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Personal Details of Benjamin Prince

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Buried:	09/05/1889

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Burial Register

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Cemetery accounts

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Name at death	Benjamin Prince
Date of burial	09/05/1889
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Conscrated Common Internment
By whom buried	Reverend W Pheasent
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 044
Transcription comments	On FBMD

Accounts Entry for Benjamin Prince
© 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:	Benjamin Prince
Date of death:	07 May 1889
Age at death:	55
Parish from which they were admitted to the workhouse:	Winterbourne
Where buried:	Newbury Cemetery
Workhouse Master:	William Hawkes
Comments:

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

deaths

Source:	nwn
Article date:	16/05/1889
Copyright:
Transciption:	Newbury Weekly News Dated 16^th May 1889 Prince – May 7, at the Workhouse, Newbury, Benjamin Prince, aged 55 years.
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

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Benjamin Prince 1837-1889

Benjamin Prince

1837-1889

Benjamin Prince was born in 1837, he was baptised on the 27^thAugust 1837, in Chieveley, Berkshire, the son of Jeremiah and Lucy Prince (nee Hopson) who were married on the 19^thJune 1830, in Chieveley.

Benjamin’s father Jeremiah was born in Winterbourne, Berkshire. He was baptised on the 18^thAugust 1805, (as Jerrey) in Chieveley, the son of Samuel and Hannah Prince (nee Brooker) who were married on the 7^thDecember 1801, in Chieveley (Samuel was from Leckhampstead).

His mother Lucy was born on the 2^ndJune 1807, she was baptised on the 7^thJune 1807, in Chieveley, the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Hopson (nee Whitehorn) who were married on the 4^thJuly 1796, at St Mary, Reading, Berkshire.

Jeremiah and Lucy also had the following children:

Hester Prince, baptised 21^st November 1830 (Mother Lucy, no father’s name recorded)

Ann, baptised 19^thMay 1831, in Chieveley (died aged 6, in 1837, buried 9^th Aug. at St James the Less Winterbourne)

Eliza, baptised 9^thOctober 1832, in Chieveley

Elizabeth, baptised 2^ndFebruary 1834, in Chieveley (died aged 1 month, buried 6^th February, at St James the Less, Winterbourne)

James, baptised 25^thApril 1835, in Chieveley

Mary Ann, born 1839, baptised 2^ndFebruary 1840, in Winterbourne

Ellen, born 1842, baptised 4^thSeptember 1842, in Winterbourne

Ann, born 1844, baptised 3^rd November 1844, in Chieveley

In 1841 Benjamin (3) was recorded living in North Heath, Chieveley, Berkshire, with his father Jeremiah (35), an Agricultural Labourer, his mother Lucy (35), his brother James (6), his sisters, Eliza (9) and Mary Ann (18 months), his grandfather Samuel Prince (65) and his uncle, James Price (30), both Agricultural Labourers.

Benjamin’s mother Lucy died aged 40, in 1847, she was buried on the 29^thAugust, at St James the Less, Winterbourne.

The 1851 census records Benjamin (14) and his sisters, Esther (19), (Hester) Ellen (14), Mary Ann (12) and Ann (7), as inmates in the Newbury Workhouse. His widowed father Jerry (45) was working as an Agricultural Labourer for a Farmer, James Hopkins (47), in Chilton Foliat, Berkshire.

No census records found for Benjamin in 1861 or 1871.

UK Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner Admissions and Discharges 1715-1925 record Benjamin having been a Private in the Cape Mounted Riflemen Regiment in receipt of a pension dated 11^th June 1861.

The 1881 census records Ben (43) as a Labourer, lodging in a public house in the High Street, Brentford, Middlesex.

Benjamin died aged 55, in the Newbury Workhouse, on the 7^thMay 1889. He was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 9^thMay.

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