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Personal Details of Mary A Higgs

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Buried:	10/06/1898

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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: In Loving Memory of / Mary Titcombe / wife of Thomas Farr Higgs / and eldest daughter of / John & Caroline Pullen / who died June 7th. 1898 / aged 47 years. / "God knows best." / Also of Thomas Farr Higgs, / who died July 7th. 1919; / aged 70 years. // Footstone:M.T.H. / 1898 / T.F.H. / 1919 //

Name on Memorial	Mary Titcombe HIGGS
Date of death	07/06/1898
Age	47
Gender	Female

Memorial Type	Headstone; Footstone.
Construction Material	Sandstone Engraved
Condition of memorial	Good. Footstone leaning against headstone.
Pattison Location Code	P(B)6
Recorder's Notes	NB 1: Thomas Farr & other members of the family are "Westies" related to John & Frances West & Gabriel Cox, Mayor of Newbury who entertained Chas I during the Civil War. NB 2: Mary T is registered mistakenly as Mary A Higgs in the NCR Burial Records Mary was the daughter of an agricultural labourer who moved from Lambourn to 6, Trafalgar Place, off Bartholomew St, Newbury to work as an Iron Founder. Thomas was the son of Stationer Thomas and wife Mary at 65 Northbrook St before moving to Cheap St. Thomas Jnr & Mary T married in 1877 in Southampton. They lived at 30, Westfields in 1881, Thomas being recorded as an assistant confectioner. In1891 he was a general storekeeper living in Bartholomew St, moving by1891 to 24, Craven St (later Road). working as a Warehouseman. They had 5 children, several of whom emigrated to USA. Shortly after Mary's death, Thomas married her younger sister, dressmaker Sarah Pullen .They continued living in Craven St until by 1911 they lived in Bridge St, Hungerford where Thomas, an assistant grocer, died. Sarah also died at Church St, & is buried in plot P(A)13 with her brother Rev William Titcombe Pullen, Wesleyan Minister. Mary, William & Sarah's parents, John & Caroline Pullen are buried near Mary & Thomas in P(C)2. Thomas's parents and family members are buried in P(A)12 while his brother, Walter is buried with his two wives and children in plot P(A)9. Sources: NRC Bur Rcds; Ancestry records.

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 A Higgs (FBMD shows forename as Mary Titcombe)
Date of burial	10/06/1898
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Unconsecrated Private Grave
By whom buried	Reverend G Bolderston
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 101
Transcription comments	On FBMD

Accounts Entry for Mary A Higgs
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

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