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Belinda Hudgell Borley 1847 - 1882
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This mysterious young lady has eluded us for quite some time, and now we think we have unravelled the details about her...... she is -
Belinda Kate Newman nee Hudgell Borley
She was sometimes known as Kate, and for a long time we thought her name was Alander Kate Hudgell or Borley, it was only through ordering her birth certificate that we found that the Belinda had mistakenly been transcribed as Alander.
Belinda was born to Rachel Borley c.1847 in Suffolk, England where her father John Hudgell had died earlier that year.
Rachel bought Belinda and her two other children - John and Mary Ann up on her own, she never married and became a shopkeeper in Bury St. Edmunds until her death in 1887.
In the 1851 Belinda and mother Rachel were living with her parents at Church Farm Stanningfield, Suffolk along with the large family of siblings of Rachel's.
In 1861 Rachel was still unmarried and living with her
parents but Belinda had moved out to work for her uncle Alfred Rutter in his
family business of Bakers and confectioners. John her father was a harness maker and the son of Jonathon Hudgell Innkeeper and harness maker of the Greyhound Stowmarket Suffolk and Temperance his wife.
John sadly died at the early age of 27 before he could marry Rachel the mother of his child.
At the age of 18 Belinda married Charles Frederick Newman from Richmond, Surrey on 21st July 1866 at St Matthias in Richmond
They travelled to Australia on 21st January 1870 on the S.S. Somersetshire from Gravesend arriving in Australia on 30th March 1870.
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Belinda Hudgell Borley and husband Charles Newman |
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S.S. Somersetshire Log of the journey:
On the passenger manifest they are listed as:
Charles Newman age 25 farmer Kate Newman age 21 Ellen Newman - child
Their children were:
Ellen Newman (1869 - 1942) born in Cambridge England who was still a baby when they travelled to Australia. Ellen married John Emanuel and had 9 children |
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Sarah Elizabeth Newman (30 Jun 1870 - ) who Kate was pregnant with on their journey out to Australia - she married William Pengelly Shambrook and had 13 children | |
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John Newman (1873 - 1960) served in WW1 but never married he lived and died in Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
Jessica (Jessie) Newman (1875 - 1943) never married but had 3 children
Charles Newman (1877 -1966 ) never married
George Newman (1879 - 1879) died aged 8 days |
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Belinda Kate Newman died on 31st January 1882 aged 33 and Charles Frederick Newman died in 1916
Belinda and Charles Newman's grave in Melbourne Cemetery Australia
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Thanks very much for the help and permission to use
the photograph from Belinda's
descendents in Australia
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