Robert Lee Eather

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About Robert Lee Eather

Married (i) Mary Lynch. (ii) Elizabeth Brown.

BDM NSW

Birth possibly: V1795/110 148; Eader (sic), Robert L, to Thomas and Elizabeth.

1. Marriage V1824 3398 3B CC (Church of England Windsor, St Matthew's);

Heather, (sic) Robert, to Linch, Mary.

2. Marriage 1856/1856 Parramatta: Either (sic), Robert, to Brown Elizabeth.

The SMH Fri 20 Feb 1857 MARRIAGE

By special license, at St. Patrick's Church, Parramatta, on the 6th of December, Mr. Robert Ether, farmer, of North Richmond, to Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, of York-street, Sydney, and sister of the late Mr. Pierce John Creagh, of Pitt-street.

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Death 1881/7908 Richmond; Ether/Eather, Robert, son of Thomas and Elizabeth.

The Australian, Windsor, Richmond, and Hawkesbury Advertiser (NSW) Sat 21 May 1881:

THE LATE ROBERT EATHER. —This pioneer of the Hawkesbury departed this life recently ; much regretted.

He had attained the ripe old age of 86, and was the eldest of five brothers. He was the first of the five to leave for the bourne from whence no traveller returns.

The aggregate of the ages of these venerable brothers was 392 years : Robert, 86 ; twins, 81 ; one, 74 ; and the youngest, 70.

Mr. Eather leaves behind him great great grand children.

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According to the Obituary for Robert, the five brothers had an aggregate age of 392 in 1881:

Robert born 1795 (age 86)

Twins Charles and Thomas born 1800 (age 81)

John ; 74, and if he was, he was born c1807.

The youngest, James, age 70, born 1811.

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Robert Lee Eather's Timeline

1795
April 29, 1795
Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
May 24, 1795
New South Wales, Australia
1800
October 1, 1800
Age 5
Hawksbury, New South Wales ,Australia
1820
1820
Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
1821
1821
Cornwallis, New South Wales ,Australia
1822
September 17, 1822
Cornwallis, New South Wales, Australia
1825
1825
Age 29
Windsor, New South Wales, Australia
1826
September 20, 1826
Cornwallis, New South Wales, Australia
1827
1827
Windsor, New South Wales, Australia