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Buried:	26/07/1899

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Cemetery accounts

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Name at death	Michael Stratton
Date of burial	26/07/1899
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Conscrated Common Internment
By whom buried	Reverend J A Thomas
Account remarks	The death of Michael Stratton is also recorded in the Newbury Union workhouse death records 23rd July 1899, aged 74, from Hampstead Marshall, Buried Newbury Cemetery
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 107
Transcription comments	On FBMD

Accounts Entry for Michael Stratton
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Biographical Information

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Michael Stratton c1821-1899

Michael Stratton

c1821-1899

Michael was baptised in 1821, in Inkpen, Berkshire, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Stratton (nee Elaway /Allaway) who were married on the 9^th October 1817, at St Michael and All Angels, Inkpen.

Michael’s father Thomas was baptised on the 12^th May 1799, at St Michael, Inkpen, the son of John and Phoebe Stratton (spelt Febe on baptism record) (nee Bennett) who were married on the 12^th October 1797, in Shalbourne, Wiltshire.

His mother Elizabeth was baptised on the 16^th March 1788, in Chilton Foliat, Wiltshire, the daughter of John and Elizabeth Elloway.

Thomas and Elizabeth also had the following children:

Rachel, baptised in 1817, in Inkpen

Ann, baptised 21^st November 1819, in Inkpen (dad a Labourer)

Hannah, 17^th August 1823 in Inkpen (dad a Labourer and Shopkeeper)

The 1841 census records Michael (15) living in Inkpen, with his father Thomas (40), his mother Elizabeth (50), his grandmother Phoebe (65), his niece Rachel (5) (the illegitimate daughter of his sister Rachel) and Joseph Allaway (70)

Michael Stratten married in 1849

Marriage details:

Place: Hamstead Marshall, Berkshire

Date: 17^th March 1849

Groom: Michael Stratten, full age, bachelor, occupation, Labourer

Bride: Charlotte Frude, full age, spinster

Fathers: Richard Frude and Thomas Stratten, both Labourers

Witnesses: John Meath and Elizabeth Stratten

(Charlotte was baptised in 1813, in Bradfield, Berkshire, the daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Froud (nee Gray) who were married in 1807, in Bradfield).

Michael and Charlotte had a son, George born in 1849

The 1851 census records Michael Stratten (29), an Agricultural Labourer, living in Hamstead Marshall, Berkshire, with Charlotte (27), George (2) and his niece, Jane Stratton (10) (baptised Frances Jane Clark Stratton, the illegitimate daughter of his sister Hannah).

The 1871, 1881 and 1891 census records record Michael, Charlotte and George, living in Hamstead Marshall. Michael and George were both working as Labourers.

Michael was widowed in 1894, Charlotte Stratton died aged 83. (Death registered in the March quarter 1894, in Newbury).

Michael died in the Newbury Workhouse on the 23^rd July 1899. (Age at death registered as 75) He was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 26^th July.

Their son George never married. In 1901 he was still living in Hamstead Marshall, working as a General Labourer.

By 1911 George (61) was an inmate in the Newbury Workhouse. He was recorded as formerly a Cattle Man on a Farm. He was still living in the Newbury Workhouse when the 1921 census was taken, which recorded him aged 72 and no longer working.

George died aged 76, in 1926 (death registered in the September quarter in Newbury)

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