Walter Veale

c1872-1878

Walter Crawford Veale was born in Newbury, Berkshire, he was baptised on the 5^th July 1872 at St Nicolas Church Newbury, the son of Henry (a Painter) and Jennette Shadrack Veale.

According to the 1871 census his father Henry Veale was born c1832 in Tooley Street, (recorded as Sorley Street on ancestry) London. According to the same census his mother Jennette Shadrack Norton was born in 1844 in London, Middlesex but her birth was registered in Aberystwyth, Wales in 1842. She was the daughter of John and Jennette Norton (nee Crawford) who were married in 1834 in Exeter St David, Devon. Jeannette Shadrack Norton married James Musgrave in 1862 in Surrey. They had a daughter Amy Jeanette Musgrave born in 1863 in Surrey and a son Edwin James Musgrave born c1865 (possibly in Surrey, no birth registration found). James Musgrove died aged 23 (actual age 25) in 1866 in Surrey.

After her husband died Jennette formed a relationship with Henry Veale (no marriage found)

Henry and Jeanette also had the following children:

Henry Veale Musgrave baptised as Henry Veale on the 27^th July 1867, at St Nicolas Newbury, (baptism record records abode as Bermondsey) died 29^th July, buried in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 31^st July 1867 as Henry Veale.

Albert Henry born 1868 in Exeter Devon (birth registered in Newbury, baptised on the 5^th July 1868 at St Nicolas Church Newbury with his brother Edwin James Norton Veale (possibly Albert’s half-brother, born Edwin James Musgrave c1865) Albert Henry died on the 23^rd January 1912, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 27^th January.

A male child born 1869 in Newbury (later named William)

Reginald born 1874 in Newbury

Annie Crawford born 1877 in Newbury

Frances Ellen born 1878 in Newbury

Laura Norton born 1881 in Newbury

The 1871 census records Henry (39) as a Painter, living in Chubb’s Yard, St Mary’s Hill, Newbury, Berkshire, with Jeanette (27), Amey (7), Edwin (6), Albert (2), William (1) and Caroline Musgrove (30) (James Musgrave’s sister) (family surname recorded as Reale on ancestry).

In 1878 the family were living in Bayer’s Yard, Newbury. On the 20^th March Walter and his older brother William were playing on the banks of the river Kennet, sadly Walter fell into the river and drowned. He was buried in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 25^th March 1878.

Walter’s mother Jeanette Shadrach Musgrave died in 1887 in Surrey.

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