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Personal Details of Sarah Purdue

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Buried:	19/01/1892

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Burial Register

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Cemetery accounts

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Name at death	Sarah Purdue
Date of burial	19/01/1892
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated Common Interment
By whom buried	Rev'd. W. Pheasant
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 0621

Accounts Entry for Sarah Purdue
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Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

Deaths - Sarah Purdue

Source:	NWN
Article date:	21/01/1892
Copyright:
Transciption:	Newbury Weekly News Dated 21^st January 1892 PURDUE- January 15, at Bartholomew Almshouses, Newbury, Sarah Purdue, aged 86 years.
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

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Sarah Purdue

1805-1892

Sarah, her parents, siblings and early life:

Sarah Finch was born on the 3^rd November 1805 in Newbury, Berkshire, she was baptised on the 2^nd December 1805 at the Lower Meeting House Independent, Newbury, the daughter of Charles and Sarah Matilda Finch.

Charles and Sarah also had the following children:
Robert, born 11^th June 1807, baptised 27^th July 1807

Frederick, born 28^th July 1808, baptised 4^th October 1808

Catherine Tuckwell, born 31^st January 1810, baptised 3^rd April 1810

Robert Tuckwell, born 2^nd July 1811, baptised 22^nd August 1811

Elishua Mary, born 29^th December 1812

Matilda, born 1^st August 1817, baptised 10^th November 1817

In 1815 Sarah (9) was living in Brunston’s Yard, on the west side of Market Street, Newbury, with her father Charles (36), a Cabinet Maker, her mother Sarah (40), her brothers, Frederick (6), Robert (4), her sister Elishua (2), Sarah King (60) and Joseph Hambrough Tuckwell (50)

Sarah in later life:

In 1832 Sarah had an illegitimate daughter, Emma, born in Smith’s Crescent, Speen, on the 4^th February 1832, who was baptised (Baptist) on the 13^th December 1832. (Father, John Alsop).

The 1851 census records Sarah (45) working as a Housemaid for a Sarah Townsend (71) a Clergyman’s widow, in Bartholomew, Newbury, Berkshire.

Sarah married in 1851

Marriage details:
Place: St Nicolas Church Newbury

Date: 25^th November 1851

Groom: Charles Purdue, widower, Carpenter, abode, Newbury

Bride: Sarah Finch, spinster, full age, Servant, abode, Newbury

Fathers: James Purdue, a Shoemaker and Charles Finch, a Cabinet Maker

Witnesses: George Finch and Ann Nias Toms

In 1861 Sarah (55) was recorded living with her husband Charles (61), a Publican, at the Two Brewers, West Mills, Newbury.

She was widowed in 1867, Charles died aged 67 on the 29^th January, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 2^nd February.

The 1871 census records Sarah (65) working as a Housekeeper, for a James Hiscock, a Corn Merchant and his wife Lucy, in Speenhamland, Berkshire. (Surname recorded as Pindar on ancestry)

In 1881 Sarah (75) was living in St Bartholomew’s Almshouses, Newbury.

The 1891 census records her aged 85, living in King John’s Almshouses Argyle Road, Newbury, with a servant, Kate Few aged 15. (Surnames recorded as Purdin and Fred on ancestry)

Sarah died aged 86 on the 15^th January 1892. She was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 19^th January.

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