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Personal Details of George Owen

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Born:
Died:	22/02/1886
Buried:	25/02/1886

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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	George Owen
Date of burial	22/02/1886
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated Common Interment
By whom buried	Rev'd. W. Pheasant
Account remarks	He is OWEN in freeBMD
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 023
Transcription comments	Burial date estimated from death date

Accounts Entry for George Owen
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Workhouse Records

This information was taken from the Newbury Workhouse records currently held at the Berkshire Record Office.

Name:	George Owens
Date of death:	17 February 1886
Age at death:	70
Parish from which they were admitted to the workhouse:	Chieveley
Where buried:	Newbury Cemetery
Workhouse Master:	William Hawkes
Comments:

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

Deaths - George Owen

Source:	NWN
Article date:	25/02/1886
Copyright:
Transciption:	Newbury Weekly News Dated 25^th February 1886 OWEN – Feb. 17, at the Workhouse, Newbury, George Owen, late of Chieveley, aged 70.
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about George Owen.

George Owen c1816-1886

George Owen

c1816-1886

George was an Agricultural Labourer. He was baptised on the 13^th January 1821/1822 in Thatcham, Berkshire, the son of James and Mary Owen (nee Vince) who were married in 1809 in Bucklebury, Berkshire.

George married Hannah Flitter (surname spelt Frater) on the 30^th September 1854 in Thatcham, Berkshire.

(Hannah was baptised on the 14th July 1833 in Thatcham, the daughter of William and Eliza Fritter (nee Bridgman) who were married on the 14^th July 1827 at St Mary’s Church Thatcham).

George and Hannah had the following children:

Sarah Ann 1855

Alice 1857

Thomas 1859

Emily 1861

George 1863

Job 1865

Henry 1868

Mary Ann 1870

Rose Hannah 1874

In 1861 the family were living in Oare Street, Chieveley, Berkshire.

The 1871 census records the family living in Oare village, Chieveley.

By 1881 they were living in “Old Crown Cottages”, Oxford Road, Chieveley.

George died aged 70 in the Newbury Workhouse, on the 17^th February 1886, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 22^nd February.

Hannah (56) was recorded in the 1891 census as an Agricultural Labourer, living in Horsemoor, Chieveley, with her sons George (26), Henry (22) and her daughter Rose (17).

She died aged 59 in 1891 and was buried on the 6^th September at St Mary the Virgin Chieveley.

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