Edmund
Creswell
Born about [location unknown]
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Edmund William Creswell, William Rooke Creswell KCMG and Mary Catherine Edwards (Creswell) Mitchell
Died
at about age 77
in Gibraltar
Profile last modified
| Created 8 Dec 2018
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Biography
Edmund Creswell was born in about 1800.
He was appointed as a post office agent abroad, working in Gibraltar on 23 October 1822. [1], and became postmaster of the colony in 1831.
He married Mary Margaret Ward Fraser on 27 November 1844 in Firenze, Toscana, Italy [2]
Edmund was responsible for amalgamating the two Gibraltar postal services, when the Royal Gibraltar Post Office was founded on 1 January 1857 [3]
Sir William Rooke Creswell (1852-1933), vice admiral, was born on 20 July 1852 at Gibraltar, son of Edmund Creswell, the colony's deputy-postmaster-general, and his wife Margaret Mary Ward, née Fraser. Educated at Aitken's Private School, Gibraltar, and Eastman's Naval Academy, Southsea, England
Sources
- ↑ Ancestry British Postal Service Appointment Books, 1737-1969 [1]
- ↑ "Italia Matrimoni, 1809-1900", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XK3L-S77 : 7 February 2020), Edmund Creswell, 1844.
- ↑ 150th anniversary of the Gibraltar Post Office
- Robert Hyslop, 'Creswell, Sir William Rooke (1852–1933)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 1981, accessed online 8 December 2018.
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