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Buried:	08/11/1898

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Burial Register

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Memorial Details

	From top of headstone: In Affectionate Remembrance of/ Benjamin Chamberlain/ (of Wash Road, Newbury)/ who died suddenly Nov. 5th. 1889/ aged 62 years. " So teach us to number our days/ that we may apply our hearts/ unto wisdom."/ Also of Ann Dodd/ widow of the above/ who died Nov. 5th. 1898/ aged 70 years./ "These are they which come out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb." South kerbstone: "Watch therefore for ye know neither the day" North kerbstone: "nor the hour wherein the Son of Man cometh."

Name on Memorial	Ann Dodd
Date of death	05/11/1898
Age	70
Gender	Female

Memorial Type	Headstone and kerbstones
Construction Material	Limestone with inlaid letters
Condition of memorial	Poor, Headstone broken off from base
Pattison Location Code	W124
Others named on memorial
Benjamin CHAMBERLAIN

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	Ann Dodd
Date of burial	08/11/1898
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated Vault
By whom buried	Reverend R Dunn
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 104
Transcription comments	On FBMD

Accounts Entry for Ann Dodd
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

DEATHS Ann Dodd

Source:	NWN
Article date:	10/11/1898
Copyright:
Transciption:	Newbury Weekly News Dated 10^th November 1898 DODD – Nov. 5, at Bedford Cottage, Wash-road, Newbury, Ann, wife of George Dodd and widow of the late Benjamin Chamberlain, aged 70.
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

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Ann Dodd c1828-1898

Ann Dodd

c1828-1898

Ann was baptised on the 28^th December 1828 at St Denys, Stanford in the Vale, Berkshire, the daughter of Thomas and Rachel Whitehorn (nee Belcher) who were married on the 27^th November 1826 in West Hanney, Berkshire.

Her father Thomas was a Thatcher, he was born c1805 in Stanford in the Vale Berkshire. He died aged 86 in 1886 and was buried on the 12^th November at St Denys Stanford in the Vale.

Her mother Rachel was baptised in 1802 in West Hanney, Berkshire, the daughter of James and Elizabeth Belcher she died aged 46 in 1849, she was buried on the 10^th March at St Denys Stanford in the Vale.

In 1841 Ann (12) was recorded living in Stanford, Berkshire with her parents Thomas (34), Rachel (37) and her siblings, George (15), Henry (10), Elizabeth (8), Daniel (5), James (3) and Charles (1).

The 1851 census records her aged 22, living in Bagnor, Berkshire with her Aunt and Uncle Moses (45) and Martha Belcher (43). She married later that year.

Marriage details:
Place; Speen, Berkshire

Date: 28^th April 1851

Groom: Benjamin Chamberlain, full age, bachelor, occupation, Dealer, abode, Theale

Bride: Ann Whitehorn (e), full age, spinster, abode, Speen

Fathers: John Chamberlain, a Farmer and Thomas Whitehorn, a Thatcher.

Witnesses: William Pocock and Catherine Pocock.

Benjamin and Ann had two sons, John born 1852 and Charles born in 1855. Both boys died in 1856. John died aged 4, of Scarlatina Maligna (Scarlet Fever) on the 24^th September at the Bell, Wash Common Gate, Newbury, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 26^th September. Charles died aged 1, he was laid to rest with John the following day.

The 1861 census records Benjamin (33) as a Cattle Dealer, living in Wash Road, Newbury with Ann (32) and a servant, Charles Fowler (15).

In 1871 Benjamin (43) was recorded as a Cattle Dealer/Farmer of 50 acres living in Wash Common, Newbury with Ann (42). Also recorded living with them were a niece, Esther Belcher (9) and a nephew, Moses Belcher (2).

The 1881 census records Benjamin (53) as a Farmer of 4 acres employing 3 labourers. He was living in Wash Road, Newbury with Ann (52) and a John Chamberlain (12) recorded as their son. (No birth found for a son John Chamberlain. In 1891 this John was recorded as a nephew)

Benjamin died aged 62 on the 5^th November 1889, he was buried in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 8^th November. (Funeral service held at St John the Evangelist Newbury)

The 1891 census records Ann (62) living on his Own Means at Bedford Cottage, Wash Common, Newbury also recorded in the household was her nephew John Chamberlain (22) a Farmer and Dealer and a visitor Ellen Whiteing (64).

Ann remarried in 1895.

Marriage details:

Place: St John’s Church Newbury

Date: 18^th May 1895

Groom: George Dodd, full age, widower, occupation, Farmer, abode, Holt Manor Farm, Kintbury

Bride: Ann Chamberlain, full age, widow, abode, Bedford Cottage, Wash Road, Newbury.

Fathers: Thomas Whitehorn, deceased and William Dodd, deceased

Witnesses: John Chamberlain and Florence Chamberlain

Ann died aged 70 on the 5^th November 1898, she was laid to rest with Benjamin in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 8^th November. (Funeral service held at St John the Evangelist, Newbury)

Probate: DODD Ann of Bedford Cottage Wash-road Newbury Berkshire (wife of George Dodd) died 5^th November 1898 Probate Oxford 24^th January 1899 to John Chamberlain farmer and cattle-dealer and William Hailstone boot and shoe-factor Effects: £6549 6s 7d

George retired to Woolton Hill Hampshire, He died aged 76 on the 11^th October 1900 in Hampshire, his body was brought back to Berkshire and he was buried on the 15^th October 1900 at St Mary Kintbury.

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