Dinah Tonkin, Free Settler “Hooghly” 1830

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Dinah Tonkin (Edwards), Free Settler “Hooghly” 1830

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Coleford, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Death: April 18, 1885 (67)
Fremantle, WA, Australia
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Richard Albert Edwards, Free Settler “Hoogley” 1830 and Elizabeth Edwards
Wife of John Foss Tonkin, Free Settler "Warrior" 1830
Mother of Mary Maria Johnson; Richard Tonkin; Edward Matthew Tonkin; Elizabeth Tonkin; Henry William Tonkin and 6 others
Sister of Matthew Edwards; Mary Voice; Joshua Edwards; George Edwards and Samuel Edwards

Managed by: Christer Balthasar
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About Dinah Tonkin, Free Settler “Hooghly” 1830

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Edwards-27129
Dinah came to Western Australia with her parents in the Hooghly, arriving on 12 February 1830. [1]

She married John Foss Tonkin on 26 December 1836 in Guildford.[2] They had eight children over the next 22 years.

West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tuesday 19 May 1885, page 3
TONKIN—On May 5th, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. John Tapper, junior, Fremantle, after a long and painful ill-ness, DINAH, wife of John Foss Tonkin, aged 67 years. Deeply regretted by her sorrowing family. Deceased arrived in the Colony, in the ship " Hoogly," 1830.[3]

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Dinah Tonkin, Free Settler “Hooghly” 1830's Timeline

1818
February 1, 1818
Coleford, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
1837
July 2, 1837
Upper Swan, WA, Australia
1838
August 28, 1838
Upper Swan, City of Swan, Western Australia, Australia
1840
November 10, 1840
Upper Swan, WA, Australia
1842
1842
1844
July 21, 1844
Upper Swan, WA, Australia
1844
1846
August 20, 1846
Cussington, Western Australia, Australia
1848
September 18, 1848
Wisewood, Upper Swan, WA, Australia