Emma Levitt
(1825-1893)

Emma Levitt (later Emma Newman) was the oldest of the nine children of John Levitt and his wife Elizabeth Skeel of Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, England.

Emma married blacksmith Charles Newman, in 1847 and the couple are noted as living on the High Street of Swaffham Bulbeck with at least six children.

Emma pre-deceased her husband Charles in 1893, after which he appears as a widower living in Newmarket with their son Elias and his young family on the 1901 census.

Life Events

Born

• circa 1825 in Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, England.

Baptised

• 18th September 1825 at St. Mary's Church, Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, England.

Married

• Charles Newman (1820-1906) on 9th August 1847 at St. Mary's Church, Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, England.

Children

• Alfred Newman (1849-1933) married Harriet Cooper (1854-1925)
• Charles Newman (1851-?)
• Rebecca Newman (1852-?)
• Daniel Silas Newman (1855-1926) married Rhoda Hart (1859-1894), and later to Elizabeth Wilson (1861-?)
• Harriet Newman (1858-?)
• Elias Newman (1863-1944) married Eliza Steed (1872-?)

Census and Residence

• 1841: 15yrs, Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1851: 25yrs, Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1861: 35yrs, Village Street, Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1871: 45yrs, Mill Lane, Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1881: 55yrs, High Street, Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 1891: 66yrs, High Street, Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, England.

Employment

• 1851: Blacksmith's Wife

Death

• circa March 1893 in Cambridgeshire, England, aged 68 years.

Burial

• 4th March 1893 in grave B55 at Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, England.