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Buried:	17/05/1889

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Cemetery accounts

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Name at death	Thomas North
Date of burial	17/05/1889
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Conscrated Common Internment
By whom buried	Reverend R Dunn
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 044
Transcription comments	On FBMD

Accounts Entry for Thomas North
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

DEATHS - Thomas North

Source:	Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette
Article date:	18/05/1889
Copyright:
Transciption:	Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette Dated 18^th May 1889 NORTH- May 13, at Church Almshouses, Newbury, Thomas North aged 89 years.
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

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Thomas North 1800-1889

Thomas North

1800-1889

Thomas was born on the 23^rd January 1800, he was baptised on the 16^th February 1800 at St Nicolas Church, Newbury, Berkshire, the son of Thomas and Norah/Leonora North (nee Nalder) who were married on the 11^th August 1788, at St Nicolas, Newbury.

The 1815 census of Newbury records Thomas (15), living in Chubb’s Yard, on the west side of Bartholomew Street, Newbury, with his father Thomas (48), a Chair Maker, his mother Leonora ((48), his sister Sarah (21) and his brothers, John (19), Edward (13), William (12), James (9) and Charles (7).

Thomas married Hannah Dibley on the 15^th January 1823, at St Nicolas, Newbury.

They had the following children baptised at St Nicolas, Newbury:
William, 14^th December 1823

Eliza, 25^th December 1824 (died aged 6 months, buried 19^th August 1825 at St Nicolas Newbury)

Henry, 20^th June 1826

Thomas, 16^th November 1828

Charles, 15^th May 1831 (died aged 2, buried 10^th Oct 1832 at St Nicolas Newbury)

Sarah, 4^th August 1833

Eliza, 25^th December 1836 (did aged 1 year 6 months, buried 8^th September 1837 at St Nicolas Newbury)

and

John, born 1838

Caroline, born 1840

Thomas was recorded as a Labourer in his early working life, the 1841-1881 census records record him as a Plasterer.

The 1841 census records Thomas (35), Anna (35) (Hannah), William (15), a Plasterer’s Labourer, Henry (14), Thomas (10), Sarah (5) and John (2), living in Old Newtown Road, Newbury.

Thomas (51), Hannah (53), William (27) a Plasterer, John (12) and Caroline (10) were again recorded living in Old Newtown Road, in 1851.

Hannah died aged 54 in 1852, she was buried on the 5th November 1852, in the Newtown Road Cemetery, Newbury, Berkshire.

Thomas remarried in 1853

Marriage details:

Place: St Nicolas Church, Newbury

Date: 21^st August 1853

Groom: Thomas North, full age, widower, occupation, Plasterer, abode, Newbury.

Bride: Maria White, full age, widow, abode, Newbury

Fathers: Thomas North, a Chair Maker and James Wiggens, a Labourer

Witnesses: George Stillman and John Sheppard

Bride and Groom made their mark

(Maria was born on the 21^st April 1810, she was baptised on the 13^th May 1810 at St Mary, Greenham, Berkshire, the daughter of James and Martha Wiggins (nee Bowles) who were married on the 23^rd August 1806, at St Mary, Greenham (James was a widower) Maria had an illegitimate son, George, born in 1829, in Greenham, she married Samuel Tidbury in 1834 and was widowed in 1835. She remarried in 1837, her 2^nd husband was John White, John died in 1851).

The 1861 census records Thomas (61), living in the Independent Chapel Yard, Northbrook Street, Newbury, with Maria (55).

In 1871 Thomas (70) and Maria (61), were recorded living at 49 Northcroft Lane, Newbury.

The 1881 census records Thomas (81) and Maria (70), living at 8 New Church Almshouses, Newbury.

Maria died aged 74 on the 31^st January 1885, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 4^th February.

Thomas died aged 89 on the 13^th May 1889, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 17^th May.

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