Abram Robertson Byram (died 1893) was an Australian cabinetmaker and politician. He served as alderman and mayor of Brisbane Municipal Council, Queensland, Australia.
Personal life Abram Robertson Byram was born about 1825, the son of James Cooper Byram and Mary Robertson.Queensland Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and MarriagesAncestry He married Elizabeth Freeman Elliot in Tynemouth, England in 1848. They had the following children in England:FreeBMD Maria Freeman Byram, born about 1850 Tynemouth, England, married 1872 in Rockhampton, Queensland to Willam James Hartley1851 Census for Tynemouth, Northumberland, England William Elliot Byram, born 1851 in Tynemouth, England
Abram and his family immigrated to Sydney on the Parsee, arriving on 17 Jan 1853; William died on the voyage.Ancestry
Daughter Elizabeth Byram was born in 1854 in New South Wales. She married Norman Meredith Davis in Brisbane in 1882 and died in Brisbane in 1920.New South Wales Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages
They had more children in Brisbane:
William James Byram, born 1861. He died in 1922 in Queensland George Elliot Byram, born 1865. He died in 1875 in Queensland.
Abram Robertson Byram died at his home in Boundary Street, Spring Hill, Brisbane on 20 February 1893 aged 67. He is buried in Toowong Cemetery with his wife Elizabeth Freeman Byram and his sons George and William.Death notice for Abram Robertson Byram, The Brisbane Courier, Thursday 23 February 1893, page 4Toowong Cemetery (Brisbane General Cemetery) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on Interment.net Byram, Abram Robertson Brisbane City Council Grave Location Search
Public life Abram Robertson Byram served as alderman of the Brisbane Municipal Council from 1877 to 1888 and as mayor in 1883. He served on various committees:Brisbane City Council Archives Improvement Committee 1879, 1881 Legislative Committee 1879–1881, 1883 Finance Committee 1878, 1880, 1882, 1887 Works Committee 1883, 1888 Health Committee 1888 Town Hall Committee 1885, 1886.
See also List of mayors and lord mayors of Brisbane Photo of Abram Robertson Byram, 1883
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