Faith Guyatt

c1822-1894

Faith was baptised on the 30^th May 1822 at St Michael, Basingstoke, Hampshire, the daughter of Henry William (a Druggist) and Faith Guyatt (nee Tubb) who were married on the 5^th January 1821 at St Michael, Basingstoke, Hampshire (both were single, Faith was a minor)

Her father Henry William Gyatt was baptised aged 10 on the 5^th October 1798 in Tufton, Hampshire, the son of William and Elizabeth Gyatt (formerly Smith, nee ??) who were married on the 6^th September 1791 in Hampshire (both were widowed, William was a Farmer from Penton-Grafton, Elizabeth was from Tufton)

Her mother Faith was baptised in 1801 in Basingstoke, Hampshire, the daughter of Charles and Sarah Tubb (nee Miles) who were married on the 7^th May 1794 at St Marylebone, Westminster.

Henry William and Faith also had the following children baptised in Basingstoke:

Henry William 29^th October 1823

Henry William 18^th April 1824

Jane 24^th August 1825

Charles 11^th March 1827 (died soon after birth, buried 14^th march 1827)

Charles 30^th May 1828

William Henry 11^th June 1830

Thomas 25^th November 1831

The 1841 census records Faith (20) as a Female Servant in the household of a Surgeon, Edward Covey (35) and his family in Winchester Street, Basingstoke (surname recorded as Gergatt on ancestry)

In 1851 Faith (29) was recorded as a Nurse, she was living in Holt, Wokingham, Berkshire.

Faith was recorded living in East Woodhay, Hampshire in 1861 and Church Street, Basingstoke in 1871. In both census records she was recorded as a Nurse.

In 1881 Faith ((58) was working as a Housekeeper for a Mr. William B. Salisbury, a Master Builder in Pembrooke Road, Newbury, Berkshire.

The 1891 census records Faith (70) as an inmate in the Newbury Workhouse, she was recorded as a Nurse/Domestic Servant.

She died aged 74 on the 29^th January 1894 in the Workhouse.

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