Ebenezer Davies was born in 1808 at Tetbury Gloucestershire, England. He had little education and left home at an early age because his parents could not support him. He was employed in general trading in London when he married Ruth Bartlett in 1831 and later acquired a straw hat manufactory at Halstead, in Essex. In 1849 he emigrated with his wife and nine children to Geelong in Victoria where he owned a tannery.
His wife died in childbirth in 1853.
He remarried in 1857 to Jane Vines and had five more children, however only 2 of them survived infancy.
Ebenezer moved to Melbourne in old age and is buried at St Kilda cemetery.
We think these portraits may have been done by Florence Fuller [www.daao.org.au/main/read/2663] who was somehow related to the Davies family.
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