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Personal Details of Elijah Smith

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Born:
Died:	06/03/1890
Buried:	11/03/1890

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

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Birth

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Death

Name at death

Elijah Smith

Date of death

Age at death

Gender at Death

Male

Cause of Death

Place of Death

Usual Address

Transcriber's comments

Burial service at St. Nicholas Church

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Burial Register

There is no burial register information available for Elijah Smith.
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	Elija Smith
Date of burial	11/03/1890
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Conscrated Common Internment
By whom buried	Reverend W Pheasent
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 048

Accounts Entry for Elijah Smith
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

DEATHS Elijah Smith

Source:	Newbury Weekly News
Article date:	13/03/1890
Copyright:
Transciption:	Newbury Weekly News Dated 13^th March 1890 SMITH – March 6, at 112 Bartholomew-street, Newbury, Elijah Smith in the 86^th year of his age
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Elijah Smith.

Elijah Smith c1804-1890

Elijah Smith

c1804-1890

Elijah was born Woodspeen, Berkshire. He married Ann Newbury on the 31^st January 1837 at St Mary the Virgin, Speen, Berkshire and they had one son, Thomas, born in 1838.

The 1841 census records Ann (40) as a School Mistress living in a Yard off Bartholomew Street, Newbury with her son Thomas aged 3. Elijah doesn’t seem to be recorded in the census for this year.

In 1851 Ann was working as a Nurse in the household of Cornelius Doe and family in Northbrook Street, Newbury. Again Elijah doesn’t seem to be recorded in this census. Thomas doesn’t seem to be recorded in this census either.

The 1861 census records Elijah (56) as a Master Tailor living in Withmills Yard, off Bartholomew Street, Newbury with Ann (61) and Thomas (22), a Carpenter.

Ann died aged 63 in 1862, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 12^th November.

Elijah remarried in 1863, his 2^nd wife was Mary Ann Harris (nee Stagg) a widow. (Mary Ann was born c1817 in East Woodhay, Hampshire. She married Jacob Harris in 1848. Jacob was a Greengrocer/Grocer trading in Bartholomew Street, Newbury. He died in 1862).

Elijah and Mary continued in the grocery business, both the 1871 and 1881 census records record them in Bartholomew Street, Newbury.

Elijah died aged 86 on the 6^th March 1890, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 11^th March.

Mary Ann (74) was recorded in the 1891 census as a Greengrocer at 112 Bartholomew Street, Newbury.

She died aged 75 in 1892 and was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 27^th April.

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