Abram Robertson Byram

Abram Byram
17th Mayor of Brisbane
In office
1883–1883
Preceded by Robert Porter
Succeeded by John McMaster
Personal details
Born Abram Robertson Byram
1825
Died 20 February 1893 (aged 67)
Spring Hill, Queensland, Australia
Resting place Toowong Cemetery
Spouse(s) Elizabeth Freeman Elliot (m.1848 d.1898)
Occupation Cabinetmaker

Abram Robertson Byram (died 1893) was an alderman and mayor of Brisbane Municipal Council, Queensland, Australia.

Personal life

Abram Robertson Byram was born about 1825, the son of James Cooper Byram and Mary Robertson.[1][2][3]

Abram Robertson Byram married Elizabeth Freeman Elliot in Tynemouth, England in 1848. They had the following children in England:[2][4]

Hartley[2][5]

Abram and his family immigrated to Sydney, New South Wales on the Parsee arriving on 17 Jan 1853; their son William died on the voyage.[6]

A daughter Elizabeth Byram was born in 1854 in New South Wales, was married to Norman Meredith Davis in Brisbane in 1882 and died in Brisbane in 1920.[2][7]

They had more children in Brisbane:[2]

Abram Robertson Byram died at his home in Boundary Street, Spring Hill, Brisbane on 20 February 1893 aged 67 years. He is buried in Toowong Cemetery with his wife Elizabeth Freeman Byram and his sons George Elliot Byram and William James Byram.,[1][8][9]

Business life

Abram Robertson Byram was a cabinetmaker.[5]

Public life

Abram Robertson Byram was an alderman of the Brisbane Municipal Council from 1877 to 1888 and was mayor in 1883. He served on the following committees:[10]

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 Death notice for Abram Robertson Byram, The Brisbane Courier, Thursday 23 February 1893, page 4
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Queensland Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages
  3. Ancestry
  4. FreeBMD
  5. 1 2 1851 Census for Tynemouth, Northumberland, England
  6. Ancestry
  7. New South Wales Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages
  8. Toowong Cemetery (Brisbane General Cemetery) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on Interment.net
  9. Byram, Abram Robertson Brisbane City Council Grave Location Search
  10. Brisbane City Council Archives

External links

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