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Personal Details of Timothy Knight

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Buried:	09/12/1889

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Birth

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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	Timothy Knight
Date of burial	09/12/1889
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Unconsecrated Common Internment
By whom buried	Reverend S R Wilkins
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 046
Transcription comments	On FBMD

Accounts Entry for Timothy Knight
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

Timothy Knight

Source:	Newbury Weekly News
Article date:	12/12/1889
Copyright:	Newbury Weekly News
Transciption:	THE LATE TIMOTHY KNIGHT – Passing away on Wednesday at the patriarchal age of 97, Timothy Knight was laid to rest in Newbury Cemetery on Monday. “Timothy”, for such he was always called, was the oldest local preacher in the Newbury Circuit of the Wesleyan Methodist Connexion, his name, as we understand, having appeared on the plan for seventy years. He had a quaint racy style, and his homely scriptural style of preaching was much enjoyed by the country people. He was employed for many years by the firm of Messrs. J.H. Mason and Co., and subsequently by Mr. Henry Mason, but his declining days were spent in the quiet enjoyment of an almshouse.

Biographical Information

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Timothy Knight

TIMOTHY KNIGHT

Timothy Knight led a long life, and was married three times, and had seven children altogether. He was born to Elizabeth Campbell and John Knight, who married in 1791, probably in Newbury, and he had two brothers and two sisters. His NRC entry already shows that he was widely known as a long-time Methodist preacher in Newbury, and he worked as a carter and later grocer’s porter. His later years were spent in St Bartholomew’s Almshouses, where he died at the age of 97.

His first wife was Mary Campbell; they married in 1814 in Shalbourne, Wiltshire - Mary died 18 years later; they had two children. In November 1835 he married Anna Maria Challis, in Combe, Hampshire, and they also had two children. Anna died only three years later in 1839, and in October that year he married Martha Ann Skull/Scull. Their marriage lasted fifty years until he died in 1889; they had three children.

Born 1793 Shalbourne Wilts

Married Martha Ann Skull/Scull 6 Oct 1839 Thatcham

Buried NRC 9 Dec 1889 common grave

Occupation Grocer’s porter

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