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Charles Edward de Fonblanque PENNEFATHER (1848-1922)

Name:	Charles Edward de Fonblanque PENNEFATHER 1
Sex:	Male
Father:	Kingsmill PENNEFATHER ( - )
Mother:	Patricia Kathrine DE GRANIER DE FONBLANQUE ( - )

Individual Events and Attributes

Birth	23 Jun 1848	Geneva, Switzerland
Death	2 Oct 1922 (age 74)	Levuka, Fiji

Marriage

Spouse	Mary Rose SEWARD (1856-1946)
Children	John William Seward PENNEFATHER (1883- )
	Charles Edward de Fonblanque PENNEFATHER (1885-1950)
	Edward Kingsmill Seward PENNEFATHER (1898- )
Marriage	2 Feb 1881 (age 32)	Victoria, Australia

Individual Note

From Ros Escott - April 2010

 

I have done some research into Pennefathers because in my extended family tree, a cousin of an ancestor married Charles Pennefather the explorer:

Charles Edward de Fonblanque Pennefather married Mary Rose Seward in 1881 in Preston, VIC, Australia (BDM #682)

 

I have Charles as born 23 Jun 1848 in Geneva, Swizerland and died 2 Oct 1922 in Levuka, Fiji

 

Mary Rose Pennefather nee Seward was born 1856 in Darebin Creek, VIC, Australia and died 1946 in Queensland, Australia.

 

You have their three children listed on your website, but I have a few more details:

 

1. John William Seward Pennefather born 29 Sep 1883 Queensland, Australia.

 

He was an overseer at Alice Downs, Maranoa, QLD, Australia but no record of him in Australia after 1913

 

2. Charles Edward de Fonblanque Pennefather born 03 Jun 1885 Queensland, Australia

 

married Jessie Mary Roy Stewart on 21 Oct 1908 in Suva, Fiji

 

at least one child: Joan de Fonblanque Pennefather born 28 Aug 1913, married Felix Edward Montague in 1935 in Chatswood, NSW, Australia. She died 6 Jan 1993 in Auckland, New Zealand.

 

3. Edward Kingsmill Seward Pennefather born 09 Jun 1898 Queensland, Australia

 

married Phyllis Mary Eyre Hempsted in 1931 in Queensland. I don’t know if they had any children.

Sources

1	"David Pennefather's History".