Emily Sarah Danton 1875 - 1911

Emily Sarah Danton 1875 - 1911

Emily Sarah Danton was my paternal great grandmother.  She was born on 2nd October 1875 in Nonington in Kent.  Nonington is a small village, almost half way between Canterbury and Dover, in the district of Eastry.

The first census upon which Emily appears is that for 1881.  She is living with her paternal grandparents, William and Sarah Danton, in Uffington, Goodnestone in Kent.  Uffington may be Uffington Court Farm as Emily's grandfather was an agricultural labourer.

1881 census for Emily Danton (courtesy of The National Archives and Ancestry)

The 1891 census for Emily was quite difficult to find as it has her last name is given as Danson rather than Danton.  On it she is living as a household domestic servant in the house of the Cooper family.  The family live in, the rather grandly named, Bramling Court in Bramling Street in the village of Ickham in Kent.  It appears that her elder sister, Matilda, is also a servant in the same household.  Matilda is the cook in the house.  I wonder if Matilda was able to secure the servant post for Emily.

1891 census Emily and Matilda Danton (courtesy of The National Archives and Ancestry)

As far as I can make out Emily had nine siblings.  They were as follows:

Matilda Ann 1874 - ?
Emma 1876 - 1939
Eliza 1877 - 1939
Annie 1880 - ?
Elizabeth 1882 - 1883
Alice 1884 - 1956
Harry 1886 - 1970
Albert 1889 - 1915
William George 1897 - 1918

By the time of the 1901 census Emily had married William George Newport.  The couple were living at 1 St John's Street in Margate.

1901 census Emily and William Newport

1 St John's Street, Margate, Kent

The photo above is the house at 1 St John's Street.  I think it may be Daisy standing outside.  The house was demolished at some point in the mid 1970s.  My Dad remembers the house with great fondness.  He has a lot of happy memories from his childhood there.

On the 1911 census the couple are still living in the same house in Margate but this time their daughter, my grandmother Daisy, has been born.

1911 census Emily and William Newport (courtesy of The National Archives and Ancestry)

Sadly Emily died the same year as the 1911 census.  She died on 13th November.  Her death certificate states that she died of cancer of the womb and had a secondary cancer of the liver.  She was only 36 years old.

1911 Death Certificate of Emily Sarah Newport (nee Danton)

The image below shows the grave where Emily and her husband, William, and daughter, Daisy, are buried.  The grave is in Margate Cemetery on the Manston Road.  Unfortunately no one who is alive, in my family, remembers Emily because she died before they were all born.