Elizabeth/Eliza Bulpit

c1795-1861

Eliza Currell was baptised on the 22^nd March 1795 at St Nicolas Church Newbury the daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Currell (nee Moss) who were married on the 25^th May 1790 at St Nicolas Newbury.

Eliza married William Bulpit on the 28^th November 1829 at St Nicolas Church Newbury (both were single).

William was baptised 4^th July 1799 in Marlborough Wiltshire the son of John and Sarah Bulpit, nee Smith who were married on the 15^th January 1799 at St Mary the Virgin Marlborough (surname recorded as Bulpet)

The 1841 census records William as Will Bulpit (45) (no occupation recorded) and Eliza (45) living in White’s Yard, Greenham, Berkshire.

In 1851 William (50) and Eliza (55) were living in Greenham Common, Newbury, William was working as a Cattle Dealer.

Eliza (death registered as Elizabeth) died aged 65 in 1861, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 25th January (recorded as Eliza Bulpit aged 66, buried St Nicolas Newbury, on the NBI, Elizabeth Bulpit in the cemetery accounts book and Elizabeth Bulpit aged 65 on the GRO )

The 1861 census records William (66), as a Gardener, lodging in Gibbs’s Yard, Bartholomew Street, Newbury.

William (70) was recorded as a Labourer, living in a Lodging House in the City Newbury in 1871.

He died (age at death recorded as 89) in 1873 and was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 10^th May.

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