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Personal Details of James Palmer

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Buried:	22/06/1918

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Burial Register

Name at death

James Palmer

Age at Death

Burial Date

22 June 1918

Abode

3 Belvedere Drive, Newtown Road
Newbury

Official at Burial

A.G.P. Baines

Comments

Burial Register Index

Book	1917
Page Number	018
Reccord Number	9740

Sources

Burial Register

Burial Register entry for James Palmer
©Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Memorial Details

	Top tier of base, east face: In / Loving Memory / of // Middle tier of base, east face: Annie Elizabeth Palmer / born March 10th 1838 /died July 1st. 1914 / "Blessed are the meek." 5 Ch: St Mat. 5 // Outer facing slope, east kerbstone: Also of James Palmer (Lay reader) / died 17th June 1918 / Monday Evening / aged 85 years. / "It shall be well with them that fear God." // Scroll: Also of / Henrietta Louisa / Majendie Palmer / died 29th. Aug. 1920 / aged 82 / "Truly my soul waiteth / upon God: from Him cometh my salvation." //

Name on Memorial	James PALMER
Date of death	17/06/1918
Age	85
Gender	Male

Memorial Type	Cross on 3 tiered base; 4 kerbstones. Scroll.
Construction Material	Limestone Letters
Condition of memorial	Good. Some metal letters missing on scroll
Pattison Location Code	ChNW37
Recorder's Notes	James was born at Weston Farm, Welford, Berks, 650 or so acres employing 35 labourers. He lived on the farm as a farmer until his marriage in 1874 to Henrietta, daughter of the Vicar of Speenhamland, Rev Meakin, in 1874 when he was 41. He later became a teacher and Licesnsed Lay Reader at St John's church. The family was brought up first at Castle Houses, Speen then at 2, then 3, Belvedere Drive, Newtown Rd, Newbury. In the 1911 census he was described as suffering from nerves & head not strong & supplemented his income with boarders, including his spinster sister, Annie (Anne) Elizabeth, who also lived on the farm until she moved in with James' family at Speen and Belvedere. He left £2000+ to Arthur Gray Palmer, son, photographer. Henrietta is the daughter of Rev John Alexander Deverell Meakin, vicar of St Mary's, Speen,Berkshire and Elizabeth Withers of Baydon, Wilts who died when her children were very young. Henrietta's first stepmother died while she was still young and her father married again in 1847. She did not work outside the home. She is recorded in 1911 as having had melancholia for 7 years. Two of her sisters, also bereaved as young children, died in Asylum, one in the Warneford, Oxford, the other in Carlisle. In the 1911 census Annie Elizabeth was recorded as suffering paralysis and Arthur Gray had suffered infantile paralysis. The family always were supported by servants.S ource: Ancestry records.
Others named on memorial
Annie Elizabeth PALMER
Henrietta Louisa Majendie PALMER

Pictures and photographs

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James and Henrietta Palmer
© Michelle Bailey

Biographical Information

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James Palmer

JAMES PALMER

"James Palmer was born in East Garston into a wealthy farming family and became a school master in Shaw.

"He married his first cousin Henrietta Louisa Majendie Meakin. She was born in Speen and her father Henry Meakin was the vicar there. He is buried in front if the church.

"When she was young she visited family in Australia and is related to William Wordsworth.

James Palmer

JAMES PALMER

Anne Elizabeth Palmer was James Palmer's unmarried sister.

The reverend John Alexander Meakin, vicar at Speen, was Henreitta Louisa Majendie Palmer's father. He married three times.

One if his wives was Julia Rachel Myers. Julia died from T B.

Her father was John Myers, William Wordsworth's cousin.

James Palmer and Henrietta Meakin were cousins.

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