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Thomas Low
c1846-1851
Thomas Charles was born in Newbury, Berkshire, he was baptised on the 22nd February 1846, at St Nicolas Church, Newbury, the son of Charles and Eliza Low (nee Parr).
His father Charles was baptised on the 13th July 1812 in Avebury Wiltshire, the son of James and Betty (aka Elizabeth) Low (nee Selman), who were married on the 11th May 1799, in Preshute, Wiltshire (Elizabeth was from Ogbourne, St George).
His mother Eliza was born c1811 in Newbury, the daughter of Robert and Mary Parr (nee Woods), who were married on the 2nd August 1808 at St Nicolas, Newbury).
His parents married in 1838
Marriage details:
Place: St Nicolas Church, Newbury
Date: 11th August 1838
Groom: Charles Low, full age, bachelor, occupation, Printer, abode, Newbury
Bride: Eliza Parr, full age, spinster, abode, Newbury
Fathers: James Low, a Gentleman and Robert Parr, a Carpenter
Witnesses: George Parr and Mary Ann Wells
Charles and Eliza also had the following children (all born in Newbury):
Lydia Priscilla born 1841 (died aged 54 in 1895, buried in the NRC, on the 20th September)
Charles Selman born 1843 (died aged 8 months, buried as Charles, on the 9th March 1844, at St Nicolas, Newbury)
Thomas’s mother Eliza died aged 36 in 1847, she was buried on the 12th November, at St Nicolas, Newbury.
His father remarried in 1848
Marriage details:
Place: St Nicolas Church Newbury
Date: 5th December 1848
Groom: Charles Low, widower, occupation, Printer, abode, Newbury
Bride: Eliza Pocock, widow, abode, Newbury
Fathers: James Low, a Licensed Victualler and John Hockley, a Bricklayer
Witnesses: John Hockley and Elizabeth Palmer
Eliza and Charles had a daughter Esther Emma Low born 10th June 1849, in Newbury (married Isaac Bune in 1874 in Newbury, died aged 91 in 1941, buried in the NRC on the 16th May).
Charles died in 1849, (age at death recorded as 40 on the NBI and 37 on the burial record) he was buried on the 29th December, at St Nicolas, Newbury
The 1851 census records Thomas (6) living in Caroline Place, Newbury, with his stepmother Eliza (38), a Seamstress, his sister Lydia (11) and his half-sister Esther (2). (Surname recorded as Jow on ancestry)
Thomas died aged 6, in the Newbury Workhouse in 1851, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 7th May.
Thomas’s family after his death:
His stepmother Eliza remarried in 1857
Marriage details:
Place: Hampstead Marshall
Date: 2nd December 1857
Groom: Solomon Owen, occupation, Labourer
Bride: Eliza Low
Fathers: Thomas Owen, a Labourer and John Hockley, a Bricklayer
Witnesses: Rose Owen and Isaac Waters
In 1861 Eliza (47) was living in Hampstead Marshall, with her husband Solomon (62), a Shepherd, her daughter Esther Lowe (11) and her widowed mother Hannah Hockley (75).
The 1871 census records Eliza (57), Solomon (77), still working as a Shepherd and her mother Hannah Hockley (85), working as a Charwoman, living in Hampstead Marshall.
Solomon died aged 86 on the 30th June 1880, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 3rd July.
Eliza (67) was recorded as a Shopkeeper, in Bartholomew Street, Newbury in the 1881 census.
Eliza died aged 72 on the 18th June 1887, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 22nd June
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