Was born at 29 John Street, St. John’s Wood, London in 1864. He married Mary Ann Drew in 1884 when they lived at 13 Netherwood Street, Hampstead, London. Emery was recorded as an omnibus groom and conductor on the horse buses in the census (5/4/1891) but it is known that he followed his trade of carpenter at other times. He lived at many addresses during his lifetime, they are listed as follows:
29 John Street, St John’s Wood, London
2 John Street, St John’s Wood, London
35 Denmark Road, Kilburn, London
19 Salisbury Road, Kilburn, London
28 Albert Road, Kilburn, London
73 Walterton Road, Paddington, London
13 Netherwood Street, Hampstead, London
17 Netherwood Street, Hampstead, London
97 Denmark Road, Kilburn, London
103 Canterbury Road, Kilburn, London
27 Herries Street, Paddington, London
71 Harvist Road, Killburn, London
92 Harvist Road, Killburn, London
3 Clarenont Road, Kilburn, London
47a Price Street, Ryde, Isle of Wight
Emery is a direct line ancestor of the author, Cyril Risbridger, and he passed away in 1941 during WWII at his address in the Isle of Wight, at the age of seventy eight. Emery married again, seventeen years after his first wife’s death, in 1919 to Eva May who was born in 1879 and died in 1955, fourteen years after Emery, they had a daughter Eva born 1911 who married Richard Willett a Romany from the Isle of Wight, she had three children to Richard, Richard David 1938; John 1942 and Peter (no date).