Personal Details of James Quinton
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| Buried: | 18/09/1903 |
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Burial Register
| Name at death | James Quinton | ||||||
| Age at Death | 71 | ||||||
| Burial Date | 18 September 1903 | ||||||
| Abode |
Union Workhouse
Newbury |
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| Official at Burial | G Daysfield | ||||||
| Comments | Not sure about officials name | ||||||
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Burial Register entry for James Quinton
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Burial Register Entry for James Quinton
Newspaper Cuttings
The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.
DEATHS -- James Quinton
| Source: | NWN |
| Article date: | 24/09/1903 |
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| Transciption: | Newbury Weekly News Dated 24th September 1903 QUINTON – Sept. 14, at the Workhouse, James Quinton, of Newbury, aged 71.
Newbury Union Workhouse Death Records: James Quinton, aged 71, 14 September 1903, from Newbury, Corpse removed by relations |
| Source: | NWN |
| Article date: | 20/05/1886 |
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| Transciption: | The Newbury Weekly News dated 20th May 1886 reported the following:
BOROUGH POLICE COURT FRIDAY Before the Mayor (R. Ravenor Esq), J. H. Mason, and J. Absolom Esqrs.
CHARGE OF ASSAULTING WIFE. James Quinton was charged with assaulting his wife, Sarah Ann Quinton, on the 8th May. Complainant said she went to the “Robin Hood” to speak to her husband, when he abused her and struck her. They had been married five-and-twenty years. The Bench fined defendant £1 and 9s costs or 14 days hard labour. Defendant expressed himself unable to pay, but his son offered to find the money.
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THE CASE OF DESERTION
| Source: | NWN |
| Article date: | 19/08/1886 |
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Newbury Weekly News dated the 19th August 1886 reported the following:
BOROUGH POLICE COURT FRIDAY Before the Mayor (R. Ravenor Esq), J. P. Jackson, and S. Hemsted Esqrs.
THE CASE OF DESERTION Mr. Scard, solicitor, of Greenwich, made an application to the Bench in the matter of James Quinton, who was recently summoned for deserting his wife, and ordered to pay 6s a week towards her maintenance. Mr. Scard applied that the case should be re-heard, urging that the conduct of the wife had driven Quinton from home. The Bench declined to grant the application. |
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Biographical Information
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James Quintin/Quinton 1833-1903
James Quintin/Quinton
1833-1903
James was born on the 20th August 1833 in Hawkchurch Dorset, he was baptised on the 2nd March 1834 at Morcombe Lake Independent, Dorset, the son of Samuel (a Labourer) and Mary Quintin (nee Gayer/Gaylor) who were married in 1808 in Allington, Dorset.
Samuel and Mary also had the following children (baptised in Hawkchurch):
Mary 19th February 1809
Peter 22nd October 1811
Ann 8th may 1814
Samuel 25th February 1816
Elizabeth 21st May 1820
Eliza 8th May 1824
Eliza 26th December 1824
Sarah 11th February 1827
Jane 7th January 1832
In 1841 James (7) was living in Hawkchurch, Dorset with his father Samuel (57), his mother Mary (52), his brothers Peter (30) and Henry (18) and his sister Ann (11).
The 1861 census records James (27) (surname recorded as Quniting on ancestry) as a Carter, living in Watton, Symondsbury, Dorset.
He married in 1861
Marriage details:
Place: Symondsbury, Dorset
Date: 2nd May 1861
Groom: James Quinting, full age, bachelor, occupation, Labourer, abode, Symondsbury
Bride: Sarah Ann Legg, full age, spinster, abode, Symondsbury
Fathers: Samuel Quinting, a Labourer and John Legg, a Thatcher
Witnesses: John Legg and Mary Legg
Bride and Groom signed
James and Sarah had the following children:
Elizabeth Jane Quintin 1861, baptised 19th January 1862 in Bettiscombe
Samuel Quintin 1862, baptised 19th April 1863 in Bettiscombe
Alice Mary Quinton 1864, baptised 30th July 1865 in Dorchester
James John Quinton 1866, baptised 31st July 1866 in Fordington (died 1867)
Sarah Ann Quinton 1867, baptised 8th December 1867 in Marshwood
Bessie Quinton 1868, baptised 19th May 1869 in Fordington (died 1869)
In 1871 James (38) an Agricultural Labourer, Sarah (33), Eliza Jane (9), Samuel (8), Alice (7) and Sarah Ann (3) were living in Wraxwall, Dorset (surname recorded as Quinton on ancestry)
The 1881 census records James (49) a Labourer, Sarah (44) and their children Samuel (19) a Labourer and Sarah Ann (13), living in Quarkers Burial Ground, Newbury (surname recorded as Quinton on ancestry).
In 1886 James found himself in trouble with the law. The Newbury Weekly News dated 20th May 1886 reported the following:
BOROUGH POLICE COURT
FRIDAY
Before the Mayor (R. Ravenor Esq), J. H. Mason, and J. Absolom Esqrs.
CHARGE OF ASSAULTING WIFE.
James Quinton was charged with assaulting his wife, Sarah Ann Quinton, on the 8th May.
Complainant said she went to the “Robin Hood” to speak to her husband, when he abused her and struck her.
They had been married five-and-twenty years.
The Bench fined defendant £1 and 9s costs or 14 days hard labour. Defendant expressed himself unable to pay, but his son offered to find the money.
Three months later the following appeared in the Newbury Weekly News dated the 19th August 1886 reported the following:
BOROUGH POLICE COURT
FRIDAY
Before the Mayor (R. Ravenor Esq), J. P. Jackson, and S. Hemsted Esqrs.
THE CASE OF DESERTION
Mr. Scard, solicitor, of Greenwich, made an application to the Bench in the matter of James Quinton, who was recently summoned for deserting his wife, and ordered to pay 6s a week towards her maintenance. Mr. Scard applied that the case should be re-heard, urging that the conduct of the wife had driven Quinton from home. The Bench declined to grant the application.
The 1886 and 1887 Electoral Register for Newbury records James living in Bolton Place, Newbury.
By 1891 James (58) and Sarah (58) were living at 2 Crown Place, Newbury, Berkshire, James was working as a Drayman. (Surname recorded as Quinton on ancestry)
Sarah Ann Quintin died 59 on the 26th November 1898, she was laid to rest in a private grave in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 30th November.
The 1897 Electoral Register for Newbury records James living in Golding’s Yard, Newbury
The 1901 census records James Quinton (70) in the Southampton Workhouse he was suffering from Stricture, and was recorded as a Pauper/General Labourer.
He died aged 71 in 1903 in the Newbury Workhouse and was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 18th September. (Surname registered as Quinton at time of death)
Author: Gambles
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