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Personal Details of Mary Ann Griffiths

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Buried:	11/02/1896

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Birth

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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	Mary Ann Griffiths
Date of burial	11/02/1896
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Unconsecrated Common Internment
By whom buried	Reverend D Harding
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 088
Transcription comments	On FBMD

Accounts Entry for Mary Ann Griffiths
© 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:	Mary Ann Griffiths
Date of death:	08 February 1896
Age at death:	68
Parish from which they were admitted to the workhouse:	Newbury
Where buried:	Newbury Cemetery
Workhouse Master:	William Hawkes
Comments:	(by relations)

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

DEATHS Mary Ann Griffiths

Source:	Newbury Weekly News
Article date:	13/02/1896
Copyright:
Transciption:	Newbury Weekly News Dated 13^th February 1896 GRIFFITHS, - Feb. 8, at the Union Workhouse, Newbury, Mary Ann, widow of William Griffiths, aged 68 years
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Mary Ann Griffiths.

Mary Ann Griffiths c1828-1896

Mary Ann Griffiths

c1828-1896

Mary Ann, her parents, siblings and early life:

Mary Ann was born in Newbury Berkshire she was baptised 6^th April 1828 at St Nicolas Church Newbury the daughter of William and Mary Ann Lipscomb(e) (nee Crumpton) who were married on the 18^th July 1807 in Henley on Thames.

Mary Ann’s father was a Chair Maker, born c1788 in West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Her mother was born c1784 in Henley on Thames.

Other known children of William and Mary were:

Rebecca baptised 10^thJuly 1808 Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire

John baptised 25^th December 1814 St Mary Marlborough

Elizabeth baptised 14^th June 1815 St Mary the Virgin Marlborough (father recorded as a Chair Maker)

In 1841 Mary Ann Lipscomb (14) (recorded on ancestry as Mariann) was living with her parents William (55) and Mary (55) in Bartholomew Street, Newbury

The 1851 census records Mary Ann’s parents William and Mary Ann (both aged 64) living at White Hall Yard, Newbury also recorded in the household were their grandchildren William Lipscombe (6) and Rebecca Lipscombe (8). Mary Ann (23) was working as a House Maid for the Rector of Enborne, Charles A Johnson (30) at Enborne Rectory.

Mary’s mother Mary (76) was recorded in the 1861 census as a widow living in St Mary’s Almshouses, Cheap Street, Newbury, her granddaughter Elizabeth Green (11) was recorded living with her.

Mary’s mother died aged 78 in 1862, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 5^th December.

Mary Ann:

Mary Ann married William Griffiths in 1858. (William was a widower, 1^st wife Mary Powers, married 17/10/1824, twelve children, widowed in 1856, Mary buried in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 2^nd January 1857)

William and Mary Ann had the following three children:

Frederick William c1859, Ann Matilda c1861 and Edwin 1862

In 1861 Mary Ann (35) was living in the Old Cattle Market, Newbury with William (56), a Master Coach Smith, her stepsons, Caleb (19), Paul (17), Samuel (10), her son Frederick William (2) and her daughter Ann Matilda aged 3 months.

William (68), Mary Ann (44), Frederick William (12), Ann Matilda (10) and Edwin (8) were still living in the Old Cattle Market in 1871. William died aged 68 later that year. He was laid to rest (as William Edward Griffiths) in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 25^th November.

In 1881 Mary Ann (50) and her son Edwin (19) were living at 12 Union Court, Newbury. Mary was working as a School Mistress.

The 1891 census records Mary Ann (64) living at 6 Barlow’s Building, Greenham with her married son Edwin (28) and daughter-in-law Louisa (26) (surname recorded as Griffiens on ancestry).

Mary Ann died aged 68 on the 8^th February 1896, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 11^th February.

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