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Personal Details of Fanny Louisa Wood

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Buried:	25/09/1896

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Burial Register

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Memorial Details

	Kerbstones - west side: John Freeman died Oct 2nd 1879 aged 27 years / North side: Charlotte Bryant died 26th April 1886 aged 36 yrs./ North side:Samuel Henry Freeman died 24th Dec 1920 ged 76 yrs./ East side: Fanny Louise Wood died Sept 19th 1896 aged 17 yrs./ South side: Samuel Freeman died May 7th 1906 aged 89./South side: Emma Freeman died March 12th 1917 aged 94./East side: Mary Ann Freeman born Dec 11th 1847 died March 29th 1928./ / South side: Caroline Offer died May 17th 1929 aged 69 years

Name on Memorial	Louise Fanny WOOD
Date of death	19/09/1896
Age	17
Gender	Female

Memorial Type	Kerbstones double size
Construction Material	Sandstone
Condition of memorial	Fair
Pattison Location Code	NE39(A)
Others named on memorial
John FREEMAN
Charlotte BRYANT
Samuel Henry FREEMAN
Samuel FREEMAN
Emma FREEMAN
Mary Ann FREEMAN
Caroline OFFER

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	Fanny Louisa Wood
Date of burial	25/09/1896
Whence brought	Hampstead Norrys
Where & how buried	C
By whom buried	Reverend E J Watts
Account remarks	Interred in W L Freeman Vault
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 091
Transcription comments	Not on Free BMD

Accounts Entry for Fanny Louisa Wood
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

Death - Fanny Louisa Wood

Source:	NWN
Article date:	24/09/1896
Copyright:
Transciption:	Newbury Weekly News Dated 24^th September 1896 WOOD – Sept. 19, at Hampstead Norris, Fannie Louisa, daughter of the late E. Wood of Cirencester, and dearly loved step-daughter of Frederick W. Newton of Hampstead Norris, aged 17 years.
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

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Fanny Louisa Wood 1879-1896

Fanny Louisa Wood

1879-1896

Fanny Louisa was born in Sussex, she was baptised on the 24^th August 1879 at St Leonard’s Christ Church, East Sussex, the daughter of Ernest and Louisa Wood (nee Freeman) who were married on the 15^th January 1879 at St Nicolas Church Newbury, Berkshire.

Fanny’s father Ernest was an Ironmonger. He was born in 1856 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire the son of Alfred and Charlotte Wood (nee Harris) who were married on the 14^th July 1853 at St Mary De Lode Gloucester.

Her mother Louisa was born in 1855 in Newbury, Berkshire, the daughter of Samuel and Emma Freeman (nee Sharp) who were married on the 3^rd October 1843 in Wolverton, Hampshire.

Ernest and Louisa also had the following children:

Alfred John Ernest born 1880

Samuel Frank born 1882, baptised 15^th October 1882 at Christ Church Worthing.

The 1881 census records Fanny (1) living with her father Ernest (34), a Manager of an Ironmonger’s Shop, her mother Louisa (25), her brother Alfred (5 months) and female servant aged 13, at 7 Graham Street, Broadwater, Sussex.

The 1891 census records Fanny (11) living at 17 Craven Street, Newbury, Berkshire with her widowed mother Louisa (34), her brothers Alfred (10) and Samuel (8), her grandparents (recorded as lodgers) Samuel Freeman (73) and Emma Freeman (67), her uncle Charles Freeman (23) and her great aunt Charlotte Sharp (69)

(Fanny’s mother Louisa remarried in 1894, her 2^nd husband was Frederick William Newton (an Accountant, born in 1850 in Oxfordshire). They had a daughter Gladys Lilian, born in 1897. Louisa was widowed in 1918. She died aged 95 in 1950 in Surrey)

Fanny Louisa died aged 17 on the 19^th September 1896 in Hampstead Norris, she was laid to rest in a family grave in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 25^th September.

Also buried in the family grave were her grandparents Samuel Freeman (buried 1906) and Emma Freeman (buried 1917), her uncles, John Freeman (buried (1879), Samuel Henry Freeman (buried 1920), her aunts Mary Anna Freeman (wife of Samuel Henry, buried 1928), Charlotte Bryant (buried 1886) and Caroline Offer (buried 1929)

Mrs P Page 56 NE 39(A)

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