See also
- William NEWSTEAD's parents: Francis Frederick NEWSTEAD (1790-1857) and Clementina Joyce NIMMO (1785?-1870)
- William NEWSTEAD's siblings: Henry Keene Edward NEWSTEAD (1812-1905) and Walter George NEWSTEAD (aft1818-1899)
William Gustavus Benningfield NEWSTEAD (1814-1881)
| Name: | William Gustavus Benningfield NEWSTEAD |
| Sex: | Male |
| Father: | Francis Frederick NEWSTEAD (1790-1857) |
| Mother: | Clementina Joyce NIMMO (1785?-1870) |
Individual Events and Attributes
| Birth | 1 Feb 1814 | Joseph Street,Stepney1 |
| Baptism | 20 Jul 1814 (age 0) | St George In The East,Stepney2 |
| Census | 1841 (age 26-27) | Stepney |
| Jubilee Street William and Ann are listed with theri children Ann, Eliza (sic) and William. |
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| Occupation | Tailor, Stepney; Stepney | |
| Census | 1851 (age 36-37) | Stepney |
| Charles Street The widowed William is living with his daughters Ann, Evelina, Jane and Clementina. |
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| Census | 1861 (age 46-47) | Stepney |
| 9 High Street William and his 2nd wife, Rebecca, were heads of a large family comprising Elizabeth, Jane, Christiana (Clementina), William, Henry and Martha, together with Frederick Goodwin, a 20 year old tailor. |
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| Census | 1871 (age 56-57) | Mile End Old Town |
| 13 Burdett Road In 1871 the only member of the family not listed as a tailor or tailoress was 6 year old Alice. |
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| Census | 1881 (age 66-67) | Mile End Old town |
| 5 Maidmans Street Newly widowed Rebecca heades up a household consisting of her 42 year old stepdaughter Elizabeth and her daughter Alice, 16. |
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| Death | 1881 (age 66-67) | Mile End (1c 423) Aged 673 |
Marriage (1)
| Spouse | Ann GURNELL (1816- ) | |
| Children | Ann Martha NEWSTEAD (1836- ) | |
| Evelina NEWSTEAD (1837- ) | ||
| Elizabeth NEWSTEAD (1839-1910) | ||
| William NEWSTEAD (1840- ) | ||
| Jane Frances NEWSTEAD (1842- ) | ||
| Margaret Mary NEWSTEAD (1844- ) | ||
| Clementina NEWSTEAD (1846- ) | ||
| Martha Margaret NEWSTEAD (1847-1851) | ||
| Marriage | 12 Apr 1835 (age 21) | St Andrew Holborn |
Marriage (2)
Son: Henry Walter NEWSTEAD
| Spouse | Rebecca SAWYER (1827-1891) | |
| Children | William NEWSTEAD (1854- ) | |
| Henry Walter NEWSTEAD (1856-1929) | ||
| Martha Rebecca NEWSTEAD (1861-1865) | ||
| Alice NEWSTEAD (1864-1944) | ||
| Marriage | 17 Oct 1852 (age 38) | St Thomas Stepney |
Individual Note
William, the second son of Francis and Clementina Newstead, was born on 1 February 1814 at Joseph Street in Stepney, between Commercial Road and Cable Street. He was christened at St George's in the East, near Ratcliff Highway, not far from the Docks where his father worked as an officer in the East India Service.
By the age of thirteen he was apprenticed to a master tailor in Dursley, a Gloucestershire woollen mill town which was experiencing a boom with eight cloth mills operating during the 1820s; this proved to be short-lived, with new steam-powered machinery leading to unemployment and over-production. Mills began to close and clothiers left the industry, leaving poverty and unrest in their wake. To mark William's new apprenticeship his father gave him the engraved portrait of his uncle, the Rev Robert Newstead, who had by then returned from missionary service in Ceylon to the Methodist circuit in the Cheltenham area.
After his seven year apprenticeship William returned to London as a tailor, marrying Ann Gurnell, at St Andrew's, Holborn, in 1835. One year later Ann Martha was born, christened at St Andrews, followed by Evelina in 1837, and five more daughters by 1847. Perhaps Ann Newstead died in childbirth; she had certainly left William widowed by 1851, when he was living at 19 Charles Street, Stepney, with his young daughters Ann, Evelina, Jane and Clementina; four year old Martha was in Shadwell High Street in the care of her grandparents, Francis and Clementina Newstead.
A year later William was married again, this time to Rebecca Sawyer, a 25 year old dressmaker from Colchester. In the May of 1856 a long-awaited son arrived, Henry Walter; he was born at 4 St John Street (the home of Francis Newstead who a year earlier had written his last will and testament prior to embarking for Australia on board the merchant ship Severn). In 1861 William and Rebecca were joined by the widowed Clementina, and by 1871 they were living at 13 Burdett Road, Mile End Old Town, with two unmarried daughters from William's first marriage (Elizabeth and Clementina, both tailoresses), 14 year old Henry, apprentice to his father, and little Alice, aged six.
Ten years later William had died, a couple of months before the 1881 census, which found Rebecca living at 5 Maidman Street, off Burdett Road, with her daughters Elizabeth and Alice under the same roof as her unmarried elder sisters, Mary and Emma Sawyer, both dressmakers. Meanwhile, Henry Walter had married and was living at 51 Burdett Road with wife Ada and the first two of nine children, Ada,2, and Henry,1 year old.
Sources
| 1 | "WGB Newstead Baptismal record St George in the East Stepney 20 Jul 1814". |
| 2 | "William Gustavus Newstead baptism, 20 July 1814, St George in the East, Stepney.". Francis Newstead, the father, is described as "An Officer in the East India Service". |
| 3 | "FreeBmd". |