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Personal Details of Henry May

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Buried:	04/11/1889

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

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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	Henry May
Date of burial	04/11/1889
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Conscrated Common Internment
By whom buried	Reverend Llewellyn Bevan
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 046
Transcription comments	On FBMD

Accounts Entry for Henry May
© 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:	Henry May
Date of death:	30 October 1889
Age at death:	85
Parish from which they were admitted to the workhouse:	Newbury
Where buried:	Newbury Cemetery
Workhouse Master:	William Hawkes
Comments:

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

Henry William May

Source:	Newbury Weekly News
Article date:	07/11/1889
Copyright:	Newbury Weekly News
Transciption:	HENRY WILLIAM MAY MAY- October 31^st at the Church Almshouses, Newtown-road, Newbury, Henry May, aged 85 years
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Henry May.

Henry William May

Henry William May

c1804-1889

Henry was born in London Middlesex c1804.

On 4^th February 1833 Henry married Sarah May (a widow, maiden name Rowles) in Newbury and they had the following children:

Mary Ann born c1834 baptised 12th Jan 1834 at St Nicolas Church Newbury

Henry William born c1836 baptised 21^st Feb 1836 at St Nicolas Church Newbury

George born 1840

Sarah Ann born 1842

Twins James and Ellen born 1844 (Ellen died aged 2 in 1846)

In 1841 the family were living in Golding’s Yard Thatcham and Henry was working as a Butcher (he continued working in this profession his whole life). By 1851 the family had moved Newbury (Taylor’s Yard) and by 1861 they were living in Bartholomew Street Newbury.

Henry's wife Sarah died aged 74 in 1878, she was laid to rest on the 8^th January in the Newtown Road Cemetery.

In 1881 Henry and his daughter Mary Ann were still living in Bartholomew Street and Henry was still working.

Henry’s daughter Mary Ann died aged 54 in 1886 and was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 22^nd March.

Henry died aged 85 on the 30^th October 1889 and was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 4^th November.

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