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Arthur Capel
c1885-1885
Arthur was born in Greenham, Berkshire, the son of Edwin Charles and Harriet Agnes Capel (nee London) who were married in 1880 (marriage registered in Newbury, names recorded as Charles Edwin and Agnes)
Arthur died aged I month, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 31st January 1885.
Arthur’s family:
His father’s birth was registered as Edwin Charles Capel in 1859 in Reading. he was later known as Charles Edwin, the son of Frederick and Harriet Capel (nee House) who were married in 1849 (marriage registered in Reading)
His mother Harriet Agnes (aka Agnes Harriet) was born in 1856 in Winnersh, Hurst, Berkshire, the daughter of James and Harriet London (nee Crockford) who were married on the 12th December 1850 at St Giles, Reading, Berkshire.
Arthur’s siblings were (all births registered in Newbury):
Ernest Charles 1882 (died aged 2 days, buried in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 12th August 1882)
Ethel Gertrude 1887 (born in Greenham)
Wilfred Douglas 1890
The 1881 census records Charles (22) as a Railway Bookstall Manager, living in Greenham Fields, Greenham, Berkshire with Harriet (24) (surname recorded as Caple on ancestry).
By 1891 the family had moved to Moss Cottage, Priory Road, Newbury, Charles was still working as the Manager of the Railway Bookstall.
Charles died aged 36 in 1896, at the time of his death he was living in Moulsford, Berkshire.
The 1901 census records Agnes (44) living on her own means in Brighton Road, Reading, Berkshire with her widowed father James London, a Farmer and her children Ethel (13) and Wilfred (10).
The 1911 census records Agnes (54) living at 94 Brighton Road, Reading with Wildred (20) a Motor Engineering Fitter, Ethel (23) an Assistant Teacher and her aunt, Lucy Andrews (91).
Agnes died aged 72 in 1929, at the time of her death she was living at 20 St Edwards-road, Reading
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