Personal Details of Mary Ann May
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| Buried: | 22/03/1886 |
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| Name at death | Mary Ann May |
| Date of burial | 22/03/1886 |
| Whence brought | Newbury |
| Where & how buried | Conscrated Common Internment |
| By whom buried | Reverend Cecil Square |
| Account Entry | Book 02 - Page 024 |
| Transcription comments | Not on Free BMD. Unable to read surname |
Accounts Entry for Mary Ann May
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission
Accounts Entry for Mary Ann May
Newspaper Cuttings
The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.
Mary Ann May
| Source: | Newbury Weekly News and General Advertiser |
| Article date: | 25/03/1886 |
| Copyright: | Newbury Weekly News |
| Transciption: | MARY ANN MAY SUDDEN DEATH.--A case of sudden of death occurred last Friday, at No. 11, Church Almshouses, when Mary Ann May, aged 54, was found dead in her bed. Deceased lived with her father, who is an almsman. She had suffered for years from a spinal complaint, for which she had received medical advice, but not recently. On Thursday she was about as usual, and remarked to Martha Rumbold, a next door neighbour, that she had not been very well for two or three days. She had bread and butter and tea for supper, and retired to bed about nine o'clock. The next morning (Friday), about nine o'clock, her father called her, but as she did not answer, he shook her and found she was dead. The father had heard deceased cough that morning shortly before six o'clock. These facts having been deposed in evidence before the coroner (Mr. Watson, Esq., M.D.), and a jury, of whom Mr. Charles Samuels was foreman, at the inquest held on Friday night at the "London Apprentice," a verdict was returned of "death from natural causes," the Coroner giving it as his opinion that deceased had passed away in her sleep.
Newbury Weekly News and General Advertiser - Thursday 25 March 1886 |
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Biographical Information
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Mary Ann May
Mary Ann May
c1834-1886
Mary was born in Newbury c1834, she was baptised on the 12th January 1834 at St Nicolas Church Newbury and was the daughter of Henry and Sarah May (nee Rowles) who were married on the 4th February 1833 in St Nicolas Church Newbury, Sarah was a widow (her previous husband was George May).
Mary had a half-sister Ann, born c1827 and a half-brother, Charles, born c1828 and five siblings, Henry born 1836, George born 1840, Sarah Ann born 1842 and twins James and Ellen born 1844.
In 1841 the family were living in Golding’s Yard Thatcham and Mary’s father Henry was working as a Butcher. By 1851 the family had moved to Newbury (Taylor’s Yard) and by 1861 they were living in Bartholomew Street Newbury. Mary was not at home at the time of this census, she was recorded visiting her cousin Mrs Lydia Pierce in Pancras Midddlesex. The 1871 census records Henry, Sarah and their daughter Mary Ann still living in Bartholomew Street.
Mary’s mother Sarah May died aged 74 in 1878 she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 8th January.
In the 1881 census Mary was recorded as a Housekeeper and was again recorded living with her father in Bartholomew Street.
Mary Ann died aged 54 in 1886 and was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 22nd March.
Her father Henry May died aged 85 on the 30th October 1889 and was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 4th November.
Author: Christine Gambles
© Christine Gambles
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