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Personal Details of Anne Elizabeth Palmer

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Buried:	04/07/1914

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Burial Register

Name at death

Anne Elizabeth Palmer

Age at Death

Burial Date

04 July 1914

Abode

3 Belvedere Avenue,
Newbury.

Official at Burial

H W Trotter.

Comments

Burial Register Index

Book	1899
Page Number	261
Reccord Number	9281

Sources

Burial Register

Burial Register entry for Anne Elizabeth 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	Annie Elizabeth PALMER
Date of death	18/07/1914
Age	76
Gender	Female

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
James PALMER
Henrietta Louisa Majendie PALMER

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

Anne Elizabeth Palmer

Source:	NWN
Article date:	04/07/1914
Copyright:
Transciption:	ANNE ELIZABETH PALMER The funeral of the late Miss Palmer, of Belvedere Drive, a zealous worker in St John's parish until overtaken by failing health, took place on Saturday afternoon. The first part of the service was conducted by the Rev. H. W. Trotter, in the church, and the interment was in the family grave at Newbury Cemetery. The mourners were Mr. James Palmer (brother), Miss Palmer (niece), Messrs. J. and A. Palmer (nephews). Newbury Weekly News July 9 1914 Anne Elizabeth Palmer buried 4 July 1914 from 3 Belvedere Avenue aged 76 Bk 1899 p. 261 no 9281
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

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Anne Elizabeth Palmer

ANNE ELIZABETH 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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