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Personal Details of Jeremiah Knapp

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Buried:	25/01/1888

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Burial Register

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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	Jeremaih Knapp
Date of burial	25/01/1888
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Conscrated Common Internment
By whom buried	Reverend N C Parr
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 035
Transcription comments	Name derived from other sources

Accounts Entry for Jeremiah Knapp
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Workhouse Records

This information was taken from the Newbury Workhouse records currently held at the Berkshire Record Office.

Name:	Jeremiah Knapp
Date of death:	22 January 1888
Age at death:	68
Parish from which they were admitted to the workhouse:	Newbury
Where buried:	Newbury Cemetery
Workhouse Master:	William Hawkes
Comments:

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

Jeremiah Knapp

Source:	Newbury Weekly News
Article date:	26/01/1888
Copyright:	Newbury Weekly News
Transciption:	JEREMIAH KNAPP Knapp - Jan 22 at the workhouse, Newbury, Jeremiah Knapp aged 68
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

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Jeremiah Knapp

Jeremiah Knapp

c1821-1888

Jeremiah was born in Berkshire he was baptised on the 7^th February 1821 in Great Bedwyn and was the son of Thomas and Ann Knapp (nee Dangerfield) who were married in Marlborough on the 14^th June 1802. Thomas was born c1774 in Little Bedwyn and was a Blacksmith. Ann was born in Marlborough c1777.

Thomas and Ann also had the following children:

Harriet baptised 30^th July 1803 Marlborough

Eliza baptised 15^th July 1805 Great Bedwyn

Thomasin baptised 19^th Feb 1809 Great Bedwyn

George baptised 17^th Feb 1811 Great Bedwyn

Charles baptised 4^th Feb 1813 Great Bedwyn

James baptised 10^th March 1816 Great Bedwyn

William baptised 11^th March 1818 Great Bedwyn

Jeremiah was an Agricultural Labourer he only seems to be recorded on the 1861 and 1881 census records. In 1861 he was recorded as married (wife recorded as Elizabeth aged 26 born Bridgenorth Shropshire) living in Upper Arley, Staffordshire. In 1881 he was recorded as: Married, Farm Labourer, Boarder, in the Hungerford Workhouse.

Jeremiah died aged 68 on the 22^nd January 1888 in the Newbury Workhouse he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the on the 25^th January.

Also on NRC Newbury Workhouse records : www.fnrcnewbury.org.uk/persondetails.asp?PersonID=5068

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