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Sarah Anne Newsome
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TitleSarah Anne Newsome
Alternative NameSarah Anne Tresidder
SummaryA woman of Selwyn who signed the 1893 Suffrage Petition
Description1892 Suffrage Petition - page 449/255
1893 Suffrage Petition - page 185 and possibly also page 2
First NameSarah
Middle NameAnne
Last NameNewsome
Date of Birth23 March 1847
Place of BirthDewsbury, Yorkshire, England
Date of Death24 December 1932
Place of DeathHastings, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
Age at Death85
Parents or Next of KinGeorge Newsome
Grace Evans
William Tresidder
Mary Tresidder
Martha Tresidder
Other Biographical InformationSarah Ann was born 23 March 1847, daughter of George Newsome and Grace in Dewsbury, Yorkshire. At the time her father George was a clothier. Grace died in 1853 and George, aged 49, along with Sarah Ann and her sisters Elizabeth and Emma sailed in 1863 on board the "Chariot of Fame". Also on board was William Tresidder, born 1841 in Cornwall. Sarah and William married in 1866 and by 1873 were in East Malvern. William advertised his farm and shop for sale in 1878 as he was returning to England but he was back in 1879 and in 1883 Commissioned the building of a Hotel at Annat. Sadly there was a fire in 1888 after an unattended candle set fire to curtains. It was only Sarah's quick actions in tearing down the curtains and beating the flames out, burning her hands very badly, that saved the building. The following year was a bad one for the family. Perhaps the damage to the hotel had been worse than thought for in January 1889 William was declared bankrupt and all his property including the house in Sheffield was put up for sale to pay his debts. Even more tragically, Frederick William, their "only and dearly-beloved son" died September 13th, aged fourteen years and five months. Their first son William George had died at nine weeks in 1867.
A few years later in 1891 there was a more happy occasion when Mary, one of their twin daughters, married James Heighway. They were both members of the Annat Band of Hope and it was as Mrs Heighway that Mary signed the Suffrage petitions. (cf her page). The family had been involved from the beginning of the group, with both Mary and Martha playing the organ for meetings. The date chosen for the marriage, March 3rd, was also the 25th Wedding anniversary of William and Sarah. Sarah Anne signed the 1892 Suffrage petition on page 449/255 and then the 1893 Suffrage Petition on page 185 and also on page 2, but did not manage enroll to vote in the election. After the bankruptcy, William had been working as a contractor and the family left the district around 1895 for Hastings where daughter Mary and her husband were living. In 1896 they appear on the Electoral Roll, William's occupation is given as Hawker, Sarah's is "domestic duties" and Martha is a dressmaker. By 1900 William is a grocery storekeeper in Ellison Road, doing well enough that in 1905 he and Sarah were able to "return to the old country". Such trips to visit family in England were both an affirmation that they had "made it" and a farewell to family they would never see again. William died in 1920 and Sarah twelve years later on Christmas Eve 1932. She was buried with William in the Hastings cemetery, in a plot adjacent to where her daughter Martha had been buried in 1909. Earlier in the year in March, she had attended the wedding of her granddaughter Rona wearing a stylish black satin and grey lace emsemble and must have been happy at the way her family had recovered from earlier tragedy.
Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 3944, 15 March 1878, Page 4
Lyttelton Times, Volume LX, Issue 7069, 25 October 1883, Page 4
Star (Christchurch), Issue 6255, 4 June 1888, Page 3
Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7265, 26 January 1889, Page 8
Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 8899, 16 September 1889, Page 4
Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7821, 26 March 1891, Page 5
Hastings Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 4888, 22 April 1905, Page 2
Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 169, 2 July 1920, Page 4
https://hastingsdc.discovereverafter.com/profile/25254899




1893 Suffrage Petition - page 185 and possibly also page 2









Grace Evans
William Tresidder
Mary Tresidder
Martha Tresidder

A few years later in 1891 there was a more happy occasion when Mary, one of their twin daughters, married James Heighway. They were both members of the Annat Band of Hope and it was as Mrs Heighway that Mary signed the Suffrage petitions. (cf her page). The family had been involved from the beginning of the group, with both Mary and Martha playing the organ for meetings. The date chosen for the marriage, March 3rd, was also the 25th Wedding anniversary of William and Sarah. Sarah Anne signed the 1892 Suffrage petition on page 449/255 and then the 1893 Suffrage Petition on page 185 and also on page 2, but did not manage enroll to vote in the election. After the bankruptcy, William had been working as a contractor and the family left the district around 1895 for Hastings where daughter Mary and her husband were living. In 1896 they appear on the Electoral Roll, William's occupation is given as Hawker, Sarah's is "domestic duties" and Martha is a dressmaker. By 1900 William is a grocery storekeeper in Ellison Road, doing well enough that in 1905 he and Sarah were able to "return to the old country". Such trips to visit family in England were both an affirmation that they had "made it" and a farewell to family they would never see again. William died in 1920 and Sarah twelve years later on Christmas Eve 1932. She was buried with William in the Hastings cemetery, in a plot adjacent to where her daughter Martha had been buried in 1909. Earlier in the year in March, she had attended the wedding of her granddaughter Rona wearing a stylish black satin and grey lace emsemble and must have been happy at the way her family had recovered from earlier tragedy.
Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 3944, 15 March 1878, Page 4
Lyttelton Times, Volume LX, Issue 7069, 25 October 1883, Page 4
Star (Christchurch), Issue 6255, 4 June 1888, Page 3
Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7265, 26 January 1889, Page 8
Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 8899, 16 September 1889, Page 4
Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7821, 26 March 1891, Page 5
Hastings Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 4888, 22 April 1905, Page 2
Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 169, 2 July 1920, Page 4
https://hastingsdc.discovereverafter.com/profile/25254899

Sarah Anne Newsome. Selwyn Stories, accessed 17/02/2025, https://selwynstories.selwynlibraries.co.nz/nodes/view/5684