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Personal Details of Edward Burford

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Buried:	05/08/1851

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Burial Register

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Cemetery accounts

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The Ledgers are held at the Berkshire Records Office.

Name at death	Edward Burford
Date of burial	05/08/1851
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Common interment - Consecrated Ground
By whom buried	Rev'd. H.T. White
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 5

Accounts Entry for Edward Burford
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Biographical Information

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Edward Burford c1776-1851

Edward Burford

c1776-1851

Edward, his parents, siblings and early life:

Edward was baptised on the 26^th July 1776 at St Nicolas Church, Newbury, Berkshire, the son of Henry and Sincere Burford (nee Clifford) who were married on the 22^nd January 1776 at St Nicolas Newbury. (Surname recorded as Barrett on Hardwicke Marriage Index)

Edward’s father Henry Burford died aged 57 in 1808, he was buried on the 8^th June at St Nicolas Newbury.

His mother Sincere Burford died aged 83 in 1835, she was buried on the 29^th December at St Nicolas Newbury.

Henry and Sincere also had the following children baptised at St Nicolas Newbury:

Sincere baptised 7^th July 1780 (died aged 22 in 1803, buried 28^th April at St Nicolas Newbury)

Nelly baptised 24^th November 1782

Charlotte baptised May 1785

John baptised 24^th June1793

Joseph 25^th December 1760-1803 (year unknown)

Edward in later life:

Edward married Mary Reeves on the 21^st February 1803, St Leonard, Heston, Hounslow, Middlesex. (banns 10^th 17^th and 24^th Oct 1802)

(According to the 1851 census Mary was born in Devizes, Wiltshire)

They had the following children baptised at St Leonard, Heston, Hounslow, Middlesex

Edward Reeves baptised 21^st November 1802, base born son of Mary Reeves by Edward Burford

Sarah baptised 11^th December 1803

Eleanor baptised 7^th July 1808 (died aged 2 years, buried 19^th August 1810 at St Leonard, Heston)

Joseph, baptised 31^st March 1811

By 1815 the family were living in Newbury, Berkshire. The 1815 census of Newbury records Edward (40), a Smith, Mary (40) and their children Sarah (10) and Joseph (3), living in the City, Newbury. Edward was recorded as being blind and Mary was recorded as being deaf. Edward’s mother Sincere (60) was recorded as a Gardener and was also living in the City, Newbury, with her son John Burford (20)

The 1841 census records Edward Burford (60) and Mary Burford (65) living in Church Almshouses, Newbury.

Edward (75) and Mary Burford (76), (surname recorded as Barrett on ancestry) were still living in Church Almshouses, Newbury in 1851. Their granddaughter Ellen Goddard (17), a Servant (daughter of John and Sarah Goddard (nee Burford) was recorded living with them.

Edward died aged 75 in 1851, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 5^th August.

Mary died aged 84 in 1856, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 7^th January.

(Surname recorded as Barefoot on death registration and Newtown Road Cemetery burial record and Burford on the BBI and NBI)

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