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Personal Details of Henry Arnold

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Buried:	26/03/1892

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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

	Headstone: ILMO/ HENRY ARNOLD/ who departed this life/ March 22nd. 1892/ aged 56 years./ "How the labourer's task is o'er now that the battle day is passed./ Now upon the further shore/ lands the voyager at last."/ "Father in thy gracious keeping./ Leave we now thy servant sleeping."/ Also of JANE/ wife of the above/ who departed this life may 31st. 19O7/ aged 75 years./ "I hear a voice from Heaven saying unto us 'Wright, blessed are the dead which die in the Lord." Footstone: H A 1892 / J A 1907

Name on Memorial	Henry Arnold
Date of death	22/03/1892
Age	56
Gender	Male

Memorial Type	Headstone and footstone
Construction Material	Sandstone, engraved
Condition of memorial	Good although footstone is propped against the headstone
Pattison Location Code	P(F)8
Others named on memorial
Jane Arnold

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	Henry Arnold
Date of burial	26/03/1892
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Unconsecrated Common Internment
By whom buried	Reverend H Burson
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 065
Transcription comments	On FBMD

Accounts Entry for Henry Arnold
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

deaths - Henry Arnold

Source:	nwn
Article date:	24/03/1892
Copyright:
Transciption:	Newbury Weekly News Dated 24^th March 1892 ARNOLD – Mar. 23, at the Newbury District Hospital, Henry Arnold, of Old Newtown Road, Newbury, aged 56 years.
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Henry Arnold.

Henry Arnold c1837-1892

Henry Arnold

c1837-1892

Henry, his parents, siblings and early life:

Henry was baptised on the 5^th March 1837, in Thatcham, Berkshire, the son of Henry and Maria Arnold (nee Blake) who were married on the 18^th April 1830, in Thatcham.

Henry’s father Henry was an Agricultural/Farm Labourer. Henry was born on the 8^th November 1804, in Thatcham, Berkshire. He was baptised on the 16^th December 1804, the son of George and Maria Arnold (nee Rhodes) who were married on the 8^th September 1801, in Thatcham. Henry died aged 69, in 1873, he was buried on 29^th January, at St Mary, Thatcham.

According to census records Henry’s mother Maria Blake was born c1806-c1811, in Thatcham, Berkshire. Maria died aged 72 in 1881, she was buried on the 17^th February, at St Mary, Thatcham.

Henry and Maria also had the following children baptised in Thatcham:

Frederick Blake, 26^th December 1830 (illegitimate son of Maria, known as Frederick Arnold)

Mary Ann, 5^th January 1832

George, 20^th February 1834

Richard, 9^th March 1836

Maria, 23^rd June 1839

Eliza, 17^th April 1842

Sarah, 22^nd June 1845

Lucy Martha, 5^th August 1849 (born Lucy in 1847)

Emily, born 1850 (no baptism found yet!)

The 1851 census records Henry (47), Maria (45) and their children, Frederick (21), Mary A. (19), Richard (16), Henry (14), Maria (12), (recorded as Anarea) Eliza (12), (recorded as Elizabeth) Sarah (5), Lucy (3) and Emily (8 months), living in Broad Street, Thatcham.

Henry in later life:

Henry married Jane Hunt on the 26^th October 1861, in Thatcham.

(Jane Hunt was baptised on the 16^th December 1832, in Thatcham, the daughter of Isaac and Maria Hunt (nee Cook) who were married on the 6^th March 1831, in Thatcham).

Henry and Jane had the following children:

Ann, c1862

Maria, c1864

John, 1866

Sarah Jane, 1872

Emily Alice, 1875

The 1871 census records Henry (34), an Agricultural Labourer, Jane (38) and their children, Ann (9), Maria (7), and John (5), living at 49 Chapel Street, Thatcham.

In 1881 Henry (45) was working as a Railway Navvy, living in Chapel Street, Thatcham, with Jane (48) and their children, Ann (19) a Rag Sorter (Paper Mill), John (15) a Farm Carter, Sarah (9) and Emily (6).

By 1891 Henry (55), Jane (59), their daughters, Sarah (18), a Laundress and Emily (16), a Laundress and their granddaughter, Elizabeth Nailor (5), were living at 4, The Nurseries, Old Newtown Road, Newbury.

Henry died aged 56, on the 22^nd March 1892. He was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 26^th March.

The 1901 census records Jane (69), living in Old Newtown Road, Newbury. Her married daughter Sarah Piper (28), her son-in-law John Piper (32), a Domestic Coachman, and her grandchildren, Emily Piper (7), Frank Piper (5), Jane Naylor (19), a Laundress and Elizabeth Naylor (15), a General Domestic Servant, were living with her.

Jane died aged 74, on the 31^st May 1907, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery, with Henry on the 4^th June.

Newbury Weekly News

Dated 24^th March 1892

ARNOLD – Mar. 23, at the Newbury District Hospital, Henry Arnold, of Old Newtown Road, Newbury, aged 56 years.

Mrs P’s Page 173 Code P(F) 8

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