Abram Robertson Byram

Abram Robertson Byram (died 1893) was an Australian cabinetmaker He married Elizabeth Freeman Elliot in Tynemouth, England in 1848. They had the following children in England: Maria Freeman Byram, born about 1850 Tynemouth, England, married 1872 in Rockhampton, Queensland to Willam James Hartley William Elliot Byram, born 1851 in Tynemouth, England

Abram and his family immigrated to Sydney on the Parsee, arriving on 17 Jan 1853; William died on the voyage.

Daughter Elizabeth Byram was born in 1854 in New South Wales. She married Norman Meredith Davis in Brisbane in 1882 and died in Brisbane in 1920.

They had more children in Brisbane:

Public life Abram Robertson Byram served as alderman of the Brisbane Municipal Council from 1877 to 1888 and as mayor in 1883. He served on various committees: Improvement Committee 1879, 1881 Legislative Committee 1879–1881, 1883 Finance Committee 1878, 1880, 1882, 1887 Works Committee 1883, 1888 Health Committee 1888 Town Hall Committee 1885, 1886.