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Personal Details of Mary Smith

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Buried:	03/10/1851

Listed below are all the details we have been able to find so far on Mary Smith.

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Birth

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Death

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Burial Register

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Only three of the five burial register books still exist as far as we know and these are held at the Berkshire Record Office.
Stillborn children were not recorded in the burial register, only in the cemetery accounts.

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	Mary Smith
Date of burial	03/10/1851
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated Ground - Common Interment
By whom buried	Rev'd. H.T. White
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 5

Accounts Entry for Mary Smith
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

Longevity is Newbury.

Source:	Reading Mercury
Article date:	25/10/1851
Copyright:
Transciption:	Longevity is Newbury. From the 5th of September last, to the 3rd of October, five individuals were consecutively interred in the Newbury Cemetery, whose respective ages were 85, 76, 70, 81, and 75, forming an aggregate 387 years. Their names were, Mary Grubb, Elizabeth Lloyd, Sarah Pocock, Elizabeth Shapcott, and Mary Smith. In the previous month of August, two other individuals were buried, of the respective ages of 95 and 91 years. If this should be considered a proof of the unhealthiness and insalubrity of Newbury, an additional fact may produced by a statement, that inmates of almshouses, close upon one spot, may be found, whose ages average 75 years each, forming aggregate 4350 years.
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

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Mary Smith c1772-1851

Mary Smith

c1772-1851

According to the 1851 census Mary (surname unknown) was born in Orsett, Essex.

In 1815 Mary (45) was living on the west side of Mary Hill, Newbury, Berkshire, with her husband Joseph Smith (40), a Tailor, their children, Ann (12), William (6), Hannah (4) and two orphan children, Frances Smith (11) and Mary Smith (13).

Mary was widowed in 1837, Joseph died aged 61, he was buried on the 20^th January, at St Nicolas, Newbury.

The 1851 census records Mary (76) as a Tailor’s Widow/Almshouse Woman, living in St Bartholomew’s Almshouses, Newbury, Berkshire. Her grandsons, Charles Chandler (15), an Apprentice Boat Builder and James Chandler (11), were recorded living with her. (They were the sons of her married daughter Ann and her husband John. Surname mistakenly recorded as Channels on ancestry)

Mary died aged 79 in 1851. She was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 3^rd October.

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