Ridgway William Newland

Rev. Ridgway William Newland (c. 1788 – 8 March 1864), frequently spelled "Ridgeway", was an English Congregationalist minister who with his large family emigrated to the young colony of South Australia, where he had a considerable influence in the Encounter Bay district. Many of his descendants were important in the history of the State. He has been called "The father of the South".^[1]

History

Newland was the minister of an Independent (as Congregationalists frequently called themselves) church of Hanley, in the Staffordshire Potteries region of England, for around 25 years. He emigrated to South Australia^[2] with his wife Martha, née Keeling, and their six children aboard the Sir Charles Forbes, arriving in June 1839. They settled in the Encounter Bay area, with a number of members of his congregation. He purchased a large property and after considerable effort established a successful farm. He built a church at Port Elliot.

He assisted T. Q. Stow at the opening service of the new Freeman Street (now a section of Gawler Place) chapel in 1840, and again at the opening of the new Franklin Street schoolhouse in January 1845.^[3]

He left to visit England early January 1845, perhaps on the Palmyra,^[4][5] and returned aboard the Kingston in January 1846, accompanied by a son.^[6]

He died of injuries sustained when the mail coach in which he was travelling capsized and all passengers were thrown out.

Recognition

The first Newland Memorial Church was built in 1868 and extended as the Hodge annexe, replacing the "Tabernacle" built by R. W. Newland.

A new Newland Memorial Church , built on land donated by Henry S. Newland, with a bequest from Simpson Newland, and designed by W. H. Bagot, was erected c. 1930 in his memory.^[7]

On 25 December 1838, on the eve of Rev. Newland's departure for Australia, he was presented with a pair of communion cups, still held by the Newland Memorial Church.^[8]

Family

Rev. Ridgway William Newland (c. 1788 – 8 March 1864) was married to Martha Newland, née Keeling (c. 1797 – 13 April 1870)

with first wife

• Watts Newland (c. 1821 – 25 June 1913) married Fanny Hester Taylor (c. 1854 – 10 October 1862) in 1853; he married again, to Margaret Egan ( – 1908) in 1865. They were pioneers of Glencoe, then Hindmarsh Valley, later managed the Poonindie Aboriginal station, near Port Lincoln.^[9]

• Mary Newland (28 May 1854 – 1878)
• Robert Fredrick Newland (15 September 1859 – )
• Rose Ada Newland (14 April 1861 – 1955) married John Hazel Kelly (c. 1860 – 29 November 1939) in 1889
• Fanny Newland ( – ) married Herbert Oxley Hopkins (1895 – ) on 27 October 1886
• Margaret Cate Newland (16 June 1873 – 1953)
• William Benning Newland (4 November 1875 – 1971) married Winifred Fairey Evans ( – 1955) on 1907

• Clifford Benning "Cliff" Newland (6 September 1908 – ) married Janet Ada Penna (1915 – ) c. 1940, lived at Renmark
• Hubert Gordon Newland (21 December 1909 – 1919)
• Margaret Newland (2 September 1912 – )
• Lindsay Hamilton Newland (13 November 1915 – )
• Joan Winifred (27 June 1917 – )
• William Colin (9 October 1913 – )
• Betty Newland (9 March 1920 – )

• Martha Newland (22 April 1878 – )
• Matthew Totham Newland (5 January 1881 – 1917) married Susannah Lucy Joyce Jervois (1888– ) in 1913. Susannah was a grand-daughter of Allan McFarlane and a great-nephew of Sir William Jervois.

• Margaret Susanna Newland (22 March 1914 – )
• Nancy Benning Newland (23 October 1915 – )
• Ben Totham Jervois Newland (13 May 1917 – )

• Madelina Isabel Newland (6 June 1883 – ) married Edward Campbell Deland ( – ) in 1905, farmed at Blyth

• Ridgway William Newland ( – 1942) married Jessie Rose de Lacy (1863 – 12 February 1903) on 29 September 1885

• Hazel Flora Ruby (14 September 1886 – 7 May 1888)
• Ada Rose/Rose Ada Newland (28 December 1889 – )
• Ridgway James Newland (4 August 1892 – 25 April 1984) married Mary Ellen Rogers ( – ) on 1918, lived at Milang.

• Eileen Mary Newland (21 March 1918 – )
• Carmel Frances Newland (15 May 1920 – 10 November 1991) married Stanley George "Stan" Gordon (c. 1920 – 19 July 1992) on c. 1943
• Hazel Imelda Newland (2 September 1921 – 1999)
• Veronica Jessica May "Ronnie" Newland ( 1923 – ) married Gordon Roberts ( – ) on c. 1953
• Kevin Ridgway James Newland (3 October 1924 – ) enlisted 1944
• Patricia Kathleen "Pat" Newland (12 March 1926? 1925? – ) maybe married Alby Abbedan ( – ) on c. 1952
• Dorothy Newland ( – ) married Gordon Cross ( – ) on 13 November 1954
• Margaret Newland ( – ) married Bruce Jaensch ( – ) on c. 1956

• Blanche Jessie/Jessie Blanche Newland (4 May 1895 – 10 January 1979) married John Montrose Winton ( – c. 1 June 1954) on 15 October 1915. Both at South Gap station near Port Augusta.
• Margarete Flora Newland (25 November 1896 – 17 February 1960)
• Minnie Warna Newland (4 June 1899 – 21 April 1963)
• Kate Mary Newland (20 October 1900 – )

with Martha

• Martha Newland (c. 1828 – 1 March 1901) married Capt. Philip Alexander Nation (c. 1819 – 14 October 1867) on 27 June 1854. He was harbor-master at Wallaroo
• Sophia Newland (c. 1830 – 28 April 1872) married Henry Field ( – ) on 23 May 1849, farmed in Western Australia.
• Simpson Newland (2 November 1835 – 27 June 1925) married Jane Isabella Layton (c. 1850 – 11 January 1939) on 12 September 1872

• Victor Marra Newland (1876–1953) married Elsie Margaret Porter (1879 – 11 February 1950) on 20 April 1909. Their family included:

• Elaine Newland ( – ) married Robert Henry Wreford (1909–1990) on 8 July 1936. He was managing director, G. & R. Wills from 1961; lived in North Adelaide.
• Margaret Elizabeth Jean Newland ( – ) married Richard Hampden Dutton (6 August 1909 – 13 December 1940), son of Henry Hampden Dutton on 25 February 1933. She married again, to Sidney Downer (September 1909 – September 1969) on 8 September 1948. They separated around 1960.^[10]

• Col. Henry Simpson Newland DSO, CBE (24 November 1873 – 1969) married Ellen Mary Lindon ( – ) on 14 July 1910

• Henry Ridgway Simpson Newland (3 May 1911 – )
• Mary Isobel Hemery Newland (7 July 1912 – 1989) married Andrew Gosse Hay (1909 – 1974) on 31 March 1937
• Ursula Helen Newland (8 May 1914 – )

• Philip Mesmer "Phil" Newland (2 February 1875 – 11 August 1916) married Josephine Mary Ferguson ( – ) in 1905. He was a noted cricketer

• Philip Simpson Newland (19 June 1906 – 1923)
• Robert Thorburn Newland (12 November 1908 – )
• Mary Josephine Newland (5 March 1910 – )
• Elizabeth Layton Newland ( 1912 – )–

• Dr. Clive Newland (1878 – 25 January 1919) married Marjorie Ringwood Hamilton ( – ) on 1903. He was killed when he rode his motorcycle into a railway train.

• Clive Hamilton Newland (1904 – )
• Rupert Simpson Hamilton Newland (6 June 1908 – 1930)
• James Hamilton Newland (6 July 1913 – ) married Mildred Florence Copping ( – ) on 1937

• Ralph Dimmock Newland (16 March 1880 – 20 September 1933) married Hazel Thornton Creswell (c. 1887 – 4 November 1915) on 7 June 1909. He married Mildred Faith Dinning in 1930, farmed at South Australia.

• John Creswell Newland (3 March 1910 – 1991) married Margaret Leonie Martin ( –2007) on 1936
• Basil Creswell Newland (21 January 1913 – 1985) married Constance Mary Austin ( –2004) on 3 February 1940. He was champion fencer and horseman
• Dr. Malcolm Creswell Newland (2 October 1915–2007) married Joan Emery ( – ) on 3 February 1940.

• William Newland (c. 1831 – 23 November 1874) married Abbie Lowe ( – 1881) in 1862, introvert.^[11]

• Edith Keeling Newland (16 November 1862 – 1887)
• Kate Lilian (4 September 1864 – 1873)
• Ellen Gertrude Newland (19 October 1866 – 1881)
• Ethel Ashington Newland (15 January 1870 – )

• Catherine Humphries Newland (c. 1834 – 20 May 1879) married Alfred George Webb (c. 1836 – 17 October 1897) on 1858. He was auctioneer of Port Elliot, later manager of Ellerslie station, Adelong. He married again, to Mary Amelia, some 30 years his junior. He sued nephew Cyril D'Arcy Leaver for libel. Leaver had accused Webb of illicit relations with his adopted daughter Louisa Larpent.^[12] He died shortly after settling out of court.
• Sarah Newland (c. 1838 – 26 June 1922) married Frank Mart (c. 1834 – 7 March 1874) in 1857, lived at Port Wakefield. She married again, to Arthur Newton ( – 1925) on 12 October 1875.
• John Robert Lakeman Newland (c. 1843 – 30 July 1912) married Ellen Wilkie (c. 1844 – 10 January 1927) in 1866

• Philip Newland (10 April 1867 – )
• Edith Mary Newland (2 February 1869 – 1907)
• Robert Newland (9 June 1870–1871)
• Jessie Newland (11 February 1872 – )
• Euphemia Newland (8 December 1873 – 1877)
• Ivy Louisa Newland (1883–1884)
• Herbert John Newland (26 March 1876 – 1935) married (Annie) Orari Kelley ( – 1955) on 1899

• Allan Herbert Newland (22 November 1904 – ) married Kathleen Ethel Stock ( – ) in 1937
• Cyril Lakeman Newland (10 March 1908–1992) married Halley May Holt ( –1995) in 1937

• Ellen Newland (10 April 1878 – )
• Frank Newland (28 October 1880 – ) married Ida Frances Bard/Baird?

• Edward Wilkie Newland (25 June 1919 – 1930)
• Quentin Theodore Newland (1 May 1922 – )
• Philip Lakeman Newland (4 November 1925 – )

• Louisa Newland (1 March 1883 – 1912)
• Ruth Newland (24 August 1885–1967) married Arthur Clive Duval (1891–1965) on 1916
• Dora Marguerite Newland (17 August 1888 – 1969)

who was

• Alfred Porter Newland (1855 – 25 February 1910) married Mary Eliza Lander ( – ) in 1883. He was son of John Newland of Helpringham

• Geraldine Maud Newland (28 September 1883 – )
• Georgina Isabel Newland (9 November 1883 – )

births

13 August 1854 NEWLAND Eliza Ann James BANNET Phoebe NEWLAND Adelaide 5/27 Find out more...

5 December 1875 NEWLAND William Joseph William NEWLAND Mary (not recorded) Wellington 159/143 Find out more...

26 September 1881 NEWLAND Alice Florence Arthur John NEWLAND Florence BYSH Hindmarsh 272/328 Find out more...

28 September 1913 NEWLAND Annie Henry NEWLAND Ellen HENNESSY Adelaide 920/468 Find out more...

12 April 1916 NEWLAND Gwenyth Stephens William Andrew NEWLAND Gertrude Sims STEPHENS Frome 978/373 Find out more...

NEWLAND, Olive b: 14 Sep 1878 in Burnside, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

NEWLAND, Eleanor Amy b: 24 Sep 1843 in Section 478 District A, South Australia

NEWLAND, Eleanor Constance b: 22 Feb 1846 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

marriages

who were

Sarah Ann Newland ( – 21 April 1901) who married Richard Potter in 1847

Mary Newland ( – ) who married George Gould in 1855

Mary Ann Newland who married Thomas Stagg in 1855

Jane Newland who married Thomas Jones in 1864

Eliza Newland who married George Choules in 1864

William Henry Newland who married Bridget Bergin in 1873

Joseph Newland who married Jane Disher in 1877

Duncan Newland who married Jane Sinel in 1889

Jessy Newland who married Ernest Wallace Stock in 1908

Rose Ada Newland who married Alfred Samuel Herbert Morley in 1910

Henry Newland who married Ellen Hennessy in 1912

Kathleen Mary Newland who married John Edward Martlew in 1917

Minnie Warna Newland who married Henry Martin in 1918

Martha Violet Newland who married Harry Martens on 15 August 1919

• James Stanley Newland (c.1898–1980) married Hazel Thelma Barber (c. 1900–1975) on 8 March 1924

• James Dennis Ashton Newland (23 September 1925 – )
• Thelma Ruth Newland (15 May 1928– )

Peggy Ivy May Newland who married Arthur Cossich in 1937

• George William Newland ( – ) married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Brown ( – 1958)

• Thelma Ruth Newland (13 January 1918 – )

• William Newland married Jane ??, lived at Glencoe

• John Nolan Newland married Esther Jane Smyth ( – 1935) on 1 October 1921

deaths

who were:

William Newland ( – 1877) Mary Newland ( – 1878) Anne Newland ( – 1881) Charlotte Newland ( – 1899) William NEWLAND (H) Wellington Find out more... William Henry Newland ( – 1906) Bridget Newland ( – 1906) William Henry NEWLAND (DH) Adelaide Find out more... Rhoda Emylene Newland ( – 1906) David Newland ( – 1906) Jimmy Newland ( – 1912) Tommy Newland ( – 1916) Ethel Ashington Newland ( – 1917) Cora Heard Newland ( – 1917) John Esler Newland ( – 1932) G G NEWLAND [B] Flinders Find out more... Ellen Newland ( – 1933) A C DURAL [BL] Willunga Find out more... Ivy May Newland ( – 1935) James Newland ( – 1940) Alfred John Newland ( – 1944) Neville Bede Newland ( – 1954) Jane Newland ( – 1956)

• Duncan Donald Newland married Jane LINEL

• George Glen Newland (4 January 1893 – 1956)

Bernard Charles Newland ( – 1961) Frank Newland ( – 1964) Alice Newland ( – 1964) James NEWLAND [DH] Adelaide Find out more... George William Newland ( – 1972) Kathleen NEWLAND [W] Adelaide Find out more...

It is unlikely that Richard Francis Newland was related: he was an Anglican and brother of an Anglican clergyman.

References

External Links

• Newland Uniting Church history

Category:1876 births Category:1953 deaths Category:Australian Congregationalist ministers Category:People from South Australia Category:Road incident deaths in Australia Category:South Australian families