Amelia Tooes

1850-1850

Amelia Tooes was baptised on the 25^th August 1850 at St Nicolas Church Newbury, the daughter of Thomas and Emma Jane Tooes (nee Holley) who were married on the 25^th January 1847 at St Nicolas Church Newbury.

Emma had a son Frederick Stillman Holley (baptised on the 26^th November 1843 at St Nicolas Church Newbury) before she married Amelia’s father Thomas.

Thomas and Emma Jane also had the following two children:
Henry William, baptised on the the 29^th August 1847 at St Nicolas Church Newbury. Thomas, born in 1848, (died as Thomas Toos aged 1 in 1850, death recorded in the June quarter)

Amelia died aged 15 weeks she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 3^rd October 1850.

Amelia’s mother Emma died aged 24 a few weeks after Amelia, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 22^nd November 1850.

The 1851 census records Amelia’s widowed father Thomas Toes (aged 25, born bath Somerset) as Coachmaker. He was recorded living in Back Lane, Newbury with his in-laws, John Holley (66), an Ostler and Ann (66). Also recorded in the household was Amelia’s brother Henry Toes (3) (recorded as deaf and dumb) and a Frederick Stillman (7) (surname record as Ives on ancestry).

Amelia’s father Thomas remarried in 1853.

Marriage details:

Place: St Nicolas Church Newbury

Date: 16^th May 1853

Groom: Thomas Tooes, widower, occupation, Coach Maker

Bride: Ann Knight, widow

Fathers: William Tooes, occupation, Coach Maker and James Kersley, occupation, Wheeler

Witnesses: William Tooes and illegible

Bride and Groom both signed

Thomas and Ann lived in Newbury until at least 1891. By 1896 they were living in Hampshire. Thomas died aged 70 on the 4^th June 1896 in Hampshire (address at time of death, St Vincent-street Southsea). Ann died aged 78 in 1907 (death registered in Portsmouth)

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