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Personal Details of Matilda Lawrence

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Buried:	08/04/1891

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Birth

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Death

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Burial Register

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Stillborn children were not recorded in the burial register, only in the cemetery accounts.

Memorial Details

	From top of monument: In Memory of: Sarah, wife of William Thomas/ Lawrence/ who died Dec./ 28th. 1856/ aged 55 years. Also of William Thomas Lawrence/ who died Sept. 13rd. 1870/ aged 65 years./ Also Matilda/ widow of the above/ who died April 3rd. 1891 aged 72 years./ "She hath done what she could"

Name on Memorial	Matilda Lawrence
Date of death	03/04/1891
Age	72
Gender	Female

Memorial Type	Headstone and footstone
Construction Material	Limestone
Condition of memorial	Engraved letters; good
Pattison Location Code	LS(H)33
Others named on memorial
Sarah Lawrence
William Thomas Lawrence

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	Matilda Lawrence
Date of burial	08/04/1891
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Unconsecrated Private Grave
By whom buried	Reverend G J Knight
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 057
Transcription comments	On FBMD

Accounts Entry for Matilda Lawrence
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Biographical Information

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Matilda Lawrence

Matilda Lawrence

She was born c. 1819 in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. She was the second wife of William Thomas Lawrence.

In 1861 she is living at 5 Montague Place, Newbury, with her husband and his daughter Emily (b. 1840) and his grandson William Thomas Lawrence, aged 8. By 1871 she is a widow and annuitant and living at 9 Carnarvon Terrace, Newbury, and William Thomas Lawrence, now aged 18, is lodging there. She is at the same address in 1881.

She died on 3 April 1891 at 63 Northbrook Street, Newbury, aged 72 years. Probate was granted to William Thomas Lawrence, Solicitor of Millom, Cumberland. Her name is inscribed on the grave together with that of her husband and his first wife Sarah.

Sources: Census 1861/1871/1881; BMD 2Q 1891 Death; National Probate/Will Index. Also refer to entry for William Thomas Lawrence (1807-1870).

Mrs. P. Code LS (H) 33, page 150

Author: FNRC
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