Edward Freestun - born Dublin 1764 (no documentation but hearsay - date appears correct)

Edward Freestun married Mary Lockyer (of Dublin) in Waterford Cathedral (Church of Ireland) on 21st September 1788.
Mary was the daughter of Sir William Lockyer (entitled to 'bear Arms'), and was first cousin of Major Sir Edmund Lockyer, landholder in colonial Sydney, and founder of the city of Perth, Western Australia, on behalf of the then governor of New South Wales.
The Lockyer family seem to have largely centred around Plymouth - not sure of the Dublin reference.

Edward and Mary lived at Primrose Hill, Tramore on the coast, a few km out of Waterford, Ireland. The home is still there, and has been renovated a couple of times since 1788!
Edward's death notice in the Waterford Mail in 1828 gave his place of birth as Dublin, and age 64 (hence DOB of 1764, instead of previously held date of 1770.) No evidence of Edward has been found in Dublin. There is a possibility of links to the Freston family of Norfolk.
Edward worked for the Customs Office, for which reference is found in local newspapers.
Silverware and a family Crest (3 rearing greyhounds), Motto "Sans Souci" appears from the time of the wedding, along with a family bible.
These are held by Robin Freestun of Melbourne, Australia, (b1955) who can be contacted at rfreestun@hotmail.com.
Edward appears to have had a close relationship with the May Family, of Mayfield in Waterford, (existing now as a Nursing Home) and may have been good friends with Sir Algernon's son, Humphrey. In the 1790s Sir Algernon May was the Customs agent, and may have sponsored Edward into the Customs service. His son was Humphrey May.
Edward and Mary Freestun's eldest son, was Humphrey May Freestun (! - born 1794), who went to sea at a very young age (8/9), as a 1st Class Volunteer in 1803 and served during numerous battles before returning home in 1813, Invalided out as a lieutenant. He married a wealthy heiress in 1820, and moved to Monckton Combe, near Bath, Somerset.
Edward and Mary's Eldest child was Catherine, born in 1793, who married George Allen in 1828 (around the time of the death of Edward? 24/9/1828). They lived on the Isle of Man, and had no known children.
The Catholic church records show the deaths of two children close together in December 1796, with no details other than 'child of Edward Freestone'. Unusual that the records were in the Catholic records, and the spelling is different, but the 1790s were very troubling times in Ireland.
The Freestun's then had 4 more children, Edward Lockyer (born 1802), Maria (1803), Charles Lockyer (1804) and William Lockyer (1805).
Maria and her mother both died in 1821 a few days apart (Maria just under 18).
The boys all seem to have gone to the military (say reports). William went on to become Sir William, and be the MP for Weymouth from 1847-1859), but Edward and Charles headed off to Australia, arriving in Hobart on the "NANCY", on 20th March 1830.
So out of sight were they, that Sir William's obituary referred to him as the 'Second son of Edward Freestun of Primrose Hill, near Waterford".
Edward Freestun spent time as a policeman in Tasmania (during the time of the building of the famous Ross Bridge), before heading to South Australia, while Charles was Chief Constable at Georgetown on the Tamar River, for 10 years before heading to Far North Queensland to the goldfields. Charles left a legacy of a large family in Queensland, before returning to Georgetown for his final years.
There is LOTS more, but it would be great to find OLDER stuff, from the Dublin of the 1760s.