From Wales to Wolverhampton
Elizabeth Newell was born in rural Montgomeryshire into a family that laboured in agriculture and flannel weaving. In her early twenties, she came to Wolverhampton. Three of her brothers followed her and settled in the town. Elizabeth met and married William Beddows, a sawyer of timber. William later established a very successful timber merchants business providing his family with a level of prosperity not experienced by Elizabeth in her childhood.