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Personal Details of James Walter

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Buried:	20/03/1888

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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.

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	James Walter
Date of burial	20/03/1888
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Conscrated Common Internment
By whom buried	Reverend Cecil Square
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 036
Transcription comments	Name found using other sources

Accounts Entry for James Walter
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

James Walter

Source:	Newbury Weekly News
Article date:	22/03/1888
Copyright:	Newbury Weekly News
Transciption:	JAMES WALTER March 13, at Child’s Almshouses, Newtown Road, Newbury James Walter, aged 74
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

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James Walter

James Walter

c1810-1888

James was born in Woolhampton Berkshire. He married Mary Pegg on the 22^nd April 1820 at St Nicolas Church Newbury, both were widowed and James was recorded as being from Woolhampton. Mary was born c1796 in Newbury.

James and Mary had at least two children, Eliza c1830 and William c1834

James was recorded as a Bricklayer on all census records.

The family were recorded living in Northcroft Lane Newbury in both the 1841 and 1851 census.

Mary died aged 60 in 1855 she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 30^th April.

James was again recorded living in Northcroft Lane in 1871. In the 1881 census he was recorded living in the Rose & Thistle Yard Northcroft Lane.

James died on the 14^th March 1888 (GRO website records age at death 78) he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 20^th March

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