Unnamed (stillborn) Purdue

1865-1865

This child’s parents were Eliza and Edmund Purdue (nee Chappell) who were married on the 24^th November 1864.

The child’s family:

Father: Edmund was a Carpenter. He was baptised on the 21^st May 1823, at St Nicolas Church Newbury, the son of George & Mary Purdue (nee Cook) who married on the 5^th February 1823 at St Nicolas Church Newbury. He married his 1^st wife, Ann Everest in 1845, in Newbury. They had the following children: Edmund and Ann had the following children: David William Everest born 1840 (Ann’s illegitimate son), Edmund,1845 (died 1847), William George, 1846, Henry, 1850, Alfred 1852 (died 1856) and Mary Ann, 1854 (died 1855). Edmund was widowed in 1862.

Mother: Eliza was baptised on the 18^th December 1831, in Berkley, Gloucestershire, the daughter of George, a Chaise Driver (the driver of a two wheeled carriage called a chaise) and Elizabeth Chappell, of Newport. George married Eliza’s mother Elizaeth Frape in 1830 in Gloucestershire.

Full siblings:

George 1866

Thomas 1868

Arthur 1870      

Elizabeth Mary 1873            

John 1875

The family were recorded living in Railway Terrace, Newbury in 1871, 1881 and 1891.

Edmund died aged 77 in 1900 in Newbury. He was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 1^st November.

The 1901 census records Eliza living in Railway Terrace with her youngest two sons Arthur and John.

The 1911 census records Eliza (79) living with her son Thomas and his family at Cromer, Bradville Road, West Drayton Middlesex.

Eliza died aged 85 on the 18^th December 1916 she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 23^rd December (at the time of her death she was recorded living at 4 Pleasant Place St John’s Road Newbury).

The child was buried in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 1^st July 1865.

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