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Personal Details of John Stephens

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Buried:	20/04/1895

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

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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.

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	John Stephens
Date of burial	20/04/1895
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Conscrated Common Internment
By whom buried	Reverend W M Hope
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 083
Transcription comments	On FBMD

Accounts Entry for John Stephens
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Workhouse Records

This information was taken from the Newbury Workhouse records currently held at the Berkshire Record Office.

Name:	John Stephens
Date of death:	18 April 1895
Age at death:	82
Parish from which they were admitted to the workhouse:	Newbury
Where buried:	Newbury Cemetery
Workhouse Master:	William Hawkes
Comments:

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about John Stephens.

John Stephens (1813 – 1895)

John Stephens (1813 – 1895)

John Stephens was born in Portsea. According to the ages recorded in the 1861 to 1891 censuses John was born between 1805 and 1813, his age at death implied he was born in 1812 or 1813. There were three John Stephens/Stevens baptized around 1814 in Portsea and the most likely one was baptized 5 July 1811 at Portsea, son of James and Fanny.

No trace of John in the 1841 and 1851 censuses. In the 1861 census John was recorded as a lodger living in The City in Newbury, aged 48, a hawker, unmarried and born in Portsmouth. Ten years later in the 1871 census he was recorded in a lodging house in The City, aged 60, unmarried and born in Portsea and still a hawker.

In the 1881 census John was recorded as a lodger living with Michael and Mary Ann Willis in The City in Newbury. He was recorded as aged 76, a hawker, unmarried and born in Portsmouth. Michael Willis was also a hawker.

Ten years later in the 1891 census John was recorded as an inmate in the Newbury Union Workhouse aged 77, single, born in Landport in Hampshire and a hawker of hardware.

John died 18 April 1895 in the Workhouse and he was buried at Newtown Road Cemetery on 20 April 1895.

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