William Fisher

c1775-1851

According to the 1851 census William was born in Bucklebury, Berkshire. (Possible baptism: 1777 in Bucklebury, parents, Robert and Martha Fisher (nee Greenaway), married in 1762 in Berkshire)

In 1841 William (75), a Labourer and a Sarah Fisher (60) were living in Church Almshouses, Newbury, Berkshire.

In 1851 William (80), a widower, was recorded as an Agricultural Labourer/Almshouseman, living in a Church Almshouse, Newbury. His daughter Sarah Fisher (36), born in Wiltshire, was recorded living with him.

William died in 1851 He was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 31^st December. (Age at death recorded as 76 on the GRO and 80 on the NBI)

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