Sarah (MacKey) Newdick (1820 - 1870)

Born 25 May 1820 in Corker, County Donegal, Ireland

Wife of Richard Newdick — married 1843 in New Zealand

Descendants

Died 19 Jun 1870 at age 50 in Auckland, New Zealand

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Biography

Birth Sarah 25 May 1820 in Donegal, Corker, (Killaghtee) James Micky and Elizabeth Cassidy. ^[1]

Sarah was born 25 May 1820 in Corker, Killaghtee, Donegal. She was the daughter of James MacKey and Elizabeth Cassidy.

Sarah (MacKey) Newdick migrated from Ireland to New Zealand.

Sarah emigrated from Ireland to New Zealand with her brother Hugh in 1841,

Sarah and Hugh “Mickey” sailed from Liverpool, England, to Sydney, Australia, on the United Kingdom, arriving on 7 September 1841.

Hugh and Sarah probably then sailed on board the Shamrock in 25 November 1841 for Auckland arriving on 12 December 1841

Intention to marry

Date of certificate ; 20 Mar 1843

name & surname of parties: Sarah Mackey & Richard Newdick

church where marriage was to be solemnised: Old Snt Pauls

name & relation of person giving consentin case of a minor  : Joseph Watson Hugh Mackey

She married Richard Newdick circa 1843. They had 6 children.

Her husband passed away in 1867.

Three years later Sarah passed away quite suddenly, in 1870, at the age of between 48 and 50. ^[2] Her youngest child would have been aged just 13. She had, at the time of her death, been a patient of a lunatic asylum, and an inquest was conducted into her death on 21 June. After evidence was heard and an examination done by Dr Goldsborough, the jury's verdict was given as "Death from natural causes." ^[3] Her funeral was conducted by Rev Dudley two days later and her burial recorded in the Anglican St Paul's register. ^[4]

Death Notice in the New Zealand Herald - 1870

NEWDICK - On June 19th, at the Lunatic Asylum, Sarah Newdick, beloved wife of the late Richard Newdick, of Newmarket, aged 48 years. The funeral will leave Wellesley-street West, four doors below the Albion Hotel, on Wednesday, 23rd, at 3 o'clock p.m. Friends will please accept this invitation. (New Zealand Herald 21 June 1870, also published in Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 4003, 21 June 1870)

Burial

Symonds Street Cemetery , Symonds Street, Auckland, New Zealand ^[4]

Sources

Footnotes and citations:

1. ↑ .Film 1126139 Batch 7729169 Film read at LDS centre ,Totara Park, 2002
2. ↑ Death Registration no. 1870/7541 for Sarah Newdick, death date 20 Jun 1870, age 50 yrs. Accessed at Births, Deaths & Marriages (online database) Department of Internal Affairs, New Zealand, on 9 Nov 2017
3. ↑ News reports of Inquest The Daily Southern Cross., Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 4004, 22 June 1870 and The Evening Star. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1870., Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 141, 22 June 1870
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Auckland City Symonds St Cemetery records

Source list:

• http://www.newdickfamilytreeyorkshire.co.uk/newdick-continued-1/
• http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/NEW-ZEALAND/2004-02/1078094731
• News paper notices, Birth & death records