James Edgerston Telfer
Biography
Role: Son of Adam Francis Telfer and Margaret Dougal Telfer
Born: 1878
Died: 1959
Father: Adam Francis Telfer (1842–1925)
Mother: Margaret Dougal Telfer (1849–1936)
Family
| Relation | Name |
|---|---|
| Father | Adam Francis Telfer (1842–1925) |
| Mother | Margaret Dougal Telfer (1849–1936) |
Life Summary
James Edgerston Telfer was born in 1878 and died in 1959. 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): Then there was Ted — James Edgerston they put on the record, but Ted to the family, and some knew him as J.B. He took the stockman's path and made his life at Bool Lagoon, that flat wet country where the cattle stood thick and the seasons decided everything. He carried the Edgerston name from the old place out to the lagoon country, a quieter son among a loud, bright family. When they laid him to rest at Tantanoola in 1959, aged eighty-one, he'd outlived most of his brothers — the last of the old Edgerston boys to go.
(Anecdote only — family colour, told as the elders tell it. Does not establish any relationship, date or place.)
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Parents
- Adam Francis Telfer (1842 – 1925)
- Margaret Dougal Telfer (1849 – 1936)
Siblings
- Adelaide Elsie Pearl Telfer (1889 – 1976)
- Effie Olive Telfer (1886 – 1969)
- Elizabeth Beattie Telfer (1871 – 1948)
- Eva Rowena Telfer (1885 – 1974)
- Francis Adam Telfer (1875 – 1955)
- Hazel Rose Telfer (1891 – 1939)
- Herbert Dougal Telfer (1881 – 1974)
- Lillian May Telfer (1872 – 1951)
- Margaret Wright Telfer (1869 – 1890)
- Vernon Ray St. Clair Telfer (1879 – 1960)
- Violet Hope Telfer (1883 – 1967)