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Record #7842
Name :
: Selina NEWBOLD (1857 - )


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BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 1857

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
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Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Lancashire, Liverpool
Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 25 Jul 1870
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Prussian

Placement Family
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Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
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Agency
: Maria Rye
NotesA birth registration was found for Selina Newbold: Year of Registration: 1857; Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun; District: West Derby; County: Lancashire; Volume: 8b; Page: 372. Parents: Joseph Newbold and Harriet Walker, married 1845 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England.

A death registration was found for Joseph Newbold: Year of Registration: 1859; Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep; District: Liverpool (1837-1934); County: Lancashire; Volume: 8b; Page: 76.

In 1870, Selina Newbold, 13, arrived in Quebec, Canada with a party of 143 young people, mostly girls with Maria Rye, en route to Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada.

From Gail Collins:

Selina is mentioned in letter from Annie McMaster to Miss Rye, probably dated late 1870, early 1871.)

"There is a lot of the girls live near me, and two of them goes to the presbyterian Sunday school, those two girls that lives with the two Mrs?s Jeffries, Selina Newbold and Mary E McCabe, they are in the same school as I am, and in the same class." [EDITORS NOTE: These girls all came on the same ship.]

Letter from Selina Newbold to Maria Rye: What the Children Say About Canada - Kirkdale - pg 44-45St. Catherine?s,

"Feb. 14th.

Dear Miss Rye:

I write these few lines to you to ask you would you please tell me where my sisters is, for if you would much a blaise to you, inded. Dear Miss Rye, would you tell me were Jane Tatlock is, and how she his, for I like to know, and Mary E McCabe and Annie McMaster send there kind love to you, and I ham verry glad that you got me such a good place, for I very happie inded, and I would like to see my sister if I could get to see her, but I don?t think I could. Dear Miss Rye, are you quite well, for I like to know, because I heard that you was very sick inded, and are you quite well now? I hope you are. Dear Miss Rye, have you wrote any more out of our school, for if you have would you tell me, for I like to know very much inded, so I have no more times write any more, so this is all I write. So no more from Your afectanet Scoolar, Selina Newbold. So good night and god blest you."


The 1878 Rye Report - #114 states that Selina returned to England.

On February 15, 1880, at the Church of St.Nicholas, Parish of Liverpool, Lancashire, England, a marriage was registered between Selina Newbold, 23, spinster, daughter of Joseph Newbold (a Cart Owner); and Abram Hurstfield, bachelor, age 24, Machine man, son of Jacob Hurstfield (a Dentist). Both Selina and Abram are shown as residing on St. James Street.

Abram and Selina Newbold Hurstfield had at least 9 children: Emily Hurstfield, born about 1879; Florence Hurstfield, born about 1881; Helen Hurstfield born about 1884; William Hurstfield, born about 1886; Herbert Hurstfield, born about 1888; Henry Hurstfield born about 1890; Percy Hurstfield born about 1892; Frederick Hurstfield born about 1896; and Ada Hurstfield born about 1901.

Selina Newbold Hurstfield died in 1909 in West Derby, Lancashire, England. 
ContributorsCreated : 2009-05-10 06:29:04 / From original database

Last Updated : 2011-03-17 14:29:48 /

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IDNameDOBPlace of birthArrivals & ShipsDest.AgencyFamily links
7730 NEWBOLD, Caroline1859ENG, LAN, Liverpool Jul 1870 : Prussian CAN Maria Rye  
3369 NEWBOLD, James1896ENG, WAR, Birmingham Feb 1910 : Corsican CAN Unknown  
2967 NEWBOLD, Lawrence Edmund1896ENG, WAR, Coventry May 1911 : Corsican CAN Father Ross  
3189 NEWBOLD, Mary Ellen1890ENG,     Oct 1900 : Tunisian CAN Barnardos  
7842 NEWBOLD, Selina1857ENG, LAN, Liverpool Jul 1870 : Prussian CAN Maria Rye