Family Life
Isaac was the youngest of three sons born to Joseph and Mary Newell. Joseph, a 22-year-old labourer using the full name of Joseph Edward Savage Newell, married Higham-born Mary Anne Goodger, a servant, also 22, at St Mary’s Church in Higham, on 3 June 1848.
Joseph’s father was a mariner on board the HMS Genoa which, after undergoing repairs at Chatham Dockyard between 1816 and 1818, served as a guard ship in Chatham in 1821. Mary, the daughter of labourer Isaac Goodger, was baptised at St Mary’s Church in June 1827. Her father Isaac originally lived in Lower Higham, but by 1871 an agricultural labourer of that name was living in the Union Workhouse in Strood. Isaac Goodger apparently lived in the workhouse until his death in 1883.
Isaac’s oldest brother Joseph Edward was baptised in Strood on 20 May 1849, and William James was baptised on 23 February 1851, at St Margaret’s Church, Rochester.
The boys’ mother, Mary, died aged 28 while the family were living in Taylor’s Lane. She was buried at St Nicholas Church, on 4 September 1854.
Seventeen months later, on 7 February 1856, Joseph married Chatham-born Susanna Elizabeth Chapman, 22, at St Nicholas Church, Strood. Their marriage appears to be childless.
By the time of the 1871 census, Joseph and Susanna were living in West Malling with Susanna’s father, and all of the boys had left home.
In 1881, Joseph, described as what appears to be a fish ‘hawker’ (a street vendor rather than a shopkeeper), and wife Susanna were living in one of eight Jupps Cottages, in The Street, Halling, with a two-month-old visitor and two lodgers. Joseph Edward Savage Newell was buried at St Nicholas Church, Strood on 16 December 1885. He died at the Strood Union, which suggests he was in the workhouse. No burial record for Susanna has yet been found.
Joseph’s father was a mariner on board the HMS Genoa which, after undergoing repairs at Chatham Dockyard between 1816 and 1818, served as a guard ship in Chatham in 1821. Mary, the daughter of labourer Isaac Goodger, was baptised at St Mary’s Church in June 1827. Her father Isaac originally lived in Lower Higham, but by 1871 an agricultural labourer of that name was living in the Union Workhouse in Strood. Isaac Goodger apparently lived in the workhouse until his death in 1883.
Isaac’s oldest brother Joseph Edward was baptised in Strood on 20 May 1849, and William James was baptised on 23 February 1851, at St Margaret’s Church, Rochester.
The boys’ mother, Mary, died aged 28 while the family were living in Taylor’s Lane. She was buried at St Nicholas Church, on 4 September 1854.
Seventeen months later, on 7 February 1856, Joseph married Chatham-born Susanna Elizabeth Chapman, 22, at St Nicholas Church, Strood. Their marriage appears to be childless.
By the time of the 1871 census, Joseph and Susanna were living in West Malling with Susanna’s father, and all of the boys had left home.
In 1881, Joseph, described as what appears to be a fish ‘hawker’ (a street vendor rather than a shopkeeper), and wife Susanna were living in one of eight Jupps Cottages, in The Street, Halling, with a two-month-old visitor and two lodgers. Joseph Edward Savage Newell was buried at St Nicholas Church, Strood on 16 December 1885. He died at the Strood Union, which suggests he was in the workhouse. No burial record for Susanna has yet been found.
Isaac Newell (courtesy of Claire Newell, Newell family archive)
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Isaac's baptism record (courtesy of Medway Archive Centre)
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St Mary's Church in Higham (courtesy of Medway Archive Centre)
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St Nicholas Church in Strood (courtesy of Medway Archive Centre)
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