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Edward Brandon
1866 - 1956 (90 years)-
Name Edward Brandon [1] Birth 28 Jun 1866 Lower Clapton, London 
[1] Gender Male Immigration 29 Oct 1881 Wellington, New Zealand [1] Ship: Pleione Death 2 Sep 1956 Palmerston, New Zealand [1] - Cause: pneumonia
Person ID I22613 Great Wooster Tree Last Modified 21 Jan 2014
Father Richard Brandon, b. 1842, Rotherhithe, Surrey d. 5 Feb 1898, Whanganui, New Zealand (Age 56 years) Mother Lucy Ballard, b. 11 Sep 1841, Broadstairs, Kent d. 14 May 1926, Wellington, New Zealand (Age 84 years) Marriage 5 Sep 1865 Parish Church, Broadstairs, Kent [1] - Married by the Rev Fred Newell
Family ID F05982 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Mutu Ngamoenga, b. Unknown d. Bef. 1918 Marriage 1902 [1] Family ID F6923 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Hera Te Mana, b. Unknown d. Unknown Marriage 1918 Family ID F6924 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map 
Birth - 28 Jun 1866 - Lower Clapton, London 
Immigration - Ship: Pleione - 29 Oct 1881 - Wellington, New Zealand 
Death - 2 Sep 1956 - Palmerston, New Zealand = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Histories 
Edward Brandon
From Rev. Brian Brandon
Ted was the oldest of the Brandon children, born on the 28th of June 1866, at Lower Clapton. He was one member of the family who seemed to be cut off, or who cut himself off from the rest of the family, and who the family knew the least about.
Apparently, he trained as a boy in England in a stained glass factory and was good at the work. Ted said that other members of the family wanted him to stay in England and to adopt him, but his mother wouldn't allow it. He would have been 15 years old when the family came out to NZ. He worked for many years in Murray's Foundry, Wanganui, engineers and boat builders .
He had a strong association with the Maori people on the Wanganui river. In 1902 he married Mutu Ngamoenga. There were no children of the marriage, and she died at some stage. Then in 1918 he remarried to Sarah Te Mana. They had one child, Daniel. After they were married, Rua, the father of Sarah made Ted leave. He spoke fluent Maori, and could interpret from Maori to English or vice versa without hesitation.
Ted had a very kind nature, but he didn't look after himself or his home very well. In the early 1950's when money from the English estate of Aunts Alice, Minnie and sister, Edith was left to various members of the family, Ted bought a house at Putiki. There Lila Brandon looked after him for a short while, but she found it a hopeless situation. In his old age, a Maori family promised him a home where they would look after him, but it was not long before he was placed in a home in Palmerston North. He died there on the 2nd of September, 1956, aged 90 from pneumonia.
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Sources - [S326] Rev. Brian Brandon (Reliability: 3).
- [S326] Rev. Brian Brandon (Reliability: 3).