Harriet Grigg

c1823-1880

Harriet was born in Woolhampton, Berkshire, she was baptised on the 2^nd March 1823 in Aldermaston, Berkshire, the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Lawrence (nee Goodger) who were married on the 22^nd October 1804 in Aldermaston.

According to the 1851 census her father Thomas was born c1780 in Kingsclere, Hampshire.

Her mother Elizabeth was baptised in 1783 in Beenham, Berkshire, the daughter of Benjamin and Ann Goodger. (According to the 1851 census she was born in Bucklebury)

Thomas and Elizabeth also had the following two children baptised in Aldermaston:

William, baptised on the 22^nd October 1815

Jane, baptised on the 28^th May 1820

In 1851 Harriet (27) was working as a Servant at Harwood Lodge, East Woodhay, Hampshire, for a Nathaniel Barslem (78), an Army Colonel and Magistrate and his wife.

Harriet married in 1853

Marriage details:

Place: St Nicolas Church, Newbury, Berkshire

Date: 23^rd October 1853

Groom: Henry Grigg, full age, bachelor, occupation, Labourer, abode, Newbury

Bride: Harriet Lawrence, full age, spinster, abode, East Woodhay, Hampshire

Fathers: Richard Grigg, a Cordwainer and Thomas Lawrence, a Labourer

Witnesses: George Stillman and Phileman Gregory

(Henry was baptised in the 4^th February 1824, in Kingsclere, Hampshire, the son of Richard and Charlotte Grigg (nee Smith) who were married on the 29^th October 1810 in Litchfield, Hampshire).

Henry and Harriet had a daughter, Harriet Elizabeth born c1854 in Newbury, she was baptised in 1859.

In 1861 Henry (36) was recorded as a Journeyman Butcher, living at 2, Waterloo Place, Newbury with Harriet (37) and their daughter, Harriet (7).

In 1871 Henry (47) and Harriet (44) were still living at 2, Waterloo Place, Henry was recorded as an Unemployed Butcher.

Harriet died aged 50 at home (Waterloo Place) on the 5^th August 1880, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 9^th August.

The 1881 census records Henry (55), as a Labourer at Gas Works, living with his widowed sister Eliza Harrison (68) a Monthly Nurse, at 6, Winchcombe Place, Newbury. (surname recorded as Gregg on ancestry)

By 1891 Henry (67) was an inmate in the Newbury Workhouse, The census for this year records him as a Butcher/Domestic Servant.

He died aged 76 on the 13^st February 1901 in the Workhouse and was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 16^th February.

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