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Thomas Smith
c1760-1851
According to the 1841 census Thomas was born in Berkshire.
In 1815 Thomas (50), his wife Susanna (34) and their new born daughter, (not yet named, later baptised Jane Ann, on the 14th June 1815, at St Nicolas Church, Newbury) were living on the west side of Mary Hill, Newbury.
Jane Ann died aged 16 months, she was buried on the 28th August 1816, at St Nicolas, Newbury.
In 1841 Thomas (75) was recorded as a Chair Maker, living in Mary Hill St, Newbury, Berkshire, with his wife Sarah (60), his widowed daughter-in-law Sarah Smith (40), and her children Thomas Smith (16), Eliza Smith (12) and Henry Smith (11).
His daughter-in-law Sarah died aged 42 in 1843. She was buried on the 6th September at St Nicolas Newbury
His wife Susannah died in 1846 in Newbury.
The 1851 census records Thomas (90), a Chair Maker (birth place unknown) as an inmate in the Newbury Workhouse.
Thomas died aged 91, in the Newbury Workhouse in 1851. He was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 19th April
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