Emma Clara 'Forsyth' Stevenson, Mrs. Thomas Peacock

1. This photo was taken from ancestry.com from the tree of a Mr. Smith 

Death of Charles BOVIS - 1886

BOVIS.—April 24, at his residence, 47, Waverley-road,


Woollahra, Charles Bovis (late of Market-Street), in his 70th year. Friends please accept this intimation

Sydney Morning Herald, April 24, 1886

Janet Scott Forsyth, Mrs. Charles Bovis 1822 - 1901

Today, I found a marriage for Janet Forsyth on ancestry.com on the McCawley-Larkin family tree. She married CHARLES THORPE BOVIS on March 22, 1865. They were married in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. His first wife's name was Mary Weaver and she died in 1863. He was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England and Charles and Mary were married in England. A Bovis family tree on ancestry.com has a record of their arrival in Australia (1830's) and shows Janet as a second wife with no children. Her death is reported as 1901 in Woollahra (Sydney).

It appears that Janet may have gone to Australia as a housekeeper or nanny (large family) as she went to Australia as a spinster.
The notice in the Sydney Morning Herald, 28 March 1865 reads:
BOVIS - FORSYTH On the 22nd instant. by special license, by Rev. B. Chapman, Charles Bovis, 80 Kings Street, to Janet Forsyth, spinster, a native of Scotland


Death of Janet Forsyth, Mrs. Charles BOVIS 1901

BOVIS, December 28, 1901 at her residence, 102 Waverley Rd, Woollhara, Janet, relict of the late Charles Bovis, age 80. At rest. The Sydney Morning Herald, December 30, 1901

Sarah Forsyth Montgomery 1866-1934

Source:  Montgomery Family Tree on Ancestry.com click on photo to enlarge

Bondager Women

Leslie Forsyth of Medicine Lodge, Kansas

Source:  CHOSEN LAND - A History of Barber County, Kansas - Dedicated to  the People of Barber County - Past, Present and Future - Taylor Publishing, Dallas, Texas

Excerpts for Forsyth families received from the Lincoln Library, Medicine Lodge

The Death of William R. Forsyth of Medicine Lodge, Kansas, 96

This obituary was received from the Lincoln Library, Medicine Lodge, Kansas

1916 Census - Swift Current, Saskatchewan

William Charles Forsyth, son of John Forsyth and Mary Dales, is shown in this census with his wife and
children.  They lived at Lake Valley which is apparently close to Swift Current.
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William Hewat in London, England

William was the son of Francis Hewat and Christian Forsyth.  In the 1871 census, he and his family are living at 33 Fleet Rd., Hampstead, Middlesex.   His wife is Eliza (Reed) and he has a daughter, Catherine, and three sons, all born in England.  William and Eliza were married on November 10th, 1852 at St. Mary's Chapel in Lambeth, Surrey.  She was the daughter of Richard Reed, a deceased coachman and William's father is shown as Francis Hewat, a blacksmith.

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The family is at the same address in 1881, and William's death on August 27, 1883, at 57 years of age takes place on Fleet Rd as well.  The record of his death is from a probate record (on-line) which states that he was a Gas Service Layer, and that the estate went to his wife, Eliza Ann Hewat in the amount of two hundred and ninety-three pounds sterling.

Christian Hewat, Widow of Francis

I finally found the last census for Christian Forsyth Hewat right where she had lived most of her married life.  Her surname appears as Hewit.

1881 Census Scotland - Nisbet Loanhead, East Lothian

James Hewit, 51, b. 1831, Blacksmith
Christine Hewit, 80, mother
Thomas Sked, 18, b. Dunbar, Apprentice
Elizabeth Sked, 16, b. 1865, Tranent, E.L.. female servant,

After his mother's death, we find James in the 1891 census in Bolton, E.L. on the Eaglescairne Mains Farm.

James Hewat, 62, living on own means, retired blacksmith

Janet Hewat, 57, b. 1834 Salton, Haddingtonshire, blacksmith's wife

1905 Census for Medicine Lodge, Kansas

In 1905, William and Elizabeth Forsyth of Medicine Lodge, Kansas had visitors.  William's sister, Margaret, a music teacher, apparently lived with the couple for several years.  Also in this census is Annie Forsyth, the widow of Charles Cockburn Forsyth and mother of Leslie;  she was born in Ireland and is listed as a nurse. We don't know what happened to her, but Leslie was going to school in Canada and living with his Forsyth grandparents.  In 1905, William is the owner of a mill, a fact that was noted in his father's history from a Weston source.  The other woman in this census is not a relative.