Can’t find any birth record or much family background for this GGMother.
[Family story is that she was from a family of gaolers, from Usk, Monmouthshire – is this true?]
10 Dec 1883, Married Henry James Day, Register Office, Newport.
On MC: age 22, name, ‘Emily Griffiths.’ Residence ‘59 Marches Road, Newport’. Father’s name: ‘James Griffiths,’ a ‘Sawyer’, [belies family story about Usk gaolers].
19 Dec 1884, first child, Maud Emily, BC residence ‘59 Marches Road, Newport.’
1 Nov 1888, second daughter, Beatrice, BC residence ‘48 William Street, Newport. On this BC, Emily is listed as ‘Emily Day, late Addis, formerly Griffiths.’
If, when she married Henry in 1883 she was remarrying as a widow / divorcee (rare then but why a Register office marriage!?), no record of marriage between an ‘Addis’ and a ‘Griffiths’, during the period 1870-1883 found yet. [Can anyone else find one for me?]
1891 Census – Emily, Maud and Beatrice only, at Nelson St, Newport:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4KRM-XMMcan’t find husband Henry James Day. [Where was he?]
1 Mar 1895 third child William Henry Day [registered in Newport.]
c1895? family went to Valencia, Spain to manage a ‘Patent Fuel Works’
[I know what PF is but are there any experts on the 1890s Spanish patent fuel industry
and where this might have been or where they lived exactly?)
c1896-7? Shipwrecked on way home at Cabo de Gata near Nijar, south-east of Almeria on the south-east coast of Spain and lost everything. [What ship was it? What was the date?]
I have no idea how they managed to return to the UK – they were penniless. [Any thoughts or suggestions where there may be evidence?]
1901 Census entire family (5) resident: 5 Redland St, Newport, Emily’s birthplace: ‘Monmouthshire, Usk’,
1911 Census (parents plus William Henry only) resident at 54 Caerleon Rd, Newport.
C1911-12 Family (parents plus William Henry only) emigrated to NZ.
15 Aug 1914 Emily died Auckland, New Zealand, buried at Waikumete Cemetery; her age on contemporary memorials is 52; again, this places birth date around 1861-3.
[When and where was she born? Who were her parental family etc?]
Thanks in advance to any experts out there who can help me unravel this one. Peter
