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I know where,how, and when she died, but has anyone more information about her?
Many thanks.

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Regards
Adrian

Thanks you Adrian.

Sepsop - how much more do you want to know about Emily Stanley Owen. When I have gone through the dozens of obituaries for her father, the Rev John Stanley Owen, I should be able to do a write up on her to equal a Rory Reynolds submission.

Here are some key points:

Born in Sheerness, Kent where her father was the Vicar of St Paul's.
Mother died when Emily was 15 months old following complications which set in following the birth of Emily's younger brother, Percy.
Her father remarried to a widow of another clergyman three years later and she bought a daughter to the marriage the same age as Emily.
In 1881 the family moved to Birmingham when her father became Vicar of St Mary's in the centre of the city.
In 1888 they moved on again to the centre of Derby when her father became Vicar of St Alkmund's.
Adrian's post gives some much detail about the next decade, I can add she sailed to SA on the Carisbrooke Castle.
Her death in SA was as a result of a boating accident according to one of her father's obituaries.

Her father died in 1903 by when he was semi-retired owing to health issues and had moved to the village of Little Eaton outside Derby. All were welcomed to the funeral and they put on a special train for all to attend. The wreaths arrived by the cabload and the muffled bells rang through 1,200 changes.

Regards, David.

Hello David,
That is fantastic, thank you very much. If you have more information it will be greatly appreciated, but thank you for what you have supplied.
Regards

Sepsop - The more I look the more I find about Emmie, as she was fondly known, and her family.

To help me direct my on-going research and further writings can I ask what your interest in Emmie is - relative or do you possess her clasp-less Queen's South Africa Medal or something else?

Here is the full story of her death which could be described as a tragedy within an accident - this newspaper clipping is from the Derbyshire Advertiser & Journal of 15 March 1901:



The Curate of St Alkmund's was so moved by her death he wrote a 7 verse poem in her memory and it was published in the Derbyshire Advertiser & Journal of 8 February 1901. Here is the final verse:

Beneath the Southern Cross she lies,
In a far-off unknown grave.
Who gave her life for Jesu’s sake,
The soldier’s life to save.
Soft blow the breezes o’er her;
In peace her ashes rest;
No trouble more disturb her sleep
Upon the Saviour’s breast.

Also where do you live - the memorial Adrian posted is now in Derby Museum - moved there when St Alkmund's Church was demolished. She is also commemorated in a church in Aldershot and of course in South Africa.