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Buried: | 16/05/1868 |
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There is no burial register information available for Sarah Townsend.
Only three of the five burial register books still exist as far as we know and these are held at the Berkshire Record Office.
Stillborn children were not recorded in the burial register, only in the cemetery accounts.
Flat stone, top of vault: In Memory of / Eliza, Relict of the Rev. May Ellis / Rector of Ickford, Bucks. / died May 6th.1864 aged 56 years / Also Sarah, Relict of Rev. John Charles Townsend / of Newbury, Berks. / died May 10th. 1868 aged 88 years. / Also Charlotte, wife of / Lieutenant Edward Hemsted / 109th. Regiment / died December 22nd. 1868 aged 24 years. / Also of Ellen, wife of / John Whitelock, Esq. / of Owosso, Michigan, U.S.A. / died March 14th. 1870 aged 39 years. / Also Charles Hemsted / of Newbury. / died August 3rd. 1870 aged 36 years. / Also Anne, wife of Stephen Hemsted, Esq., / of Newbury, Berks. / died July 28th. 1876 aged 70 years / and was buried next to this vault on the North side. / Also Anne, wife of W.S.H. May, Esq., died March 1st.1883 aged 37 years. / Buried at Brockley Cemetery / Also Stephen Hemsted of Newbury / died April 10th. 1885 aged 82 years. / Buried on the North side of this vault. // | |
Name on Memorial | Sarah TOWNSEND |
Date of death | 10/05/1868 |
Age | 88 |
Gender | Female |
Memorial Type | Vault covered with a large flat stone flush with ground. |
Construction Material | Sandstone Engraved |
Condition of memorial | Good but easily covered by grass. Lichen over MI in places but can be read. |
Pattison Location Code | ChNW12 page 93 |
Recorder's Notes | The Townsend/Ellis/Hemsted family lived in Bartholomew St., Newbury. See website for obits of Eliza Ellis & her mother, Sarah Townsend. Both wives of vicars. Eliza was the wife of the Vicar of Ickford, Bucks., Rev William May Ellis, MA Christ Church, Oxon, who predeceased her. Charlotte Hemsted was the daughter of Henry Bursey, surgeon & general practitioner in Southwark, (buried elsewhere in NRC but grave not recorded by Mrs P.), & first wife of Lt. Col. Edward Hemsted, son of Anne & Stephen Hemsted snr., Edward is buried in St Peter's, Drayton nr Abingdon. Ellen Whitelock was daughter of Stephen & Anne Hemsted. Charles Hemsted, Ellen's brother, was a Midshipman, RN & 2nd Mate, Merchant Navy. Anne Hemsted, mother to Ellen & Charles, was the d. of Sarah & J.C.Townsend and wife of Stephen MA Oxon, MRCS, JP, surgeon, of Bartholomew St., Newbury, left £9000 to son Stephen Hemsted. She bequeathed land for the building of a meeting room for St George's, Wash Common (see FNRC website). Stephen Hemsted snr. graduated from St John's College, Oxon in 1852. Both Anne & Stephen are buried by the North side of the vault. Anne May was d. of Anne & Stephen Townsend, wife of William Simonds Higgs May, farmer, landowner & gentleman of Reading. Sources: Mrs Pattinson's records were corrected or confirmed by further inspection of the grave & by using records on ancestry uk. The place name Owosso was confirmed using Google. Anne May's burial is recorded at Brockley Cemetery https://www.deceasedonline.com/servlet/GSDOSearch. |
Others named on memorial | |
Eliza ELLIS | |
Charlotte HEMSTED | |
Ellen WHITELOCK | |
Charles HEMSTED | |
Anne HEMSTED | |
Anne MAY | |
Stephen HEMSTED |
This information is taken from the accounts ledgers of the Newbury Cemetery Company that originally ran and maintained the cemetery.
The Ledgers are held at the Berkshire Records Office.
Name at death | Sarah Townsend |
Date of burial | 16/05/1868 |
Whence brought | Newbury |
Where & how buried | Consecrated - Family Vault |
By whom buried | Rev'd. J.L. Randall |
Account Entry | Book 1 - Page 95 |
Accounts Entry for Sarah Townsend
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The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.
Source: | Newbury Weekly News and Mrs Pattison |
Article date: | 14/05/1868 |
Copyright: | Newbury Weekly News |
Transciption: | THE LATE MRS TOWNSEND The funeral will take place, we believe, on Saturday next, at the Cemetery. |
Source: | Bucks Herald |
Article date: | 16/05/1868 |
Copyright: | Bucks Herald |
Transciption: | Townsend—On the 10th inst., Newbury, Berks, Sarah, relict of the Rev. John Charles Townsend, late rector of Ickford, in her 89th year. |
Source: | The Globe |
Article date: | 04/01/1851 |
Copyright: | The Globe |
Transciption: | Rev. John Charles Townsend, of Newbury. Berks, attended morning prayers at St. Mary's chapel, Speenhamland. with his daughter. While kneeling in the pew by her side the unfortunate gentleman, who of advanced age*, fell and expired. |
This obituary entry is awaiting verification. |
Source: | Reading Mercury |
Article date: | 29/10/1854 |
Copyright: | Reading Mercury |
Transciption: | HUNGERFORD. BERKS.— Particulars FREEHOLD TENEMENTS, and advantageous SITES for Building, the High Street and Church Lane, Hungerford, Berks. —By direction of the surviving Devisee in Trust, with power of sale, under the will of the Rev. John Charles Townsend, deceased, |
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