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Personal Details of Edith Ellen Knight

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Buried:	31/07/1891

Listed below are all the details we have been able to find so far on Edith Ellen Knight.

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Birth

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Death

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Burial Register

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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.

Memorial Details

	Headstone: In Loving Memory of / Edith Ellen / daughter of / William Knight / who died July 26th. 1891 / aged 21 years. / "Our life is but a fading dawn / its nooon how quickly past. / Lead us, O Christ, when all is gone / Safe Home at last. / Also of / William Knight / who died Feb. 24 th.1919 / aged 79 years. / "Blessed are the dead." / Also of / Ellen Knight / who died Aug. 17th. 1935 / aged 84 years. // Footstone: E.E.K. / 1891 / W.K. / 1919 / E.K. 1935 //

Name on Memorial	Edith Ellen KNIGHT
Date of death	26/07/1891
Age	21
Gender	Female

Memorial Type	Headstone; footstone.
Construction Material	Sandstone. Engraved
Condition of memorial	Solid & upright but face weathered & engraving difficult to read.Footstone upright.
Pattison Location Code	ChNWW5
Recorder's Notes	Edith is the daughter of William Knight & his first wife, Ellen nee Still, buried in ChNWW7 below. She had two step-mothers, Ellen's sister, Edith's Aunt Jane and another Ellen both buried with her brother Frank in ChNWW7. William, born in Newbury, was a Miller of Cheap St & Bartholomew St. He had Edith, Frank & Henry with the first Ellen & a son, James, much later with second wife Ellen. He & Ellen II finally lived in the Kimber Almshouses, Newbury. At one time, William lived next door in Cheap St to another William Knight, a baker. Source: ancestry.co.uk
Others named on memorial
William KNIGHT
Ellen KNIGHT

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	Edith Ellen Knight
Date of burial	31/07/1891
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated Private Grave
By whom buried	Reverend W Pheasent
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 060
Transcription comments	On FBMD

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

Biographical Information

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