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Personal Details of Mary Goddard

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Born:
Died:	24/02/1890
Buried:	27/02/1890

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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	Mary Blanked Out
Date of burial	27/02/1890
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Unconsecrated Common Internment
By whom buried	Reverend G J Knight
Account remarks	burial date is a guestimate
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 048

Accounts Entry for Mary Goddard
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

DEATHS Mary Goddard

Source:	NWN
Article date:	27/02/1890
Copyright:
Transciption:	Newbury Weekly News Dated 27^th February 1890 GODDARD:-Feb, 24, at St Mary’s Almshouses, Mary Goddard, aged 82.
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Mary Goddard.

Mary Goddard

Mary Goddard

c1807-1890

Mary was born in Rushall Wiltshire she was baptised on the 7^th August 1807 in Rushall the daughter of Job (a Labourer) and Charlotte Watts (nee Bath) who married on the 6^th August 1804 in Manningford Bruce Wiltshire.

Job and Charlotte also had the following children (all baptised in Rushall except Joseph who was baptised in Manningford Bruce):

Joseph 2^nd December 1804

Katharine 28^th October 1810

Moses 9^th march 1813

John 22^nd January 1815

Benjamin 31^st August 1817

Ann 12^th September 1822

Mary’s parents and her sister Ann were recorded living in Rushall in 1841. Her mother died aged 66 in 1843, she was buried in Rushall on the 2^nd March. Her father died aged 69 in 1845, he was buried in Rushall on the 7^th February.

The 1851 census records Mary (41) as a Domestic Servant living in London Street, Basingstoke, Hampshire the home of a Marianne and Alfred Johnson (38). Alfred was an Independent Minister of London Street Chapel.

Mary married Daniel Goddard (a Gardener, born c1794 in Farnham Surrey) in 1861 (marriage registered March quarter in Newbury).

(Daniel was a widower, his 1^st wife Elizabeth died aged 79 in 1860, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 3^rd December. Daniel married Elizabeth Wallis on the 21^st February 1813 at St Mary’s Church Thatcham both single and were both from Greenham)

The 1861 census records Mary (53) and Daniel (67) living at 3 The Folley, Stroud Green, Newbury. The 1871 census records them living in Garland’s Yard, Newbury.

Daniel died aged 83 in 1876, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 4^th August.

The 1881 census records Mary (73) living at 15 Cheap Street, Newbury also recorded in the household was a visitor, Lucy Kemp (61), a Nurse.

Mary died aged 82 on the 24^th February 1890 she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery

The Newbury Weekly News dated the 27^th February 1890 recorded the following:

Vacant Almshouse: - A vacancy occurs in St Mary’s Almshouses caused by the death of Mary Goddard, at the age of 82.

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