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Personal Details of Unnamed Culley

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Buried:	15/09/1869

Listed below are all the details we have been able to find so far on Unnamed Culley.

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Birth

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Death

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Burial Register

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Only three of the five burial register books still exist as far as we know and these are held at the Berkshire Record Office.
Stillborn children were not recorded in the burial register, only in the cemetery accounts.

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	Unnamed Culley (A new born male child of Lucy Culley)
Date of burial	15/09/1869
Whence brought
Where & how buried
By whom buried
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 103

Accounts Entry for Unnamed Culley
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

Lucy Culley

Source:	Reproduced from “Newbury 365” by Dr. Nick Young and is included with his kind consent.
Article date:
Copyright:	Dr. Nick Young
Transciption:	12 September 1869: On this day Lucy Culley murdered her newborn illegitimate son. Lucy was a cook in the service of Dr John Alexander of Marsh House, who was coroner for the area although he had been unable to fulfil this role on health grounds. Lucy was taken ill in the morning, and retired to her bedroom. Another servant went to check on her in the afternoon where (she) found the bedroom in disorder and a large amount of blood covering the floor. Dr Finch, who also resided at the house, felt that a child had gone full term and had been born. The body of a newborn baby was discovered in a bag in the bedroom with a four inch wound on his neck. The wound, caused by a knife, had severed a vein and also damaged the spinal column. The knife was not found for several days. An inquest held later charged Lucy with wilful murder but since the child could not be shown to have had a separate and independent life, she was acquitted. Instead she was convicted of concealing the birth and was sentenced to two months imprisonment. Western Daily Press
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

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