Personal Details of Mary Rand

 

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Died:  
Buried:  18/02/1891

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Burial Register

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Memorial Details
  J R 1865 M R 1891
 
Name on Memorial Mary Rand
Date of death 18/02/1891
Age 77
Gender Female
 
Memorial Type footstone
Construction Material stone
Condition of memorial
Pattison Location Code LN(X)1
Others named on memorial
Joseph Rand

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Cemetery accounts

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The Ledgers are held at the Berkshire Records Office.

Name at death Mary Rand
Date of burial 18/02/1891
Whence brought Newbury
Where & how buried Consecrated Private Grave
By whom buried Reverend E J Gardner
Account Entry Book 02 - Page 055
Transcription comments On FBMD

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


Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

Mary and Joseph Rand
Source: NWN
Article date: 26/02/1891
Copyright:
Transciption:

Mary and Joseph Rand


Mary and Joseph Rand

The death of Mrs. Rand removes another of our oldest inhabitants, and one who for many years has carried on the business in the little old-fashioned shop in the Market-place, now the almost remaining reminder of the old condition of things. Mrs. Rand was a kindly old lady, who would always be ready to have a little gossip over old times and the degeneracy of the present. She was a regular and earnest attendant at the Parish Church, and a firm believer in Horniman'a tea, for the sale of which she was the agent for many years. Although of late years there has been great advance made in the character and make of surgical appliances, Mrs. Rand continued her business as heretofore without much recognition of the fact that the world had moved on ; indeed I am inclined to think she profited far more by presiding over a registry office, where mistresses knew they could always be sure of good servants, and servants of kind mistresses.

Talking of Mrs. Rand carries one back to Mr. Joseph Rand. who was the founder of the business. He was a Quaker of whom there were then several families in the town, their meeting place being down a passage near Craven-street, the old sanctuary having new been disused for many years, and used for some time as a candle warehouse. Mr. Rand was moreover a devoted disciple of Isaac Walton, many a fine fish having fallen a prey to his rod in the good old days. He lived a peaceful life and died in Kimbers Almshouses. His son succeeded him. and in those days was considered quite an authority on matters scientific. Electricity was then in its infancy, but Mr. Rand was a diligent and practical student. He was troubled by a man who persistently rung his door bell, so he switched on an electric current, and next time the man wished he hadn't rung the bell. The business of Mr. Rand jun., was to supply people with glasses—for their eyes, and he was very proud of his skill as an optician, a pride that was shared by his widow to the last. It is said that in order to test the power of his glasses, he would require his customers to stand at his shop door, and endeavour  to discover the small dial that was then visible in a chimney stack at the other end of the Market-place.

NWN  26 Feb. 1891


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Biographical Information

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Mary and Joseph Rand

Joseph Rand was born in 1792. His first wife was Anne 1782 to 1843 and his second wife was Mary 1814 to 1891.

Joseph Rand died on the 17th of March 1865 in the marketplace at Newbury.  He was an optician and cause of death was ramolissement of the brain/ paralysis.

They lived at cheap street and he had a shop as an optician in the marketplace . He was a philosophical instrument maker and a worker in metal.

They were members of the Society of friends and are buried in the Anglican area?.

He left under 300 pounds to Mary Rand, the widow, who took over as an optician and ran the business for 20 years or more . Mary Rand was born in nottingford Hampshire in 1813 .

Mary Rand died in 1891 and they are buried in the same grave . The inscription is obliterated but the footstone says J R 1864 and M R 1891

Author: D Clow
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