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Dadswell Family History

Generation 9
Herbert Edward Dadswell (1875-1968)

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Ancestors of Herbert Edward Dadswell
Herbert Edward Dadswell's story
Key family dates
Further information

Ancestors of Herbert Edward Dadswell

Robert Doudeswell 1560 > Robert Doudeswell 1606 > Edward Dodswell 1659 > Edward Dodswell 1679 > Robert Dadswell 1711 > Robert Dadswell 1773 > Charles Dadswell 1817 > Charles Frederick Dadswell 1847 > Herbert Edward Dadswell 1875

Herbert Edward Dadswell's story

Herbert Edward Dadswell, the fourth of the eight children of Charles and Hannah (Richardson) Dadswell of Sydney, was born on 25 May 1875.

He attended Newington College and joined the Sydney Morning Herald as a junior clerk in 1890. In 1901 at Newtown, he married May Walton, daughter of Roland Robert and Rebecca (Kinder) Walton. May was born in West Gorton, Lancashire, England, in 1880 and as a child sailed to Australia aboard the Gulf of Mexico in 1885, along with her parents and five siblings. Herbert and May Dadswell had one child, Herbert Eric Dadswell, born in Sydney on 5 March 1903.

When the Herald's publisher, John Fairfax and Sons, was registered as a company in 1916, Herbert Edward Dadswell became its secretary and two years later also became its chief accountant.

His wife May died in 1919 and two years later Herbert Edward Dadswell (by then 46) married Linda Isabel Quinton, his secretary at the Herald. Linda was born at Ashfield, NSW in 1895 and thus was 26 at the time of the marriage. She was the daughter of Alice Maud Quinton.

For many years, Herbert Edward Dadswell and his wife Linda lived in Enmore. He was prominent in Newtown Congregational Church and in 1944 he retired from the newspaper business after 54 years with the John Fairfax and Sons company. He died in Sydney on 5 March 1968 when aged 92.

This 10-generation Family Chart shows the development of this Dadswell family (PDF file).

Key family dates

Herbert Edward Dadswell
born 25 May 1875 -
died 5 Mar 1968
married 1.
1901
 
May Walton
born 1880 -
died 11 Nov 1919

Child -
1. Herbert Eric Dadswell born 5 Mar 1903 - [married Inez Margaret Williams] - died 19 Dec 1964

Herbert Edward Dadswell
born 25 May 1875 -
died 5 Mar 1968
married 2.
1921
 
Linda Isabel Quinton
born 1895 -
died 1957

Further information

Information on Charles Frederick and Hannah Maria Dadswell (generation 8, parents of Herbert Edward Dadswell)


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