Kate Agnes Bristow(e)

1892-1897

Kate Agnes was born c1892, in Newbury, Berkshire. She was baptied on the 9^th March 1892, at St Nicolas Church, Newbury, the daughter of Albert Henry and Rosa Ellen Bristow (nee Arnold)

Kate Agnes died aged 5, on the 2^nd February 1897, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 6^th February.

Kate Agnes’ family:

Her father Albert Henry was born on the 12^th March 1859 in Worcestershire, the son of Henry James and Sarah Elizabeth Bristow (nee Thorn) who were married in 1850 (married registered in Warminster, Wiltshire)

Her mother Rose Ellen was born in 1860, she was baptised on the 5^th November 1862, (as Rosa Ellen), in Thatcham, Berkshire, the illegitimate daughter of Rebekah Arnold. Rebekah married Charles White on the 16^th October 1862, in Thatcham, Berkshire. 1871 and 1881 census records record Rosa’s surname as White.

Rose Ellen Arnold had an illegitimate daughter, Augusta Rose Arnold, born on the 26^th March 1879, in the Newbury Workhouse. (Augusta was later known as Rose and Rose Augusta)

Rosa Ellen and Albert Henry were married in 1884

Marriage details:

Place: St Nicolas Church, Newbury, Berkshire

Date: 4^th August 1884

Groom: Albert Henry Bristow, aged 25, bachelor, occupation, Chairmaker, abode, of the parish

Bride: Rosa Ellen Arnold, aged 23, spinster

Fathers: Henry James Bristow, a Shoemaker.  No bride’s father named

Witnesses: Stephen Wild and Sarah Loveridge
(Stephen Wild was Rosa Ellen’s stepfather, he married her widowed mother, Rebecca White in 1874)

Kate Agnes’ siblings were (all baptised at St Nicolas, Newbury):

Henry James born 24^th February 1885, baptised 15^th June 1886

Ellen Louisa, born c1886, baptised with her brother Henry James on the 15^th June 1886 (died aged 13 months, in 1887, buried in the NRC on the 26^th February)    

Frank, born 8^th March 1887, baptised 18^th September 1888

May Florence, born 1888, baptised with her brother Frank, on the 18^th September 1888

Emily Annie, born in 1890, in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, baptised with Kate Agnes on the 9^th March 1892

Albert Edward, born 17^th December 1892, baptised on the 20^th June 1893 (died aged 8 months, buried in the NRC on the 5^th August 1893)

Edith Ann, born 7^th January 1894, baptised 20^th February 1894

Sarah Lucy, born 17^th December 1894, baptised 19^th February 1895 (died 1895, buried in the NRC (as Sarah Ann) on the 1^st August 1895   

Bertha, born 1896, baptised 4^th February 1897 (died aged 16 months, buried in the NRC on the 14^th February 1898)    

  Elsie Margaret, born 24^th February 1901, baptised 2^nd July 1901  

In 1901 Albert (42), a Chairmaker, Rosa (40) and their children, Henry (16), Frank (14), May (13), Emily (10), Edith (7) and (not yet named) Elsie Margaret, aged 1 month, were living at 1, Falkland-place, Newbury.

The 1911 census records Albert (52), a Chairmaker, Rosa (49) and their children, Henry James (26), a Chairmaker and Elsie (10), living in Crowfield, Newtown, Thatcham. (Surname mistakenly recorded as Bristone on ancestry)

Rosa Ellen died aged 74, on the 17^th July 1935. At the time of her death, she was living in St John’s Road, Thatcham. She was buried on the 20^th July, at St Mary’s Church Cemetery, in Thatcham, Berkshire.

The 1939 Register records Albert Henry as a Pensioner, living at 7 Southend, Cold Ash, Berkshire, with his son, Henry James and Alice M. M. Bristow.

Albert Henry died aged 81, on the 11^th October 1940. At the time of his death, he was living at 7 South End, Cold Ash, Berkshire. He was buried on the 15^th October, at St Mary, Thatcham.

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