Personal Details of Richard Palmer
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| Buried: | 20/06/1908 |
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Burial Register
| Name at death | Richard Palmer | ||||||
| Age at Death | 54 | ||||||
| Burial Date | 20 June 1908 | ||||||
| Abode |
Union Workhouse
Newbury |
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| Official at Burial | A B Barnes | ||||||
| Comments | Newbury union workhouse death records: Richard Palmer, aged 54, died 17 June 1908, from Newbury, buried Newbury Cemetery (by wife). | ||||||
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Burial Register entry for Richard Palmer
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Burial Register Entry for Richard Palmer
Newspaper Cuttings
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Richard Palmer
| Source: | Newbury Weekly News and West Berkshire War Memorials |
| Article date: | 08/09/2016 |
| Copyright: | Newbury Weekly News and West Berkshire War Memorials |
| Transciption: | RICHARD PALMER
It is probably safe to assume that Richard Palmer, who, at 54, was buried in an unmarked grave at Newtown Road Cemetery on 20th June, 19081, was the father of Walter Henry Palmer.
The son Walter was a casualty at the Battle of Jutland on 31st May, 1916. This was recalled in the Newbury Weekly News on 8th September 1916 in their “First World War Remembered” series, and is detailed in the West Berkshire War Memorials Website2.
These include family details and the following is an extract from the latter.
Walter was born on 14 September 1898, the son of Richard Palmer and his wife Elizabeth Maud, née Whiteman. In all Richard and Elizabeth had six children: Annie Maud (born 1892), Ernest Alexandria (1896), Walter Henry (1898), Elsie May (1901), Winifred Evelyn (1904) and Leslie Francis R (1907).
Richard was a groom, born in Lambourn, who came to Newbury in the 1870s after his sister Elizabeth married Henry Wainwright and settled in the town. He married Elizabeth Whiteman, his second wife, in 1891.
He died in 1908 (in his early 50's3), when Walter was only nine years old, leaving Elizabeth in a very precarious position. She was rescued from this position when she remarried in 1909 to William Charles Westall; she had another child, Daisy Louise, later that same year.
Brian Sylvester September 2016 1 His 'abode' listed in the burial records is given as 'Union Workhouse'. 2 For the full text see: http://westberkshirewarmemorials.org.uk/texts/stories/WBP01013S.php 3 From the NWN article dated 8th September, 2016. |
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Biographical Information
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Richard Palmer
Richard Palmer who died 20th June 1908
Richard Palmer was my Great Grandfather (on my English side!). He was born in Lambourn on 5th March 1856 son of a Farm Bailiff and at the 1871 Census he is shown as a plough boy working at Henley Farm, Shefford. He must have enjoyed working with horses as he next appears in the 1881 Census as a Groom working in a big house at 32 Winchcombe Place, Newbury where he met his first wife, my Great Grandmother, Elizabeth Greenaway who also worked there as a Domestic, She came originally from Peasmore. They married on 4th June 1881 and they had three children, two daughters and my Grandfather, another Richard Palmer, who was born in 1889. Elizabeth, died on 1st March 1891 of Phthisis, probably in the Newbury Workhouse (as the death informant was Wm Hawkes the Master of the Union Workhouse and was buried in St Nicholas' Church in Newbury. The burial index for Berkshire says St Nicholas church whereas many of the Workhouse dead seems to have been buried in the Newbury Cemetery, not sure why she as buried there unless her employer paid? At that point unable to look after my Grandfather who was only 2, it appears that he packed him off to his maternal Grandfather back in Peasmore. Later that same year he married his second wife Elizabeth Whiteman who survived him and, after his death, remarried in 1909. She lived lived to ripe old age of 85! My Grandfather, Richard Palmer, became a policeman in East London and died in 1930 after being involved in a road accident whilst on traffic duty.
Anthony Makosinski
Author: A Makosinski
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