Edward Small

c1774-1851

Edward was baptised on the 18^th May 1777 in Aldbourne, Wiltshire, the son of John and Hannah Small of Baydon, Wiltshire.

(Possible marriage for Edward’s parents, not proved: John Small and Hannah Thatcher, East Garston, Berkshire in 1767)

John and Hannah also had the following children baptised in Baydon:

Thomas, 5^th February 1769

John, 6^th January 1771

Anne, 2^nd October 1774

Elizabeth and Phoebe, 7^th May 1780

Maria and William, 27^th June 1784

Possible death for Edward’s father: John, died in 1800, buried on the 27^th November, at St Nicholas, Baydon.

Possible death for his mother Hannah: died 81 in 1819, buried on the 8^th December, at St Nicholas, Baydon.

By 1851 Edward was a widower (no confirmed marriage found). The census for this year records him as an Agricultural Labourer, aged 76, in the Newbury Workhouse.

Edward died aged 77 in 1851. He was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 19^th July

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