DescriptionEdward Griffiths, farmer and grazier was born in North Wales in 1818. He married his first wife, Amelia Owens on 27th September 1851 and in 1852 they emigrated to what would become Queensland. The couple travelled to Australia aboard the ship Parsee.
Edward gained some experience on Doctor Dorsey's station, near Ipswich and then for nearly three years he worked for R. J. Smith at his boiling down established 'Town Marie'.
In 1856 Edward purchased a block of twenty-five acres, the nucleus of his farm at Redbank Plains which comprised 468 acres of good agricultural land.
Amelia died on 12th September 1865 leaving Edward to raise their six sons. On 15th May 1866 at the age of thirty-eight, Edward married twenty-one year old Mary Jane Buchanan at Goodna.
Edward was a member of the Purga Divisional Board in 1884. At the time of his death in April 1898 he had eleven sons, six daughters and thirty-six grandchildren.References (online)Death of Mr. Edward Griffith
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