Edwin Henry HAM

1870 - 1945  (74 years)

• Name	Edwin Henry HAM
  Birth	27 Jul 1870
  Gender	Male
  Death	1 Jul 1945
  Person ID	I2009	FHC006 - White Tree
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Richard HAM,   b. Abt 1836, Lymsworthy, Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England d. Aug 1926, Warragamba, Victoria, Australia (Age ~ 90 years)
  Mother	Margaret CRONK,   b. Abt 1845   d. 15 Dec 1918, Pannoomilloo, Victoria, Australia (Age ~ 73 years)
  Marriage	9 Sep 1863
  Family ID	F632	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jane McMaster REID   d. 28 May 1956, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
  Marriage	25 Mar 1896
  Children	1. Charles Caldwell HAM,   b. 29 Nov 1897, Rochester, Victoria, Australia d. 1981 (Age 83 years)   2. Grace Margaret HAM,   b. 21 Aug 1899, Rochester, Victoria, Australia   3. Helen Jean HAM,   b. 3 Mar 1903, Echuca, Victoria, Australia   4. Jessie Campbell HAM,   b. 25 Dec 1907, Echuca, Victoria, Australia d. 21 Dec 1993 (Age 85 years)   5. Edwin Richard Campbell HAM,   b. 25 Dec 1908, Echuca, Victoria, Australia d. 1973, Echuca, Victoria, Australia (Age 64 years)   6. Robert Reid HAM,   b. 17 May 1912, Echuca, Victoria, Australia d. 10 Jun 1980, Echuca, Victoria, Australia (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F946	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Roll of Victorian Voters at the Federal Referendum 1899: Ham, Edwin H., Rochester, farmer. "Pioneers of the Echuca and Moama Districts, pre 1925": The prospect in the 1870's for Richard Ham and his family of new land becoming available from the Crown, north of the Murray, was exciting. Withfivesons and three daughters, spreading out from their property "Windermere" in the Diggora district seemed the natural thing to do. For Richard, securing the property "Altcar" north-west of Moama, was the culmination of a long journey which he had started in north Cornwall asaboy. Together with his father, Richard snr., and five older brothers (two other brothers had arrived in Australia earlier) Richard disembarkedin1852 at Port Phillip from the ship 'Bombay'. It had been a tragic journey, with his mother and young sister dying in an accident on board astheship neared the Victorian coastline. After a period of farming with his father and brothers at Dowling Forest (where Richard snr. is buried) near Ballarat, and working on theEurekagoldfields, Richard and wife Margaret (who had been a teacher on the diggings) moved north. Other Ham families moved north also, to Lascelles(nearSwan Hill and later to Queensland) and Lockington, where Richard's brother William settled. By all accounts it was an arduous journey toDiggorawith a son Richard percy being born in the wagon on the way. So it was that three of Richard's sons and a married daughter, Margaret (Mrs Robert Docherty) moved to the Moama - Tatiala district. George andhiswife Flora lived at "Altcar" on the corner of Thyra and Hams Roads; Edwin and his wife Jenny (Reid) took up another Crown land grant at"Glenburnie"in the Tataila parish, with Frank and his wife gertrude (Cable) on the property "Ilsley Park", nearby on the banks of the Murray River. Richard Percy stayed in the Diggora district, eventually retiring into Rochester. Norman farmed at Bamawm and at Griffith, NSW. The othertwodaughters married in the Elmore-Rochester area. Alice became Mrs Roger Shotton and Mabel became Mrs Bill Bodger. [the article has more information about their lives]