Can anyone help fing Edwin and Elizabeth Newby?

[junev]

Hi Sandra,

Find My Past - a pay to view site.

Junev

[lulabell]

Hi
Edwin Newby signed up for the army(militia as it was known) in 1901 and I think that is why he is not on the census.  His form says that he signed up 11th March 1901 he was 17 years and 7 months.  A farm labourer and that he has resided in 29 quarry st Woolton.  Shortly after that in 1903 he says that he was living at 42 Ottawa St Garston.
Hope that helps

[garstonite]

Just to let you know it was called Otway Street (not Ottawa)...my mother was born there, number 64....so 8 doors away from my family...they would have known each other very well ....allan

[lulabell]

Hi
Thanks, but I did know that. I was spelling it as edwin did on his army letters it.  His hand writing and spelling was very good, that was why i was suprised he spelt it the way he did.

[lulabell]

Hi
The Edwin that was born in 1863, not sure but I'm thinking he may have changed name.  Maybe Edward, and switched between the two names.

[SoupDragon64]

Thanks both,

That's very interesting and useful.  Sorry not to reply sooner, I have not been too well so not on here.

That might be Edwin, as I have some baptism records for his children later on, and he is listed as a cowman, so he may well have been an agricultural labourer earlier on.

Didn't know he lived in Ottaway Street.  I have his census listing from 1901, then nothing after, but it is his father and mother I am looking for, not him. 

Which letters or papers are you referring to? I only have a copy of some army papers with basic details, such as his name and unit/batallion, so it would be interesting to know of any more and where I could access them.

Garsonite, I probably know/recognise your family name as I still live in Garston.

Thanks
Sandra

[tracklet]

Sandra, I'm descended from James Pye through his eldest son from his first marriage, so I've read the posts with interest.  Edwin Newby (1862 - 1901) and his sibling Emma (1862 -1876) are step siblings to some of my Pyes and half siblings to others. I'll check and  see if what I've gleaned about Edwin and Edwin James Miles takes you any further forward.

[tracklet]

Sandra, Edwin Miles Newby, married to Sarah (Ellen)  was living at 16 Chapel Place in the 1911 census with sons Edgar and Harold. Ref is Much Woolton,05, Page 78.

[SoupDragon64]

Hello,
Thank you for this, it was posted the day before I was due to move house and now I am on holiday for a short while.  I have some information about the Pye family but it is in storage until I am home and settled in to my new place, I will get it out then and post here for you.

It is good to know about Edwin and Sarah living in Much Woolton, as that is where she is from.  I knew of their son Harold (in fact I remember him from when I was a child) and their other children, but I did not know of an Edgar, so that is really helpful.

Thanks again,
Sandra