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Personal Details of Charlotte Elizabeth Hemsted

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Buried:	05/12/1868

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Birth

Name at birth

Charlotte Elizabeth Hemsted

Date of birth

Gender at birth

Girl

Father's name

Henry Bursey

Mother's name

Charlotte Heather

Mother's maiden name

Place of birth

Newington, Surrey

Parent's address at birth

GRO certificate index

Year	1844
Quarter	March
District	Newington, Surrey
Volume	4
Page	346

Information Sources

Ancestry/FreeBMD

Death

Name at death

Charlotte Elizabeth Hemsted

Maiden name

Bursey

Date of death

Age at death

Gender at Death

Female

Cause of Death

Phthisis 4 years Anasarca 2weeks

Place of Death

Railway Street, Gillingham, Kent

Usual Address

as above

GRO certificate index

Year	1868
Quarter	December
District	Medway, Kent.
Volume	2a
Page	264

Information Sources

Ancestry/FreeBMD

Death certificate for Charlotte Elizabeth Hemsted*
Provided by FNRC

Burial Register

Name at death

Charlotte Hemsted

Age at Death

Burial Date

05 December 1868

Abode

Chatham, Kent.

Official at Burial

The Rev'd. W Milton, Curate of Newbury

Comments

Not sure of Official's name

Burial Register Index

Book	1868
Page Number	004
Reccord Number	2428

Sources

Burial Register

Memorial Details

	Flat stone, top of vault: In Memory of / Eliza, Relict of the Rev. May Ellis / Rector of Ickford, Bucks. / died May 6th.1864 aged 56 years / Also Sarah, Relict of Rev. John Charles Townsend / of Newbury, Berks. / died May 10th. 1868 aged 88 years. / Also Charlotte, wife of / Lieutenant Edward Hemsted / 109th. Regiment / died December 22nd. 1868 aged 24 years. / Also of Ellen, wife of / John Whitelock, Esq. / of Owosso, Michigan, U.S.A. / died March 14th. 1870 aged 39 years. / Also Charles Hemsted / of Newbury. / died August 3rd. 1870 aged 36 years. / Also Anne, wife of Stephen Hemsted, Esq., / of Newbury, Berks. / died July 28th. 1876 aged 70 years / and was buried next to this vault on the North side. / Also Anne, wife of W.S.H. May, Esq., died March 1st.1883 aged 37 years. / Buried at Brockley Cemetery / Also Stephen Hemsted of Newbury / died April 10th. 1885 aged 82 years. / Buried on the North side of this vault. //

Name on Memorial	Charlotte HEMSTED
Date of death	22/12/1868
Age	24
Gender	Female

Memorial Type	Vault covered with a large flat stone flush with ground.
Construction Material	Sandstone Engraved
Condition of memorial	Good but easily covered by grass. Lichen over MI in places but can be read.
Pattison Location Code	ChNW12 page 93
Recorder's Notes	The Townsend/Ellis/Hemsted family lived in Bartholomew St., Newbury. See website for obits of Eliza Ellis & her mother, Sarah Townsend. Both wives of vicars. Eliza was the wife of the Vicar of Ickford, Bucks., Rev William May Ellis, MA Christ Church, Oxon, who predeceased her. Charlotte Hemsted was the daughter of Henry Bursey, surgeon & general practitioner in Southwark, (buried elsewhere in NRC but grave not recorded by Mrs P.), & first wife of Lt. Col. Edward Hemsted, son of Anne & Stephen Hemsted snr., Edward is buried in St Peter's, Drayton nr Abingdon. Ellen Whitelock was daughter of Stephen & Anne Hemsted. Charles Hemsted, Ellen's brother, was a Midshipman, RN & 2nd Mate, Merchant Navy. Anne Hemsted, mother to Ellen & Charles, was the d. of Sarah & J.C.Townsend and wife of Stephen MA Oxon, MRCS, JP, surgeon, of Bartholomew St., Newbury, left £9000 to son Stephen Hemsted. She bequeathed land for the building of a meeting room for St George's, Wash Common (see FNRC website). Stephen Hemsted snr. graduated from St John's College, Oxon in 1852. Both Anne & Stephen are buried by the North side of the vault. Anne May was d. of Anne & Stephen Townsend, wife of William Simonds Higgs May, farmer, landowner & gentleman of Reading. Sources: Mrs Pattinson's records were corrected or confirmed by further inspection of the grave & by using records on ancestry uk. The place name Owosso was confirmed using Google. Anne May's burial is recorded at Brockley Cemetery https://www.deceasedonline.com/servlet/GSDOSearch.
Others named on memorial
Eliza ELLIS
Sarah TOWNSEND
Ellen WHITELOCK
Charles HEMSTED
Anne HEMSTED
Anne MAY
Stephen HEMSTED

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	Charlotte Hemsted
Date of burial	05/12/1868
Whence brought	Chatham
Where & how buried	Consecrated - Family Vault
By whom buried	Rev'd. W. Milton
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 98

Biographical Information

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