Surname Elbourn(e) / Elbon / Elburn / Elbin / Elben
Dorset, England
This page was updated by Mara French
on 11/4/13.
Roz Bainbridge, roz.bainbridge@gmail.com,
has written about 200 pages on the William
Elbourn Family in England.
Surname Elbourn(e) / Elbon / Elburn / Elbin / Elben
Dorset, England
This page was updated by Mara French
on 11/4/13.
Roz Bainbridge, roz.bainbridge@gmail.com,
has written about 200 pages on the William
Elbourn Family in England.
Jonathan Elbon was b. 24 Jun 1773 in Melcombe Regis, Dorset, England, the son of William and Elizabeth Elbon.
Margaret Elbon was b. 11 Mar 1732 in Wyke Regis, Dorset, England, the daughter of William and Margaret Elbon.
Elizabeth Elben - International Genealogical Index / BI Gender: Female Christening: 10 OCT 1783 Melcombe-Regis, Dorset, England.
Elizabeth Elborn, in the 1841 Census of Weymouth, Dorset, age 60.
Mary Fall Elborne, christened 11 Oct 1829 in Wyke-Regis, Dorset, England, daughter of William and Ann Elborne.
Louisa Sarah Elborne, christened 16 Jul 1848 in Melcombe-Regis, Dorset, England, daughter of William and Ann Elborne.
Margaret Elbon, daughter of William and Margaret Elbon, b. 11 Mar 1732/33 in Wyke Regis, Dorset, England.
This Ellbourn family was from Dorset, their grandfather
being James Ellbourn ...he is from the Bassingborn Elbourn family. He
lived in Dorset as he was in the Royal marines ...Roz has to dig out the
records, but the family just disappeared moving all over the world
...there is one family member still living Dorset ....in
those days, the spelling was just how it sounded ...Emma being my 3x
Great Aunty...William and Ann being my 3x grandparents....
On arriving in Sydney they were met by Arthur Edward Ellbourn
and his brother William Ellbourn according to
a diary keep by Emma Elbourn the wife of
Joseph in that diary she talks about the ship the Dunbar, she writes
how lucky they didn't need saving by there cousin there is no shipping records
for Arthur & William Ellbourn. Arthur Edward
EllbournÕs obituary in 1911 said he served for a
few months on the HMS "Victory" in Portsmouth Harbour,
and afterwards joined HMS "Highflyer" which covered the landing of
the troops at Balaklava for which he received a silver medal (1854). He would
have been 18 years old his obituary also says he was a member of the crew of
the pilot boat that rescued the only survivor of the "Dunbar" which
sunk in Sydney Harbour in August 1957. James Johnson
was the only survivor. In 1855 William Ellbourn abode
South Head Profession Apistard Signal Officer Sydney
AUSTRALIA. Arthur was to go to South Australia
somewhere around 1863/4 were he has 100's of descendants living there
today. Arthur Edward, who later settled in the norlunga/aldinga area whose daughter, Cassie, first saw the
shipwrecked "Star of Greece" off the southern coast and ran to tell
her father, Arthur Edward Ellbourn, who organised a rescue crew to help. William Ellbourn with his 2nd wife and children went to South
Australia then returned to N.S.W. Bathurst around 1870. William, Ann Elbourn and Arthur Elbourn went
to Bathurst while Joseph and Emma Elbourn went to Dungong. Also in the diary keep by Emma it says on
arriving in Sydney if we had wings we would fly back home.