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Born in Evandale and buried at St Andrew CE Evandale. Baptised 06/04/1859 at St Andrew CE Evandale.

Edward was a farmer at Evandale. He became a general dealer, selling meat, chaff, wheat etc. He also hired horses
to those who needed one and used his cart to transport goods for other people. He did contract ploughing and contract
shearing and at these time he employed men to work on his team. Some of these were E Duffy, A Banks, J Green,
J Davies and J Daymon. Edward did a lot of work for Misses Fall, everything from killing pigs, ploughing and sowing, to carting wood. Edward was a committee member of the Evandale Agricultural Show Society in 1904. [Show Society records]


 In1894 Edward occupied a house in Russell St owned by F Franklin who is unknown to me. Might be a misspelling of 'E'.
By 1894 Edward appears to be a busy man according to the Assessment Roll for the Water District of Evandale.

• Occupy an allotment, Collins St, owned by Thomas Fall,s Executors              1 acre   Annual Value £1
  Occupy a house, Russell St, owned by F Franklin, ( 'E'? not 'F')                      1 acre   Annual Value £12
  Occupy and owned land, Russell St                                                                     1 acre   Annual Value £1
  Occupy land, Russell St, owned by J Franklin Jun (James Cox Franklin)        1 acre   Annual Value £1
  Occupy agricultural land, Evandale, owned by JI Boyes                                 53 acres Annual Value £17

          
Map showing the land owned by JI Boyes (underline) and a general site of Edward's Russel St home.

              
The house in at 36 Russell St Evandale, home of Edward and possibly his father James.
(Photo P Guest 2008)

Edward still had this portfolio in 1920 and probably until his death in 1924 because his daughter Eva has a similar portfolio in 1925, the year after Edward's death. While Eva is recorded as the owner, her husband Percy Charles Guest is listed as the occupier.


"Dad and uncle Will Daw."
William Henry Daw is Fanny Daw's brother and married Edward's sister, Sarah Mary

                                                  
                                                          Edward from Fanny Daw's Album



                      
                           On his honeymoon with Fanny c 1882 and another of Fanny from Fanny Daw's Album



 "Eva Guest & Dad & House Keeper for 33yrs Miss Anny Vaux."
"Dad" is Edward Henry Franklin and needed a house keeper after his wife (Eva's mother) Fanny,
died in 1897 when Eva was two. Not sure who the child is. See detail of photo below. Photo taken at Edward's house on land that fronted onto Russell St. and backed onto Collins St., Evandale.

                                       


       
 An earlier photo taken in the same yard.( From the Evandale History Society ). "Perc, Jim Green and Dad."
Perc is Percy Charles Guest and Dad is Edward Franklin: husband and father of Eva Franklin respectively.
Not sure who Jim Green is. The sheds were used by neighbour Joe Peterson to store machinery.

 

                                                           Edward's Diary. Click here for more detail.

                                        
                                            Edward Franklin with his grandson Donald Guest. - 1917

  
                      Edward's brother William 1870-1943 and sister Eliza - from Fanny Daw's Album

 

                             
                     Edward and Fanny's grave site, Church of England Cemetery, Evandale, Tasmania
                     (Photos by P Guest 2008)

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