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Newton Greenwood

Generation 5 back

Born

Wadsworth, Yorkshire, England

Died

October 6, 1923, at 11:30am at home at 1824 West 4th Street in Chester, Pennsylvania, USA

Married

Abt. 1869

Migration

1896: Departed from Liverpool, England aboard the S.S

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Family

Father

James Greenwood

no.

Child in this line

James Edward Greenwood

Spouse

Mary J ______

Children

Amy Anne/Anna Greenwood
b. October 30, 1871, in Halifax, Yorkshire, England
m. Joseph Alfred Houghton, December 24, 1900, in Chester, PA
Florence Edith “Florrie” Greenwood
b. July 1877 in England
m. George T. McCormick, September 19, 1900, in Chester, PA
Gertrude Greenwood
b. December 1887 in England

In brief

Born July 215, 16/813, 184513/4610/4715, 16 in Wadsworth, Yorkshire, England. 1896: Departed from Liverpool, England aboard the S.S. He married Abt and worked as worsted weaving foreman. He died October 6, 1923, at 11:30am at home at 1824 West 4th Street in Chester, Pennsylvania, USA.

Life story

A Yorkshire Weaving Family

Newton Greenwood was born around 1845–1846 in Wadsworth, Yorkshire, England, and worked his way up in the local worsted-weaving trade to foreman. He emigrated to the United States in 1896, sailing from Liverpool aboard the S.S. Pennland to Philadelphia, and continued as a loom fixer in the Chester, Pennsylvania mills until his retirement around 1920, finally completing his naturalization that same year. He died at home in Chester on October 6, 1923.

At a glance

Work

Worsted Weaving Foreman, Loom Boss, Loom Fixer, Weaver, Retired

Sources (16)

Boyd’s Directory of Delaware County, Penna (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: C. E. Howe Co., 1897), 172; “U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995,” digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2469/images/dvm_lochist000487-00084_0 : accessed 11 September 2023); (1897) 161.
Spencer’s Chester City Directory (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John Spencer, Job Printer and Bookbinder, 1898), 190; “U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995,” digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2469/images/dvm_lochist000487-00084_0 : accessed 11 September 2023); (1898) 209.
Boyd’s Directory of Delaware County (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: C. E. Howe Co., 1899), 172; “U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995,” digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2469/images/dvm_lochist000488-00081_1 : accessed 11 September 2023); (1899) 161.
Spencer’s Chester City Directory (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John Spencer, Job Printer and Bookbinder, 1904), 185; “U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995,” digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2469/images/3059773 : accessed 11 September 2023); (1904) 124.
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Spencer’s Chester City Directory (Chester, Pennsylvania: R. L. Polk & Co., 1917), 354; “U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995,” digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2469/images/3060146 : accessed 12 September 2023); (1917) 171.
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1900 United States Federal Census, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Chester City 9th Ward, enumeration district 157, sheet 1-B, dwelling 14, family 14, Newton Greenwood family; NARA microfilm publication T623; Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7602/images/4115080_00042 : accessed 12 September 2023).
1910 United States Federal Census, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Chester 9th Ward, enumeration district 120, sheet 1-A, dwelling 3, family 3, Newton Greenwood family; NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 1339; Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7884/images/4450126_00364 : accessed 12 September 2023).
Death Notice for “Newton Greenwood,” Chester Times (Chester, PA), 8 October 1923, page 14, col 1; web archives (https://www.newspapers.com/image/5388002 : accessed 12 September 2023).
Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Registration District Number 9-481, death certificate no. 105143 (1923), Newton Greenwood; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics.
“1891 England Census,” database, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6598/images/WRYRG12_3591_3593-0200 : accessed 14 September 2023), entry for Newton Greenwood family, District 37, Plymouth Grove, Halifax, Yorkshire, p. 13, no. 81.
Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Naturalization Service, Record of Declaration of Intention, 14:60, Newton Greenwood, 1920; Delaware County Archives, Lima, Pennsylvania.
Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Naturalization Service, Record of Declaration of Intention, _:100, Newton Greenwood, 1909; Delaware County Archives, Lima, Pennsylvania.