Abram Robertson Byram


Abram Robertson Byram was an 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.
Abram Robertson Byram married Elizabeth Freeman Elliot in Tynemouth, England in 1848. They had the following children in England:
Hartley
Abram and his family immigrated to Sydney, New South Wales on the Parsee arriving on 17 Jan 1853; their son William died on the voyage.
A daughter Elizabeth Byram was born in 1854 in New South Wales, was married to Norman Meredith Davis in Brisbane in 1882 and died in Brisbane in 1920.
They had more children in Brisbane:
Abram Robertson Byram died at his home in Boundary Street, Spring Hill, Brisbane on 20 February 1893 aged 67 years. He is buried in Toowong Cemetery with his wife Elizabeth Freeman Byram and his sons George Elliot Byram and William James Byram.,

Business life

Abram Robertson Byram was a cabinetmaker.

Public life

Abram Robertson Byram was an alderman of the Brisbane Municipal Council from 1877 to 1888 and was mayor in 1883. He served on the following committees: