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Mary Smith
c1772-1851
According to the 1851 census Mary (surname unknown) was born in Orsett, Essex.
In 1815 Mary (45) was living on the west side of Mary Hill, Newbury, Berkshire, with her husband Joseph Smith (40), a Tailor, their children, Ann (12), William (6), Hannah (4) and two orphan children, Frances Smith (11) and Mary Smith (13).
Mary was widowed in 1837, Joseph died aged 61, he was buried on the 20th January, at St Nicolas, Newbury.
The 1851 census records Mary (76) as a Tailor’s Widow/Almshouse Woman, living in St Bartholomew’s Almshouses, Newbury, Berkshire. Her grandsons, Charles Chandler (15), an Apprentice Boat Builder and James Chandler (11), were recorded living with her. (They were the sons of her married daughter Ann and her husband John. Surname mistakenly recorded as Channels on ancestry)
Mary died aged 79 in 1851. She was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 3rd October.
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