Born: |
February 16th 1876 (Lambeth) |
Died: |
October 10th 1940 (Lower Tooting, London SW17) |
Father: |
John Joseph Newbon (1842- |
Mother: |
Elizabeth Eliza Newbon, formerly Holloway (c.1845- |
Spouse: |
Rhoda Matilda Marshall (1874- |
Occupation: |
Omnibus driver |
Children: |
George Thomas Newbon (1892- John Henry Newbon (1906- Louisa Violet (Sadie) Newbon (1912- |
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George Thomas Newbon (the eldest of the 13 children) married Margaret (sometimes spelt Marguerite) Harper in 1918 at Brentford and shortly after their marriage the couple moved to Hull, where they lived until George’s death in 1949. Maggie outlived her husband by 24 years. Several of their 6 surviving children and their families still live in the Hull area today. Their eldest child Betty emigrated to Australia in 1946. She died at Scone, Australia in 2002, aged 82, and her family still lives in New South Wales and Queensland today. A certain amount of mystery surrounds the birth of George Thomas Newbon: he was in fact born in 1892, 4 years before Rhoda and Walter married, in the Wandsworth Union Workhouse, his name listed as George Thomas Marshall, with no father’s name given. His mother Rhoda was 18 at the time and was a laundry maid. Whatever the circumstances of George’s birth, it is clear that he was brought up by Walter as one of his own children.
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Walter Francis Newbon (known as Joe), who was born in 1897, the year after his parents’ marriage, married Ellen Green (known as Cissie) in 1926. They lived in Carshalton with their 3 children until Joe’s early death in 1942, at the age of 45: an accident while chopping wood in which he cut his finger resulted in him contracting lockjaw. Cissie then married Henry Chapman in 1961; she died 3 years later.
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Emily Elizabeth Newbon married Frederick Botting in 1924; they lived in Thornton Heath with their 2 children. Emmie died in 1971, aged 71, 9 years after her husband.
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Ethel Victoria Newbon married James Champion in 1926; they lived with their 2 sons in Croydon. Ethel lived to be 85 (she died in 1986); Jimmy outlived her by just under 2 years.
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Elizabeth Jane Newbon married Ernest Buchan (known as ‘Son’) in 1928 and lived in Balham. Liz died in 1957 at the age of 55, and Son died 11 years later.
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Rhoda Matilda Newbon married Ernest Hutchison in 1936 and lived in Earlsfield. Rhoda died in 1974 at the age of 69; Ernie died in 1979, aged 73.
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John Henry Newbon married Florrie Ford in 1940 and the couple then moved to Worcester, where John died in 1978, aged 72. Florrie lived until 1996.
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Francis William Newbon married Lilian Goldsmith in 1939. The couple lived in Summerstown, Lower Tooting, and adopted a daughter. Frank died in 1966, aged 58, 11 years after Lil, who died aged only 48.
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William Charles Newbon married Emily Hookway in 1935 and soon afterwards they moved to Southampton; they had 3 daughters. Bill died in 1966, aged 57; Emmie lived until 1997.
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Louisa Violet Newbon (known as Sadie, after the stage name of a maternal aunt with whom she shared her original Christian name) married George Hopkins in 1938. They moved to Australia for several years in 1955 with their son and returned to England 10 years later; they then moved back to Australia for a further 9 years in 1975. George died in 1987, aged 72; Sadie then lived in Tonbridge, Kent until 2003, when she emigrated once again to be closer to her only son. Sadie died in Tasmania in June 2008 at the age of 95, the last surviving and the longest-
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Irene Hilda May Newbon married Francis Shead in 1934. They lived at Carshalton and had 3 children. Frank died aged only 35 in 1948; Rene died in 1985, aged 71.
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Arthur Edward Newbon married Lilla Elkins in 1946. The couple had 3 children and celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1996; the only other one of Walter and Rhoda’s children to have done so was Ethel. Lilla died in 2003, aged 87. Art (known to some members of the family as ‘Chill’) was the last member of the Newbon family to live in Earlsfield. He died in 2006, also aged 87.
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Doreen Elsie Newbon married James Smith Brown (a native of Fife, Scotland) in 1942. They and their 2 children lived with Mrs Rhoda Newbon until her death, leaving Turtle Road (which had been the family’s home for over 50 years) in 1968, shortly before the nearby River Wandle burst its banks, causing the road to be demolished soon afterwards. They thereafter lived as next-
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