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Buried:	24/06/1851

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Cemetery accounts

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Name at death	Unnamed Pottinger (A still born child of Caroline Pottinger)
Date of burial	24/06/1851
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Unconsecrated Ground
By whom buried
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 4

Accounts Entry for Unnamed Pottinger
© Newbury Town Council
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Biographical Information

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Unnamed (stillborn) Pottinger 1851-1851

Unnamed (stillborn) Pottinger

1851-1851

This child’s parents were James and Caroline Pottinger (nee Giles).

Father: James was born on the 28^th March 1816, he was baptised on the 5^th May 1816 at St Nicolas Church, Newbury, Berkshire, the son of William (a Millwright) and Rachel Pottinger (nee Mouldey) who were married on the 2^nd July 1810, at St Nicolas, Newbury.

Mother: Caroline was baptised on the 23^rd July 1823, at St Nicolas Church, Newbury, the daughter of William (a Labourer) and Mary Giles (formerly Jones, a widow) who were married on the 14^th September 1811, at St Nicolas Church, Newbury.

James and Caroline were married in 1847

Marriage details:

Place: St Nicolas Church, Newbury

Date: 28^th March 1847

Groom: James Pottinger, full age, bachelor, occupation, Bargeman, abode, Newbury

Bridge: Caroline Giles, full age, spinster, abode, Newbury

Fathers: William Pottinger, a Millwright and William Giles, a Labourer

Witnesses: Alfred Giles and George Stillman

Bride and Groom made their mark

They had the following children baptised at St Nicolas Newbury (James recorded as a Labourer on all three baptisms):

Ann Maria, 27^th August 1854

Rachel, 23^rd April 1860 (died 1860 buried in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 15^th May.)

George, 26^th April 1863

The 1851 census records James (31) as a Boat Man, living in Lewis’s Buildings, Bartholomew Street, Newbury, with Caroline (28) and a widower, George Marshall (42), a Shoemaker.

In 1861 James (40), a Labourer in a Flour Mill, Caroline (37) and their daughter Ann Maria (6), were still living in Lewis’s Buildings.

James Pottinger died aged 46 in 1864. He was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 19^th March.

Caroline remarried in 1865

Marriage details:
Place: St Nicolas Church, Newbury

Date: 13^th February 1865

Groom: Henry Townsend, full age, bachelor, occupation, Sawyer, abode, Newbury

Bride: Caroline Pottinger, full age, widow, abode, Newbury

Fathers: William Giles, a Labourer, no father recorded for Henry

Witnesses: Joshua Hamblin and John Redford Stillman

Bride and Groom made their mark

The 1871 census records Henry (47) as a Labourer, living at 19 Shaw’s Lane, Newbury, with Caroline (48), a Charwoman and her children, Ann (16) and George (8).

The 1881 census records Henry (49) a Labourer, living in West Mills, Newbury, with Caroline (57).

In 1891 Henry (68) was again recorded as a Labourer, he was living at 4, Vine’s Buildings, Newbury, with Caroline (66), her son George Pottinger (27) a Labourer, recorded as a boarder and a John Quall (26), a boarder.

Henry Townsend died aged 63 on the 22^nd November 1899, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 25^th November.

The 1901 census records Caroline (78) living at 1, Vine’s Cottages, Kennet Road, Newbury. Her married daughter Ann(e) Dibley (43) and her son-in-law James Dibley (43) a bricklayer, were living with her. (surname recorded as Iownsend on ancestry)

Caroline Townsend died aged 79 on the 16^th April 1903, in the Newbury Workhouse, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 20^th April

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