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Born: 2 Sept. 1814 Petworth Sussex England, died: 3 October 1887 Randwick Sydney NSW.
Married: Susan Dickson 1845 Paddington NSW also at Goulbourn NSW.
Parents: George Daintrey and Mary Woods-Sandham.
Training to be a Doctor of Medicine in London, ill health forced him to NSW
in 1840 where the Governor appointed Edwin Daintrey, Edward Burton and Robert
Shadforth, gentlemen, Clerks of Arraigus and Clerks of Assize in the Circuit
Courts. Edwin became a solicitor and was on many committees. In 1860 Edwin
delivered an address to the Randwick Mutual Improvement Society on "The
Microscope - its results and uses" Edwin was a solicitor with offices
at 33 Castlereagh Street Sydney, an expert amateur botanist and a founder
of the Linnean Society of NSW.
Source: pers. comm: Pam Ward, family decendent, 2001