Elizabeth Osgood

c1772-1858

Elizabeth was born c1772, place unknown. (The 1841 census records that she was not born in the county of Berkshire, the 1851 census records her birth place as Newbury, Berkshire)

Elizabeth Thustain/Thurstead married Harry Osgood on the 27^th February 1797 at St Nicolas Church, Newbury (both were single)

They had the following children:
Robert George c1798 (died aged 81 in 1879, buried in the NRC on the 3^rd November)

Sarah Elizabeth born 15^th July 1801, baptised 15^th November 1801 (married George Fry in 1820)

Harry c1803 (died aged 30 in 1833, buried 16^th December at St Nicolas Newbury)

John c1811 (died aged 91 in 1903, buried in the NRC on the 28^th January)

In 1815 Harry (50), Elizabeth (45), their children, Robert (16), Sarah Elizabeth (13), Harry (11), John (4) and a servant Elizabeth Alderman (18), were recorded living at the Weavers Arms, Cheap Street, Newbury.

The 1839 Robson’s Directory of Newbury records Harry Osgood at the Weavers Arms, Cheap Street, Newbury

In 1841 Harry (80) was recorded as an Innkeeper, living in Cheap Street, Newbury (still at the Weavers Arms), with Elizabeth (70) their married daughter Sarah Fry (35) (recorded as Samuel on ancestry) and their grandchildren Ellen Fry (15) and William Fry (15).

Elizabeth was widowed in 1842, Harry died aged 85 on the 8^th November, he was buried on the 15^th November at St Nicolas Newbury.

The 1851 census records Elizabeth (80) as Formerly a Publican, living at 3, Kimbers Almshouses, Newbury, her daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Fry (49), a Dressmaker, was living with her.

Elizabeth died aged 86 on the 14^th April 1858, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 21^st April.

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