Edmund Blucher Uhr was born about 1815 at London, Middlesex, England. He was a son of John Frederick Uhr and Louisa Agatha Ker.
He migrated to the Colony of New South Wales in the mid to late 1830s. His brother, George, migrated in 1837 (probably upon their mother's death as he was still just fifteen years of age) and married at Sydney in 1841.
Edmund married Amy Kemp, daughter of Anthony Fenn Kemp and Elizabeth Riley, in 1840 in (church code CJ), New South Wales. [1] The couple had five sons and three daughters:
During the 1840s, Edmund and his brother, John, held the lease of Wivenhoe Station, in the upper Brisbane Valley. [2] It was at Wivenhoe Station in December 1845 that 35-year old John was killed by Aboriginals, giving him the somewhat dubious honour of being the first member of the 'squatting class' to lose his life to the spears and waddies of the indigenous inhabitants. [3] On the same day that Edmund registered his brother’s death – 25th December 1845 – he also registered that of his father, Johan Cornelius Fredrik Uhr, a native of Sweden aged 76, at nearby Gatton. [3]
In 1850, Edmund sold the Wivenhoe lease and moved his family to the Wide Bay (site of today's Maryborough), on the Queensland coast, where he established a boiling-down works on the site of the present Queen's Park. [4]
He was for later the Sergeant at Arms of the Legislative Assembly of the Colony of Brisbane. [2]
Edmund passed away, at about 60 years of age, on 13th July 1874 at Brisbane, Queensland and was buried in the now closed Christ Church churchyard, Hale Street, Milton. [5][4][2] He was survived by his wife and five children. His brother George had died in 1864.
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