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Personal Details of Sarah Curtis

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Born:
Died:	29/09/1888
Buried:	02/10/1888

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

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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	Sarah Curtiss
Date of burial	02/10/1888
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Conscrated Common Internment
By whom buried	Reverend W Pheasent
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 040

Accounts Entry for Sarah Curtis
© 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:	Sarah Curtise
Date of death:	29 September 1888
Age at death:	77
Parish from which they were admitted to the workhouse:	Greenham
Where buried:	Newbury Cemetery
Workhouse Master:	William Hawkes
Comments:	The new reunion workhouse death records show Curtise

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

DEATHS Sarah Curtis

Source:	NWN
Article date:	04/10/1888
Copyright:
Transciption:	Newbury Weekly News Dated 4^th October 1888 CURTIS – Sept. 29, at the Workhouse, Newbury, Sarah, widow of Adam Curtis, late of Newbury, aged 78
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Sarah Curtis.

Sarah Curtis

Sarah Curtis

c1812-1888

Sarah Danvass/Danvers was born c1812 in Newbury she was the daughter of Samuel and Phoebe Danvers.

In 1815 Sarah (3) was living in Lewis’s Yard (on the west side of Northbrook Street) Newbury with her parents Samuel (30), a Barge Carter and Phoebe and her sisters Elizabeth (4) and Mary an infant.

Sarah also had at least 2 other siblings Maria born c1825 and Caroline born c1831.

Sarah married Adam Curtis (born c1813) on the 5^th October 1834 at St Nicolas Church Newbury, they had the following children:

Amelia c 1834

Elizabeth c1835

George c1837

Mary Ann c1839

Emma Maria 1841 (died aged 1 in 1842)

Charlotte born 1843 baptised 25^th June 1843 at St Nicolas Church Newbury

Victoria 1845 (died aged 2 in 1848)

Richard James 1847

Frederick 1850

Edwin c1852 (died aged 1 in 1853 buried on the 27^th July in the NRC (recorded as Edward)

Walter 1856 (died aged 3 in 1859 buried on the 25^th February in the NRC)

The family lived in Mayor Lane Newbury and Adam worked as an Agricultural Labourer (1841), a Corn Porter’s Labourer (1851) (recorded as a Cripple no occupation 1861) and a Glass Dealer (1871).

Adam died aged 67 in 1879 he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 27^th September.

After her husband’s death Sarah worked as a Straw Dealer and continued to live at Mayor Lane until at least 1881. Later records show that she was admitted to the workhouse from the parish of Greenham where she died aged 77 on the 29^th September 1888 she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 2^nd October.

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