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Personal Details of Sarah Rawlings

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Buried:	30/11/1887

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Birth

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Death

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Burial Register

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Stillborn children were not recorded in the burial register, only in the cemetery accounts.

Memorial Details

	IMO / ?GEORGE RAWLINGS died 2nd Nov. 1876 / also of SARAH wife of the above / who died Nov. 28th 1887 aged 82 years.

Name on Memorial	Sarah Rawlings
Date of death	02/11/1887
Age	82
Gender	Female

Memorial Type
Construction Material
Condition of memorial
Pattison Location Code	P(H) 12
Others named on memorial
George Rawlings

Cemetery accounts

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 Rawlings
Date of burial	30/11/1887
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Unconsecrated Common Internment
By whom buried	Reverend G E Allan
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 034
Transcription comments	On FBMD

Accounts Entry for Sarah Rawlings
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

death - Sarah Rawlings

Source:	nwn
Article date:	01/12/1887
Copyright:
Transciption:	Newbury Weekly News Dated 1^st December 1887 RAWLINGS – November 28, at Bartholomew Almshouses, Sarah Rawlings, aged 82.
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Sarah Rawlings.

Sarah Rawlings c1811-1887

Sarah Rawlings

c1811-1887

According to census records Sarah was born in Mapledurham, Oxfordshire.

She married (as Sarah Wernham/Wornham) George Rawlings, on the 17^th June 1837 at St Mary, (The Minster) Reading, Berkshire. (Witnesses, Mary Ann Howe and Martha Harman)

(According to census records George was born in Calne, Wiltshire. He was baptised on the 25^th December 1814, in Melksham, Wiltshire the son of Isaac (a Mason) and Susannah Rawlins (nee Parsons)

George and Sarah had the following children baptised at St Nicolas Church, Newbury, Berkshire.

Francis baptised 17^th June 1838

Clara baptised 11^th October 1840

Edwin Thomas baptised 1842

Fanny baptised 27^th October 1844

Kate baptised 25^th April 1847

Harriett baptised 26^th August 1849

Frederick, born 29^th September 1850, baptised 20^th April 1851 (died in 1851, buried in the NRC on the 25^th April)

Isaac born 1853 (no baptism found, died soon after birth, buried in the NRC on the 28^th December)

Isaac baptised 30^th September 1855 (died 1856, buried in the NRC on the 1^st February)

George was a Mason (stonemason).

The 1841 census records George (25), Sarah (30), Francis (3) and Clara (1), living in Northbrook Street, Newbury.

In 1851 George (36), Sarah (40), Francis (13), Clara (10), Edwin (8), Fanny (6), Kate (4) and Frederick (6 months), were recorded living at 10, Winchcombe Place, Newbury.

In 1861 George (46), Sarah (50), Clara (20), a Dressmaker and Fanny (17), were living at 23 West Street, Newbury.

In 1871 George (56), Sarah (60), their son Francis (33), a Mason and his wife Mary (28) were recorded living at 23 West Street.

George died aged 62, on the 2^nd November 1876, in West Street, Newbury. He was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 7^th November.

The 1881 census records Sarah (73) living in West Street, with a lodger, Mary Giles (73).

Sarah died aged 82, on the 28^th November 1887. She was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 30^th November.

Mrs P Page 175 Code P(H)12

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