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Fancy sorting out this lady? I was given this character on a school trip to Abbeydale industrial hamlet today. She was real but that is all I can realy be sure of. My character was supposed to be the wife of a cutlery manufacturer during the victorian period in Sheffield Yorks. I would like to take a more rounded character to school for the kids to look at. I was dressed as a Victorian as were the kiddies. A great day out. Elaine. Ps I'm Shattered so will ba abed soon tomorrow will do

You mean this one?

Deaths Mar 1854
Newbold Averilda Jane Ecclesall B. 9c 148

Rose

Just googled Averilda Newbold and found this,

http://history.youle.info/fh_material/Rodgers/Rodgers.html

hope it helps.

The Victorian period spanned 60 odd years.

There's this one who is the daughter of a cutlery manufacturer. She died a spinster in 1908.

1861 England Census
about Averilsla M Newbold
Name: Averilsla M Newbold
Age: 4
Estimated birth year: abt 1857
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: Robert Newbold
Mother's Name: Emma T Newbold
Gender: Female
Where born: Ecclesall, Yorkshire, England

Civil parish: Ecclesall Bierlow
Ecclesiastical parish: Ecclesall
County/Island: Yorkshire
Country: England
Registration district: Ecclesall Bierlow
Sub-registration district: Ecclesall Bierlow
ED, institution, or vessel: 5
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 40
Household Members: Name Age
Robert Newbold 41
Emma T Newbold 38
Joseph Newbold 9
Arthur Newbold 7
Averilsla M Newbold 4
Gertrude E Newbold 3
Susan Hartley 35
Elizabeth Moss 30
Sarah Outram 18
Alice White 16


Rose

Could well be Rose,I have a Robert Newbold born 1809 on the 1881 census who was a file manufacturer, living with his son Edwin at 1 Boston St Ecclesall Bierlow aged 72. This could be her husband. BrummieHelen,tomorrow I will have a look at this it looks quite interesting. I knew I would get something from the genes search ladies and gents. Many thanks you are great. Elaine. nite nite all.

Births Sep 1857
Newbold Avr_ada Mary Ecclesall Bierlow 9C 211

Deaths Jun 1908
NEWBOLD Averilda Mary 50 Guildford 2a 68

Rose

Robert is an "American Merchant - Cutlery"

1851 England Census
about Aveulda Newbold
Name: Aveulda Newbold
Age: 26
Estimated birth year: abt 1825
Relation: Wife
Spouse's name: Robert Newbold
Gender: Female
Where born: Sheffd, Yorkshire, England

Civil parish: Ecclesall Bierlow
Ecclesiastical parish: Ecclesall
County/Island: Yorkshire
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Disability: View image

Registration district: Ecclesall Bierlow
Sub-registration district: Ecclesall Bierlow
ED, institution, or vessel: 1d
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 5
Household Members: Name Age
Robert Newbold 30
Aveulda Newbold 26
Sarah Walkinson 28
Eliza Bolsover 24
James Cope 28


Rose

It's the same Robert in 1851 and 1861. His first wife, Averilda Jane Rodgers, died and he remarried Emma Summers Young. Odd thing is, their first child was named after his dead first wife.

Rose

Paul Newbold who is their great great grandson has added Postems on FreeBMD for all the marriages and deaths.

Rose

She's also on some trees on this site.

Rose

London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
about Averilda Jane Rodgers
Name: Averilda Jane Rodgers
Spouse Name: Robert Newbold
Spouse Age: Full Age
Record Type: Marriage
Event Date: 7 Jan 1851
Parish: St Pancras Parish Church
County: Middlesex
Borough: Camden
Father Name: Maurice Rodgers
Spouse Father Name: Robert Newbold

Rose

She must have died in childbirth. She died the same quarter her son Arthur was born:

Births Mar 1854
Newbold Arthur Ecclesall B 9c 201

Rose

Great going on the school trips Elaine, but as you say, very tiring lol

Hope you are ok apart from being so shattered.

Lizx

Well havn't you done well and isn't history fascinating. What a story I will be able to tell the kiddies tomorrow. I am going to look at the Rodgers site, I am well hooked now. If any of you go to Abbydale take a school group, they do you proud it is just like turning back the clock. I really felt I was the person and the people acting out the saga were wonderful. As all the kiddies had names from this era I am going to suggest they try to find more information on line about the personalities they were acting out.
I was shattered last night. We were there 4 hrs and not still for a moment, a really wonderful exhausting day. Many many thanks to you all, bless you. Elaine.

What a great idea to link children up with history and then getting them to research the real person!

I have to confess I have never understood people who think history is boring, I have always loved reading and finding out about things that have happened.

What a name though, Averilda! I bet she wanted to shorten her name to Lilly or something like that!

Yes you are probably right. My dad wanted to call me Amarillys, glad mum talked him out of it...... Still a lily though."Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable, Elaine the lily maid of Asolat".