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Monument Details
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Headstone;footstone |
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Headstone: In / Loving Memory of / Jeremiah Aldridge / who died March 19th. 1880 / aged 71 years. / Also of / Mary his wife / who died Augst. 30th. 1880 / aged 68 years. / With God. / " ------------will God ---" // Footstone: J.A. / 1880 / M.A. 1880
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Covered in lichen. Cracks in face, large vertical crack in headstone. Parts of MI in danger. Weathered away at base of headstone & footstone |
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Jeremiah Aldridge: Born & raised in Great Bedwyn, Wilts where he married Mary nee Cogan, a local woman, in 1833. Both signed the register with their mark. 7 daughters & 1 son, lived in Brook St, Great Bedwyn & Jeremiah was a Boatman. 1851 & 6 census records, Mary living alone with the children in Brook St. Jeremiah, unrecorded in 1851, was a labourer in Bristol Docks in 1861. A Jeremiah Aldridge was acquitted of larceny in 1854 in the Wilts. Assize Court. Living in Newbury by the 1871 Census working as the Lock keeper and living with Mary & daughter Fanny, a Pupil Teacher, in the Lock Shutter's Cottage. Source: Ancestry records.
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01 January 2023 |
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