Herbert Dougal Telfer

Role: Son of Adam Francis Telfer and Margaret Dougal Telfer

Born: 13 Sep 1881 — Edgerston, South Australia
Died: 22 Apr 1976 — ashes scattered at the Karrakatta rose garden, Perth WA

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

Family

Life Summary

Herbert Dougal Telfer was born on 13 September 1881, the seventh of Adam Francis Telfer and Margaret Dougal Telfer's twelve children. He settled in Western Australia at Greenmount. He died on 22 April 1976; his ashes were scattered at the Karrakatta rose garden, Perth. He never married.

✅ Verified correction (09 Sep 2026): Death year corrected from 1974 → 1976. The vault previously held `1974` sourced to "Telfer family records" (unsourced). Two independent source groups agree on 1976: (1) the Find A Grave Mitcham family-plot record (memorial 245338232, Violet Hope Telfer) listing this ancestor as "Herbert Dougal Telfer 1881–1976" among Adam & Margaret's children, and (2) the physical book A Telfer Family Tree (Supplement 2008) p.304 — d. 22 Apr 1976, ashes scattered at the Karrakatta rose garden, Perth WA. Burial-site caveat: the SA Mitcham family monument carries his name, but per the Supplement his physical remains (ashes) were scattered at Karrakatta, Perth — the death year is unaffected by which location held them.

Source: Find a Grave — Violet Hope Telfer (1883–1967), Memorial 245338232 — family-plot listing "Herbert Dougal Telfer 1881–1976", Mitcham General Cemetery SA — accessed 9 Sep 2026
Source: A Telfer Family Tree (Supplement to From the Borders to the Bush), 2008 — p.304 "d. 22 Apr 1976, ashes scattered Karrakatta rose garden Perth; single" — accessed 9 Sep 2026

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 1976, 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.)