Mary Hughes

c1785-1864

According to the 1851 and 1861 census records Mary was born c1785 in Linkenholt,q Hampshire.

The 1841 census records Mary (55) living in Bartholomew Street, Newbury with her husband Joseph (55), a Hairdresser (surname recorded as Angles on ancestry.)

The 1851 census records the couple living off Bartholomew Street, Newbury, Joseph (68) was recorded as a Hairdresser and Chelsea Pensioner.

Joseph died in 1855, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 19^th February (NBI has his age at death recorded as 70, the GRO website records his age at death as 76)

The 1861 census records Mary (75) as a Widow of a Barber, living alone in Dredge’s Yard, (off Bartholomew Street) Newbury.

Mary died aged 78 in 1864, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 14th March.

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