Ebenezer Cowley

Birth registered Q2.1849 in Cirencester District (Fairford)

Aged 1 in 1851 at Milton End Fairford with parents and siblings.

1861 is 11 in Milton Street, Fairford.

COWLEY, Ebenezer Sex: M Age: 15 years Passage money: £10 Surety details: Isaac Cowley, Builder, Durban Port of arrival: Durban, Natal Arrived 25 February 1865 aboard the Tugela Source: NAB Pietermaritzburg Archives, Land and Immigration Board, Natal,

   Register of Immigrants Arrived, Vol 65, page 76 transcribed by: James Anderson, from photographs taken by John Deare.

According to Cecil Cowley he arrived in Durban from the UK in 1879. The above rcord corrects his memory.

Married in Durban in1872.

Moved on to Queensland Australia. On 2/7/1881 The Brisbane Gazette mentions an Ebenezer Cowley being appointed as Government Auctioneer at Cardwell.

Albert H Benson in "Fruits of Queensland" mentions that c1890 : It is said that a thriving young plant, which is unquestionably G. mango- stana, is owned by Mr. Banfield, of Dunk Island. The records of the Kamerunga Nursery show that in October, 1891, a quantity about 100 of ripe mangosteen fruit was received from the Batavian agency by the then manager, Mr. Ebenezer Cowley, from which some 600 seeds were obtained. Of these, only a few germinated.