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Buried:	31/05/1851

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Burial Register

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Memorial Details

	Headstone: TTMO / CALEB HANSON / who died May 28th 1851 / aged 23 years. Footstone: C H / 1851

Name on Memorial	Caleb Hanson
Date of death	28/05/1851
Age	23
Gender	Male

Memorial Type	Headstone and footstone
Construction Material	Sandstone. engraved
Condition of memorial	Good, footstone partly buried
Pattison Location Code	P(L) 4

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	Caleb Hanson
Date of burial	31/05/1851
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Unconsecrated Ground
By whom buried	Rev'd. J.P. Fairbourn
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 4

Accounts Entry for Caleb Hanson
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Biographical Information

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Caleb Hanson c1826-1851

Caleb Hanson

c1826-1851

Caleb was born in Newbury, Berkshire, the son of Thomas and Mary Hanson (nee Preston) who were married on the 28^th August 1823 at St Mary the Virgin, Speen, Berkshire.

His mother Mary was born c1799, (place unknown, 1841 census records, not born in the county of Berkshire), (possible baptism, not proved: 1798 in Ham Wiltshire, daughter of Thomas and Mary Preston (nee Beavis) who married in 1781 in Ham). Mary died aged 45 in 1844, she was buried on the 24^th May at St Nicolas, Newbury.

Caleb’s father Thomas was born on the 2^nd July 1793, he was baptised on the 19^th July 1793, at St Marylebone, Westminster, the son of Thomas and Lucy Hanson. Thomas remarried in 1847, in Newbury, his 2^nd wife was Ann(e) Walling (baptised in 1806 in North Bovey, Devon, the daughter of William and Anne Walling (nee Webber) who were married in North Bovey in 1798). Thomas died aged 72 in 1866, he was buried on the 7^th February, at Ballarat Old Cemetery, Ballarat City, Victoria, Australia.

Caleb’s siblings were (baptised Wesleyan Methodist):

Mary Ann, born 8^th October 1824, baptised 7^th November 1824

Sarah, born 25^th January 1830, baptised 14^th March 1830

Joshua, born 11^th December 1831, baptised 30^th December 1831

Thomas, born 6^th March 1834, baptised 11^th May 1834

Job, born 23^rd February 1837, baptised 23^rd April 1837

Lucy born 1839

Harriet born 1842

The 1841 census records Thomas (45) as a Stonemason, living in Northbrook Street, Newbury, Berkshire, with Mary (40) and their children, Caleb (15), Sarah (10), Joshua (10), Thomas (5) and Lucy (2).

In 1851 Thomas (56), his 2^nd wife Ann (45) and his children, Caleb (24), Joshua (19), Job (14), Lucy (11) and Harriet (9), were living in Northcroft Lane, Newbury. Thomas, Caleb and Joshua were working as Stonemasons and Job was working as a Cow Keeper.

Caleb died aged 25 on the 28^th May 1851, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 31^st May.

Thomas (59), Ann (41), Sarah (22), Joshua (21), Job (16), Lucy (13) and Harriet (11), emigrated to Victoria, Australia on the 23^rd April 1853, they arrived on the 15^th August 1853.

Mrs P Page 182 Code P(L)4

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