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Personal Details of James Girdler

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Buried:	03/06/1889

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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 Girdler
Date of burial	03/06/1889
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Unconsecrated Common Internment
By whom buried	Reverend J Pate
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 044
Transcription comments	On FBMD

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

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

DEATHS James Girdler

Source:	Newbury Weekly News
Article date:	06/06/1889
Copyright:
Transciption:	Newbury Weekly News Dated 6^th June 1889 GIRDLER – May 30, at Adey’s Buildings, Greenham, James, the son of Charles and Sarah Girdler, aged 3 years
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

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James Girdler 1886-1889

James Girdler

1886-1889

James was born in Newbury the son of Charles and Sarah Girdler (nee Piper) who married in Newbury in 1869. His father was a widower with a daughter Mary Ann aged 5, when he married his mother. (1^st wife Charlotte Curtis, married 1861, widowed 1867)

Charles and Sarah also had the following children:

Rose Emma born 1873 (later known as Rosina, died aged 17 months in 1874, buried on the 20^th July in the Newtown Road Cemetery)

Annie born 1874

Ernest Charles born 1876

Alice born 1879

Kate born 1880

John born 1882

Edith born 1884

William born 1887

Edward born 1889

James’s father was recorded as a Paper Mill Labourer in 1861, a Brewer’s Labourer in 1871 and a Labourer in 1881.

The 1871 census records the family living in Borough Court, Newbury in 1881 they were recorded living in Lisle Court, Newbury.

James died aged 3 on the 30^th May 1889 he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 3^rd June.

James’s father died aged 50 in 1890 he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 12th July.

In 1891 his mother and siblings were living in Falkland Place, Cheap Street, Newbury, his mother was working as a Charwoman.

Sarah remarried in 1894 her 2^nd husband was Joseph Hunt, a widower. By 1901 they were living at 618 Oxford Road Reading and in 1911 they were living at 53 Cranbury Road Reading.

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