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Personal Details of Stephen Winchcombe

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Buried:	09/03/1888

Listed below are all the details we have been able to find so far on Stephen Winchcombe.

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Birth

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Death

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Burial Register

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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.

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	Stephen Winchcombe
Date of burial	09/03/1888
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Conscrated Common Internment
By whom buried	Reverend N C Parr
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 036
Transcription comments	Name found using other sources

Accounts Entry for Stephen Winchcombe
© 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:	Stephen Winchcomb
Date of death:	07 March 1888
Age at death:	71
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.

Stephen Winchcombe

Source:	Newbury Weekly News
Article date:	15/03/1888
Copyright:	Newbury Weekly News
Transciption:	STEPHEN WINCHCOMBE March 7, at the workhouse, Newbury, Stephen Winchcombe, aged 81
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Stephen Winchcombe.

Stephen Winchcombe

Stephen Winchcomb(e)

c1812-1888

Stephen was born in Wiltshire he was baptised on the 5^th July 1812 in Chilton Foliat Wiltshire and was the son of William and Elizabeth Winchcomb (nee Hunt) who were married in Chilton Foliat in 1799.

Stephen (surname recorded as Winskom) married Mary Ann Pike on the 8^th May 1835 in Chilton Foliat and they had the following children:

Jane c1836

Maria c1838 (died 1840)

Elizabeth c1840

Walter 1846 (died 1848)

Ann c1855

Census records record Stephen as a Labourer (1841), Agricultural Labourer (1851) and a Shepherd (1871 and 1881).

In both the 1841 and 1851 census the family were recorded living in Chilton Foliat.

In the 1871 census Stephen and Mary were recorded living in Leverton Road Eddington (0.8 miles from Hungerford).

In 1881 Stephen was again recorded living in Leverton Road. Mary was recorded as a boarder in the Hungerford Workhouse.

Mary Ann died aged 75 in 1887 in Hungerford

Stephen died on the 7^th March 1888 he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 9^th March.

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