Fanny Absalom

c1830-1862

Fanny was born in Newbury and was the daughter of Charles and Eliza Absalom (nee Knight) who married in St Edmund Salisbury Wiltshire on the 29^th June1825.

Fanny’s mother died aged 34 in 1838 and was buried at St Nicolas Newbury.

Charles was a Grocer and the family lived in the Lamb and Flag Yard Newbury in 1841 and Bartholomew Street in 1851. In 1861 Fanny was visiting her cousin James Absalom and his family in Bartholomew Street.

Fanny died aged 31 in 1862 she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery in September (NBI records burial date 10^th Sept NRC Burial Accounts records burial date 9^th Sept).

Her father died aged 70 in 1867 he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 2^nd January.

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