Ebenezer ROUND

Date of Birth: 
c 1871
Date of Death: 
16 Dec 1933

Ebenezer was born at Mudgee in NSW, Australia.

It is not known when he came to NZ

He married Harriet Fisher born at Tawa in 1858) in 1904 & adopted her two children (son & daughter).

He is recorded as being in Levin as a tinsmith & then a labourer from at least 1899 to 1908. From 1911 he was in Palmerston Nth as a fruiterer & then bush contractor before moving to National Park as a bushman. His wife stayed behind & then moved to live with her son in Rongotea.

Ebenezer is recorded on the 1905 unofficial census (for the Levin township petition) as a labourer with 6 people & 1 building.

Relatives mentioned in profile: 
Ebenezer Round, Harriet Fisher, Cornelius Fisher, Elizabeth Edwards, Ivy Matilda Round, Bertram Robert (John) Watkins, Vernon Clive Ebenezer Round, May Edith Florence Baylis.