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John NEWTON

1872 – 1965 · Finghall, Leyburn, North Yorkshire
Partner: Jane METCALFE
Father: Isaac NEWTON · Mother: Ann CAYGILL
👶Birth
04/11/1872
🏛️ Secret ballot introduced
Finghall, Leyburn, North Yorkshire 📍 Birth Civil Registration Index
1939 NHS Register
Baptism
05/11/1872
St Andrew Parish Church, Finghall, North Yorkshire 📍 Baptism Records 📎 Baptism
🏠Lived (9)
1881
Finghall Post Office/Newton Cottage, West Moor Lane, Finghall, Leyburn, North Yorkshire 📍 1881 Census 📎 Census
💼Occupation (9)
1881
Scholar 1881 Census
🏠Lived (19)
1891
🏛️ Free elementary education
Finghall Post Office/Newton Cottage, West Moor Lane, Finghall, Leyburn, North Yorkshire 📍 1891 Census 📎 Census
💼Occupation (19)
1891
Block Clerk 1891 Census
💒Marriage (25)
24/03/1897
🏛️ Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
Jane METCALFE
Hawes Parish Church, Hawes, North Yorkshire 📍 Marriage Certificate 📎 Marriage
💼Occupation (25)
1897
Railway Man Marriage Certificate
🏠Lived (27)
1899
🏛️ Second Boer War
28 Abbey Street, York, North Yorkshire 📍 Baptism Records
🏠Lived (29)
1901
🏛️ Death of Queen Victoria
36 Cleveland Street, Micklegate, York, North Yorkshire 📍
with Jane METCALFE 1901 Census 📎 Census
💼Occupation (29)
1901
Railway Guard 1901 Census
🏠Lived (39)
1911
🏛️ National Insurance Act
65 Russell Street, York, North Yorkshire 📍
with Jane METCALFE 1911 Census 📎 Census
🏠Lived (49)
1921
🏛️ Irish Free State established
65 Russell Street, York, North Yorkshire 📍 1921 Census 📎 Census
💼Occupation (49)
1921
Station Inspector for North Eastern Railway Co, York 1921 Census
🏠Lived (65)
1937
109 Bishopthorpe Road, York, North Yorkshire 📍 Probate Index
🏠Lived (67)
1939
🏛️ Second World War
123 Bishopthorpe Road, York, North Yorkshire 📍 1939 NHS Register 📎 1939 Register
💼Occupation (67)
1939
Retired Assistant Station Master 1939 NHS Register
💼Occupation (75)
1947
🏛️ Indian independence and partition
Retired Assistant Station Master Ken Starkie
Probate Index
📝Will (76)
21/06/1948
🏛️ National Health Service launches
Appointed sons as Executors. Left his house to Sidney Isaac and residue equally to both sons Will 📎 Will
✝️Death (93)
15/12/1965
123 Bishopthorpe Road, York, North Yorkshire 📍 Probate Index
⚖️Probate
09/03/1966
🏛️ England wins the World Cup
York, North Yorkshire 📍
Effects £8800 Executors: John Newton & Sidney Isaac Newton Probate Index
Grant of Probate
📎 Probate Grant 📎 Probate
Children with Jane METCALFE
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b. 1898, 28 Abbey Street, York, North Yorkshire · d. 1976, Broadway, 28 Masham Road, Bedale, North Yorkshire · m. 1928 Phyllis Grace SCAWBY
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b. 1902, York, North Yorkshire · d. 1966, The City General Hospital, York, North Yorkshire · m. 1932 Alice Mary JENNINGS
Notes

Notes from Ken Starkie:

In 1950 Margaret Brickland and her mother Ann Ingelson met John Newton. He became Station Master at York. He has two married sisters who were widows living at Finghall.

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