TANTRUM Edwin
Date of Birth:
9 Apr 1849
Date of Death:
3 Nov 1925
Edwin was born at Shropshire, England.
He married Mary Banks (born 1852 at Shropshire) in 1871 at Ludlow, Shropshire.
They emigrated to NZ in 1872 on board the "Durham". The eldest child, Eliza, was born on the ship.
They had 6 daughters & 4 sons.
The youngest son (John) died of wounds suffered at Passchendaele in Oct 1917.
Two sons are buried in Levin.
Edward was a railway ganger based in Foxton in the 1880's. They moved to Levin around 1894 where he was a surfaceman then a contractor. By 1905 he had moved to Taonui as a farmer.
See Levin Daily Chronicle, 4 Nov 1925 for his obituary.
Relatives mentioned in profile:
Edwin Tantrum, William Tantrum, Susannah Jones, Mary Banks, James Banks, Margaret Francis, Eliza Elizabeth Tantrum, Frederick Hanson, Susannah (Susie) Tantrum, John Joseph Carson, Walter George Thomas Tantrum, Hannah Heap, Clara Tantrum, John Howe James, John Tuxford Woodmass, Ellen Deborah (Nellie) Tantrum, Cyril Sidney (Samuel) Rush, Emily Teresa Martin, Mary Tantrum, Alfred Herbert Jensen, George Edwin Tantrum, Marian Sarah Coleman, Sarah Evelyn Tantrum, Philip Henry David Heap, William James Tantrum, Elsie Ann Arnold, John Tantrum.