John NEWELL 1822-1882 & Phoebe HALL 1831-1889

1860s Digby, Hotspur, Dartmoor, Victoria, Mt Gambier, South Australia

John NEWELL b. 1822, Massingham, Norfolk, England, son of John NEWELL and Ann ___ was married in 1849 in Norfolk, England to Phoebe HALL, b. 1831, Hertfordshire, England, daughter of Richard HALL and Catherine WEST.

John & Phoebe NEWELL emigrated to Australia on the 'Dominion' in 1852 along with a son Reuben. A daughter Martha was born on the voyage out to Australia and they arrived in Victoria in October 1852.

It appears from the birth of additional children that they went to Mt Gambier in South Australia and then back to the Digby, Hotspur and Dartmoor areas of south-west Victoria in the 1860s. John NEWELL and Phoebe HALL had the following family:

  1. Reuben NEWELL b. 1851, Ickleford, HRT, Eng, m1. Edith Isabel DOTHIE, m2. Clara BILBROUGH
  2. Martha NEWELL b. 1852, Atlantic Ocean per 'Dominion', d. 1875, Mt Gambier, SA, Aus
  3. Mary Ann NEWELL b. 1853, Mt Gambier, SA, m. Theodore HOLTZMANN
  4. James NEWELL b. 1855, Mt Gambier, SA, m. Agnes ELLIS
  5. Hannah NEWELL b. 1857, Mt Gambier, SA, m. John LITTLE
  6. John NEWELL b. 1859, Mt Gambier, SA, m. Catherine Cooper BOWDEN
  7. Elizabeth NEWELL b. 1861, Coanyenne, Vic, d. 1867, Mt Gambier, SA
  8. Edith NEWELL b. 1863, "Ardgarton" Station, Digby, Vic, m. James Toulmin MORRIS
  9. Sarah NEWELL b. 1865, Dartmoor, Vic, m. Robert Samuel WADE
  10. Matilda NEWELL b. 1870, Mt Gambier, SA, m. Isaac William Harris WILLIAMSON
  11. Thomas NEWELL b. 1871, Mt Gambier, SA, d. 1886
  12. Gertrude NEWELL b. ca 1872, Mt Gambier, SA
  13. Benjamin NEWELL b. 1873, Mt Gambier, SA, m. Elizabeth Ann BEASLEY




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