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Martha Winter
c1803-1857
Martha was baptised in Shaw cum Donnington in 1803 the daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth Walter (nee Jackson) who were married in 1798 in Hampstead Norreys Berkshire.
Abraham and Elizabeth also had a son George, he was baptised in Hampstead Norreys in 1800.
Martha married Frederick Challis on the 11th November 1821 in Speen Berkshire.
Frederick was born c1802 in Newbury, the son of Lawrence (c1769-1844) and Ruth Challis (nee Walker c1771-1838) who were married at Holy Rood Church, Southampton, Hampshire in 1794.
Martha and Frederick had the following children:
Livinia baptised 1822 (died aged 3 weeks, buried 22nd November 1822 at St Nicolas Newbury)
Cornelius baptised 1824
Livinia baptised 1827
Maria born c1831.
Frederick died aged 28 in 1830, he was buried on the 2nd June at St Nicolas Newbury.
Martha remarried on the 30th October 1836 at St Nicolas Church Newbury. (Her 2nd husband was a widower, Nathaniel James Winter, born c1807 the son of Nathaniel Benjamin and Mary Winter. Nathaniel James married Elizabeth Wiggins in 1834 in Greenham. Elizabeth died aged 35 in 1835, she was buried on the 21st December at St Mary Greenham).
In 1841 Martha (40) was living in Bartholomew Street Newbury with her husband Nathaniel Winter (30) and her children Cornelius (15), Livinia (14) and Maria (10).
In 1851 Nathaniel (44) was recorded as a Labourer and Boatman, living in Porter’s Yard (off Bartholomew Street) Newbury with Martha (50).
Martha died aged 57 in 1857, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 15th September.
Nathaniel was recorded in the 1861 census lodging with a widow, Rachel Briant and her 4 children. He married Rachel in 1862 and they had three children, William born 1862, Henry c1865 and Amelia 1867.
They were recorded living in Steamer’s Yard Newbury in 1871, Ashdown Court in 1881 and St John’s Almshouses Argyle Road Newbury in 1891.
Nathaniel died aged 91 in 1898, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 2nd November. Rachel died in the workhouse in 1907 aged 72 and was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 23rd May.
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