Henry Walter NEWSTEAD (1856-1929)

Name:	Henry Walter NEWSTEAD
Sex:	Male
Nickname:	Harry
Father:	William Gustavus Benningfield NEWSTEAD (1814-1881)
Mother:	Rebecca SAWYER (1827-1891)

Individual Events and Attributes

Birth	3 May 1856	4 St John Street,Stepney1
Census	1911 (age 54)	Seven Kings, Essex
	41 Herbert Road Henry described himself as a tailor and outfitter, and his son Harry, 31, as a boat attendant. Ivy, 18, was working as a theatre attendant. Henry's wife Ada was attending the Gibson family at 28 North Road, Seven Kings, as a nurse to their new-born baby.
Occupation		Tailor, Stepney; Stepney
Death	1 Sep 1929 (age 73)	Empress Avenue,Ilford, aged 732,3

Marriage

Spouse	Ada Elizabeth MASON (1855-1934)
Children	Ada Margaret Alice NEWSTEAD (1878-1953)
	Henry William NEWSTEAD (1880-1962)
	Lilian Rebecca NEWSTEAD (1882-1959)
	Walter Gustavus NEWSTEAD (1884-1942)
	Ralph Joseph NEWSTEAD (1886-1918)
	Daisy Florence NEWSTEAD (1889-1977)
	Mabel Winifred NEWSTEAD (1891-1975)
	Violet Elizabeth NEWSTEAD (1893-1984)
	Ivy Gladys NEWSTEAD (1897-1969)
Marriage	31 Jul 1877 (age 21)	Parish Church Stepney Middx

Individual Note

One of Harry's granddaughters remembers spending Christmas holidays at Empress Avenue as a child between six and eight years old, in the early 1920s. Times were hard, and after losing his tailor's business Harry was reduced to working on the living-room table, pressing the suits with a huge steam iron. Apparently he was living in hope of recovering some of the money owing to him. Also living in the house were his son Harry and daughter Ivy, both at that time unmarried. From the front upstairs room Ivy was running a dressmaker's business employing several girls.

Sources

1	"Family Group Record".

2	"Family Group Record Henry Walter Newstead Death ".

3	"Letter from Muriel Curtis 14 Mar 2005".