Mary Jane Hall

c1825-1905

Mary Jane Wilkins was born in Wiltshire, she was baptised on the 18^th September 1825 in Baydon, the daughter of James and Ann Wilkins (nee Avenal) who were married on the 18^th October 1824 in Baydon, Wiltshire.

Other children of James and Ann were:

Sarah c1828

William c1834

Stephen c1837

Mary Jane married Charles Hall, a Builder/Bricklayer (born c1823 in Newbury, the son of John and Hannah Hall (nee Head)) on the 9^th April 1850, in Baydon, Wiltshire, they had the following children (all born in Newbury):

Charles 1851

George c1853

Hannah 1855

William Henry John 1857

Alfred c1860

Mary Ann 1862 (died aged 0 in 1862, buried in the NRC on the 14^th November)

Frances Mary c1864

Alice 1866

James 1868 (died aged 1 in 1869, buried in the NRC on the 17^th December)

Mary Ann also gave birth to a stillborn child in 1859, this child was buried in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 9^th April

The family lived in Newbury, Harding’s Yard (1851), Staples Yard (1861) and Northcroft Lane (1871)

Charles died aged 51 on the 4^th April 1874, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 10^th April.

Mary Jane continued to living in Northcroft Lane until at least 1881 but by 1891 she was living in Prospect Villa, Gloucester Road, Newbury. She died aged 80 on the 22^nd June 1905, in the Royal Berkshire Hospital Reading. She was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 24^th June. (age at death registered as 82)

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