Joseph and Elizabeth Steward Family Chart
Parents Born Baptized Married Moves Occupations Death Burial
Joseph John Steward

Source Data
1824-1826 in Poplar, England

Sources:
• 1824-1825 Poplar (1891 Census)
• 1825-1826 Middlesex County (1841 Census),
• 1825-1826 Poplar (1871, 1881 Censuses)
• 1825-1826 (Death Registration)
3 September 1828 at St. Dunstan, Stepney, England by E. James

Religion: Anglican

Family indicated abode as Poplar

Baptized same day as brother Robert
Elizabeth Holloway Steward on 11 June 1848 at St. Mary's Stratford Bow, Bow, England at about age 23 Stayed in Poplar, England • Rigger (1848 Marriage Registration)
• Rigger (son's 1849 Birth Registration)
• Dock Labourer (1851 Census)
• Labourer (son's 1853 Birth Registration)
• Rigger (son's 1858 Birth Registration)
• Stevedore Labourer (1871 Census)
• Engineer (1881 Marriage Registration)
• Dock Laborer (1881 Census)
• Rigger (Death Registration)

23 October 1892 at 20 Wade Street, Poplar, England at age 67

Cause: Sudden syncope from heart disease, natural

Elizabeth Holloway

Source Data
January 1825-1830, probably 1825
• 1825 Poplar (1881, 1891 Census)
• 1825 (Death Record)
• 1825 St. Albans (Obituary)
•1826 (1893 Shipping Record)
• 1826 Poplar (1871 Census)
• January 1830 (1900 Census) Note: Obituary indicates she was born in St. Albans, England, while UK Census indicates Poplar
Sponsors:
Religion: Anglican
Joseph John Steward on 11 June 1848 at St. Mary's Stratford Bow, Bow, England at about age 23 • Arrived in New York on S.S. Britannic on 18 August 1893 with daughter, and grandsons Charles and James Henry.
• Settled in Chicago with grandson James Oscar. Jordan
• Moved to Madison about 1907 with daughter and grandsons.
Housewife 12 April 1908 in Dane County Poor House, Verona, Wisconsin at age 83

Place of previous residence: Madison, Wisconsin 10 month before

Cause: Senility and Pneumonia
14 April 1908 at Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin in Grave #2, Lot 95, Sec. 23; No marker.
Children Born Baptized Married Moves Occupations Death Burial
Elizabeth Priscilla Holloway Steward

(Name shown on Birth Registration: Elizabeth Priscilla Holloway)

Source Data
27 February 1847 at the Poplar Union Workhouse, Poplar England 19 March 1851 at All Saints, Poplar, England

Possibly also at 27 February 1847 at the Poplar Union Workhouse. See Source Data.

Knut Oscar Scholdberg on 24 May 1867 at St. Mary's Stratford Bow in Bow, England at age 20

James Jordan on 16 November 1876 at St. Mary's Stratford Bow, Bow, England at age 29
• Lived at various places in Poplar, England with parents and two husbands
• Arrived in New York on S.S. Britannic on 18 August 1893 with mother, and sons Charles and James Henry
• To Chicago in August 1893 to be with son James Oscar Jordan and her brother Charles Steward
• Moved temporarily to Madison about 1907-08 with sons and mother, then returned to Chicago.
Laundress in 1920s 22 April 1931 in Chicago at age 84

Place of residence: 1107 Robey (Damen), Chicago

Cause: Carcinoma of the right breast
25 April 1931 cremated at Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois; disposition of cremains
Joseph John Steward

Source Data
18 June 1849 at 13 William Street, Poplar, England 19 March 1851 at All Saints, Poplar, England • To San Francisco
• He was not heard from after the 1906 earthquake
• Stevedore Labourer (1871 Census)
Charles Hooper Steward

Source Data
27 February 1851 at 12 Chrisp Street, Poplar, England 19 March 1851 at All Saints, Poplar, England • possibly to Eveline Annie Mathers on 28 September 1876 in Montreal
• By 1900 Charles was divorced
• Had a daughter Alice in Chicago
• To Chicago, may have been 1st in family to arrive in Chicago
• James Oscar Jordan may have stayed with him.
• Stevedore Labourer (1871 Census)
• Engineer
• Ironfitter
• Machinist (1900 Census)
William Robert Steward at birth

William Holloway Steward at marriage

Source Data
23 August 1853 at 12 Chrisp Street, Poplar, England Caroline Hoyles on 19 May 1872 at St. Thomas Church in Bethnal Green at age 18

Had a son William
• Paper Hanger (1871 Census, Marriage Record)
Henry Steward at birth

Robert Henry Steward at marriage

Source Data
22 March 1858 at 3 Jeremiah Street, Poplar, England Mary Ann Smith on 8 March 1881 at St. Jude in Bethnal Green at age 22 Stayed in England • Stevedore Labourer (1871 Census)
• Engineer (1881 Marriage Registration)
• Stevedore Labourer (1891 Census)
• Member of Parliament (Janet Kommers's May 1978 letter)

Family Chart Notes
  1. Clicking individual names under the Parent's/Children's column transfers to that individual's Family Chart.
  2. It is unclear if Elizabeth Priscilla Steward was also baptized at the Poplar Union Workhouse, Poplar, England on February 28, 1847 on the day she was born. There is some ambiguity in this matter. See Elizabeth Priscilla Holloway Source Data for a fuller discussion.
  1. Elizabeth Priscilla Steward and her brothers Joseph John Steward and Charles Hooper Steward were all baptized on the same day.
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