Herbert Dougal Telfer

Role: Son of Adam Francis Telfer and Margaret Dougal Telfer

Born: 1881
Died: 1974

Father: Adam Francis Telfer (1842–1925)
Mother: Margaret Dougal Telfer (1849–1936)

Family

Life Summary

Herbert Dougal Telfer was born in 1881 and died in 1974. Son of Adam Francis Telfer and Margaret Dougal Telfer

Source: Telfer family records

Family Stories

🖊️ Anecdote — as told in From the Borders to the Bush (book pp. 268–269, 325–327): Herb was the travelling one. He went out and managed a big sheep station up at Truro — dry, open, woolshed country where a man had to know his sheep and his water — and he cut a solid, quiet figure in charge there. Later he moved right over to Western Australia and settled at Greenmount, and it was Herb's place that took in his sister Effie after her stroke, and gave her a home for her last years. He was the brother who was there when the family needed a steady hand, on a station and in a house. He died in 1974, the last of the Edgerston sons to leave us.

(Anecdote only — family colour, told as the elders tell it. Does not establish any relationship, date or place.)