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Personal Details of Martha Bowles

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Buried:	02/02/1893

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Birth

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Burial Register

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Stillborn children were not recorded in the burial register, only in the cemetery accounts.

Memorial Details

	IHS / ILMO / GEORGE BRYANT / who departed this life Oct. 8th 1890 / aged 45 years. / (( )) Also SARAH BRYANT wife of the above / died Jan 5th 1921 aged 77 years. / Also MARTHA BOWLES / who died Jan. 29th 1893 / aged 73 years

Name on Memorial	Martha Bowles
Date of death	29/01/1893
Age	73
Gender	Female

Memorial Type	Headstone and kerbstones
Construction Material	Sandstone
Condition of memorial	Poor unreadable
Pattison Location Code	LN(K) 5
Others named on memorial
George Bryant
Sarah Bryant

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	Martha Bowles
Date of burial	02/02/1893
Whence brought
Where & how buried
By whom buried
Account Entry	Book 06 - Page 01

Accounts Entry for Martha Bowles
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

DEATHS Martha Bowles

Source:	NWN
Article date:	02/02/1893
Copyright:
Transciption:	Newbury Weekly News Dated 2^nd February 1893 BOWLES – Jan, 29, at St John’s View Howard-place, Bartholomew-street, Newbury, Martha Bowles, aged 73
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Martha Bowles.

Martha Bowles c1819-1893

Martha Bowles

c1819-1893

Martha and her twin sister Mary were born in Newbury they were baptised on the 29^th December 1819 at St Nicolas Church Newbury the daughters of William and Elizabeth Appleton (nee Lambdin/Lambden) who married on the 19^th September 1814 at St Nicolas Church Newbury. Martha’s twin sister died aged 2+ in 1822 she was buried on the 26^th August at St Nicolas Newbury.

Martha’s father was born c1790 in either Newbury Berkshire or Woodhay Hampshire and was a Sawyer. Her mother was born c1787 in Newbury.

Other known children of William and Elizabeth were: Thomas c1815, William c1817, Charles c1823 and Elizabeth c1838

The 1815 census of Newbury records Martha’s parents William (25) and Elizabeth (27) and her brother Thomas (an infant), living in Be Yard (east side of Bartholomew Street) Newbury with a Thomas Appleton (70) (possibly Martha’s grandfather), William Lambdin (31), a Tailor, Thomas Lambdin (26) and Sarah Arrowsmith (50).

In 1841 Martha (20) was living with her parents and her siblings, William, Charles, and Elizabeth in the City Newbury.

Martha gave birth to a daughter c1843 she was baptised as Sarah on the 23^rd June 1843 at St Nicolas Church Newbury (Sarah married George Bryant in 1880 and died in 1921)

The 1851 census records Martha (32) and Sarah (8) living with Martha’s parents William (63) and Elizabeth (63) and siblings William (34), Charles (25) and Elizabeth (13) and William’s two daughters Matilda (7) and Elizabeth (5) in Bartholomew Street Newbury.

In 1861 Martha was visiting a William and Mary Gentry in Ponsonby Terrace, Middlesex, her daughter Sarah (17) was recorded living with her Appleton grandparents in the City Newbury.

Martha married John Bowles in Newbury in 1863. (John was a widower with three children, Jane born 1849, Charlotte born 1851 and Henry born 1852)

Marriage details:

Place: St Nicolas Church Newbury

Date: 26^th September 1863

Groom: John Bowles, full age, widower, occupation: Labourer abode: Newbury

Bride: Martha Appleton, full age, spinster, abode: Newbury

Fathers: Richard Bowles, occupation: Corn Porter and William Appleton, occupation: Sawyer

Witnesses: George Povey and Sarah Appleton

Bride and Groom made their mark

The 1871 census records John (53) as a General Labourer and Martha (51) as a Charwoman living in St John’s View, Newbury. They continued to live in St John’s View until their deaths.

Martha died aged 73 on the 29th January 1893 she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 2^nd February, also in the same grave are her daughter and son-in-law Sarah and George Bryant.

Her husband John died on the 25^th December 1899 he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 30^th December.

Mrs P page 121 LN (K) 5

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