In 1843 he was a steamboat builder at Nine Elms, Vauxhall, London, England. They had a total of 5 children christened at St. Mary, Battersea, London, England between 1839 and 1847. They emigrated to the United States, leaving London on the ship Charles Walton and arriving in New York on 7 September 1849 when Fleming was 39,1236 Emma, 33, Emma, 5, Anna, 7 and Sarah, 3. They were in Chicago in 1849 with six children. On 1 June 1850 they lived in the Third Ward of Chicago, Illinois. Fleming was a 39 year old shipwright and lived with Mrs. Fleming Revell, 36, Anna, 9, Emma, 7, Sarah, 3, Fleming H. 9 months, Mrs. Short, 60, and Jas. Rawson, 35, all born in England.1237,30They were French Huguenots.418

Samuel Hewett, born on 7 December 1797, founded the Short Blue Fleet based in Barking, and using smacks out of Barking and east coast ports.

On 1 June 1880 she was a 63 year old widow and lived with her daughter Anna Reese’s family in Evanston, Illinois.1238