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Personal Details of Jane Cook

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Buried:	20/03/1888

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

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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	Jane Cook
Date of burial	20/03/1888
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Conscrated Common Internment
By whom buried	Reverend W Pheasent
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 036

Accounts Entry for Jane Cook
© 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:	Jane Cook
Date of death:	15 March 1888
Age at death:	86
Parish from which they were admitted to the workhouse:	Greenham
Where buried:	Newbury Cemetery
Workhouse Master:	William Hawkes
Comments:

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

Jane Cook

Source:	Newbury Weekly News
Article date:	22/03/1888
Copyright:	Newbury Weekly News
Transciption:	JANE COOK March 15, at the workhouse, Newbury, Jane Cook, aged 86, late of Greenham

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Jane Cook.

Jane Cook

Jane Cook

c1801-1888

Jane was baptised on the 8^th December 1801 at St Peter and St Paul Marlborough Wiltshire she was the daughter of Thomas and Hannah Cook (nee Cook) who were married on the 22^nd April 1799 in Overton Wiltshire.

Thomas and Hannah also had the following children:

Alice born 22/6/1800 baptised 5/1/1801 Marlborough

Michael baptised 15/8/1805 Marlborough

In both the 1851 and 1861 census Jane was recorded as a Milliner and Dressmaker living in Northbrook Street Newbury.

In 1871 she was recorded as a relative visiting James and Caroline Tubb at 1 Mount Villa Newbury.

In the 1881 census Jane was recorded as a Pauper in the Newbury Workhouse.

Jane died aged 86 on the15th March 1888 she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 20^th March.

Also records on Workhouse records at www.fnrcnewbury.org.uk/persondetails .asp?PersonID=4972

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