John W Bassenden

c1789-1862

According to the 1861 census John was born in Cheriton Hampshire.

He married (as John William Basenden) Hannah King in 1852 (marriage registered in Newbury).

(Hannah King was a spinster when she married John. She had at least 4 children, Ellen Wells was baptised on the 24^th January 1841 (as Ellen King), John William Wells was baptised on the 25^th October 1846, (as John William Wells King) Isabella Wells was born born in 1849 and Charles Wells was baptised on the 26^th October 1851 (as Charles King). In 1841 Hannah was recorded as Ann King, aged 25, living with George Wells (50) and her daughter Ellen King aged 5 months, in Bell B---? Shop, Wash, Newbury. In 1851 Hannah was again recorded living with George Wells (63), an old age pensioner/ Brewer’s Labourer and her 3 eldest children, in the City Newbury)

The 1861 census records John (72), as a Greenwich Pensioner living with Hannah (42) and Hannah’s children, Ellen King (17), John King (14) and Charles King (8) in Lewis’s Buildings, Bartholomew Street, Newbury

He died aged 73 in 1862 and was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 12^th February

Hannah remarried in 1869, her 2^nd husband was a widower, James Barrett, a Bargeman (marriage registered in Newbury).

The 1871 census records Hannah (55) as a Bargeman’s wife (surname recorded as Banet on ancestry) and her son Charles Wells (23), a Grocer’s Porter, living in Pigeon’s Yard, Newbury.

James died aged 64 on the 4^th August 1871, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 9^th August.

In 1881 Hannah (65) was working as a Charwoman, she was living at 3 Rupert Place, Newbury.

She died aged 72 in 1891 and was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 9^th November

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