy in 1883.


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