Annie Wright

1856-1860

Annie Maria was born in 1856 in Newbury, the daughter of John and Livinia Wright (nee Challis) who were married in 1848 in Newbury.

Annie died aged 4 in 1860, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 24^th April.

Annie’s siblings were:

Twins: Jane and Richard John 1849 (Richard died aged 9 weeks, buried 6^th June 1849 at St Nicolas Newbury)

Richard c1851

Female c1855 (died without being given a name soon after birth)

Elizabeth 1859

Annie Livinia 1862

Frederick John 1864

Joseph Cornelius 1867

Her father John was a Bargeman. He was baptised 15^th December 1822 at St Nicolas Church Newbury, the son of Richard and Elizabeth Wright (nee Triggs) who were married on the 25^th May 1817 at St Nicolas. John died aged 46 in 1869, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 2^nd October.

Her mother Livinia was baptised in Newbury in 1827, the daughter of Frederick and Martha Challis (nee Walter) who were married on the 11^th November 1821 in Speen. Livinia remarried in 1874, her 2^nd husband was Henry Waite.

Both the 1881 and 1891 census records Livinia as a Laundress, living in Mayor’s Lane Newbury. (Henry Waite was not recorded living in the household in either census). In 1881 her children Annie (18) a Housemaid, Joseph (14), a Bricklayer’s Labourer and her granddaughter Alice Wright (3) (illegitimate daughter of her daughter Elizabeth) were recorded living with her. In 1891 she was living alone.

Livinia died aged 66 in 1896 and was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 7^th February.

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