Emily (Crewe) Newton (1870 - 1947)

Born 2 Mar 1870 in Bowen, Queensland, Australia

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Newton Jr — married 31 Dec 1890 in Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia

Descendants

Died 15 Jun 1947 at age 77 in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Biography

Emily (Crewe) Newton has English ancestors.

Emily (Crewe) Newton has Welsh ancestors.

Emily Crewe was born in Queensland on the 2nd March 1870, in Bowen, Queensland, Australia, the daughter of Thomas Crewe and Sarah Anne Taylor. ^[1] One of her daughters told the next generation down that "Gran" had been born aboard ship just off from Bowen, near Port Denison.

There is a possibility that it wasn't Emily who born on board a ship, but the unnamed female who came after Emily and was registered as having been born at sea.

Queensland born.

At some point Emily started signing her name as "Emily Eliza". Certainly by the time she married Joseph Newton (junior) in December of 1890, as that's the name on her marriage certificate.^[2] She was fondly known as "Aunty Em" by the children of her siblings.
Emily and Joseph had five children, all girls — Daisy, Stella, Dolly, Violet and May — and when her middle child died in July of 1932, leaving two children under the age of ten as double-orphans (their father had died two years previously), Emily stepped up and, with the help of her unmarried youngest daughter, took the elder grandchild to raise.

Emily Eliza Newton née Crewe died of a cerebral haemorrhage, hypertension and myocarditis, two days after her doctor last saw her and an hour after the haemorrhage, 15th June 1947, aged 77 years.^[3] Her youngest daughter, May (who had never married), was the informant.

Emily was cremated and her ashes "scattered to the four winds at her request".

Sources

1. ↑ QLD BDM Birth Registration details: Emily Crewe, Event date: 02/03/1870, Event type: Birth registration, Registration details: 1870/C/44, Mother: Sarah Anne Taylor, Father/parent: Thomas Crewe
2. ↑ QLD BDM Marriage Registration details: Emily Eliza Crewe, Event date: 31/12/1890, Event type: Marriage registration, Registration details: 1891/C/1098, Spouse: Joseph Newton
3. ↑ QLD BDM Death Registration details: Emily Newton, Event date: 15/06/1947, Event type: Death registration, Date of birth: 1870, Registration details: 1947/B/11989, Mother: Sarah Anne Crewe, Father/parent: Thomas Crewe

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