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Personal Details of Henry Hopson

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Buried:	26/05/1852

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Burial Register

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Memorial Details

	From top of headstone: Sacred to the Memory of Mary Hopson/ who died Aug. 25th. 1851/ aged 40 years./ Also Henry Hopson who died May 21st 1852 aged 39 years/ Also of Mary Jane wife of/ Stewart Hasell/who died July 5th. 1858 aged 26 years. / "Pleased are the dead who die in the Lord."

Name on Memorial	Henry HOPSON
Date of death	31/05/1852
Age	59
Gender	Male

Memorial Type	Headstone fixed to wall and four kerbstones
Construction Material	Sandstone with engraved letters
Condition of memorial	Fair
Pattison Location Code	W58
Others named on memorial
Mary HOPSON
Mary Jane HASELL

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	Henry Hopson
Date of burial	26/05/1852
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Unconsecrated Ground - Brick Grave
By whom buried	Rev'd. W. Ashley
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 8

Accounts Entry for Henry Hopson
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

DEATHS Henry Hopson

Source:	Reading Mercury
Article date:	22/05/1852
Copyright:
Transciption:	On the 21st inst., Mr. Henry Hopson, of Newbury, builder, aged 39 years
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

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John Hopson Market Place may 1852
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Biographical Information

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Henry Hopson c1813-1852

Henry Hopson

c1813-1852

Henry was baptised on the 16^th May 1813 at St Nicolas Church Newbury, the son of William and Jane Hopson (nee Liddard) who were married on the 2^nd August 1790 at St Nicolas Church Newbury.

His father William was born c1769. He died aged 45 in 1814 and was buried on the 2^nd February at St Nicolas Newbury.

His mother Jane was baptised on the 9^th March 1770 at St Nicolas Church Newbury, the daughter of Edward and Mary Ledyard. Jane died aged 76 in 1843, she was buried on the 7^th March at St Nicolas Newbury.

The 1815 census of Newbury records Henry (2) living in The Marsh on the east side of Northbrook Street, Newbury with his widowed mother Jane (44) and John (17), William (15), Elizabeth (13), Sarah (12), Martha (9), Ann (7) and Mary (3) (presumably his siblings).

Henry married Mary Garland on the 15^th April 1832 at St Nicolas Church Newbury (both were single). Witnesses to the marriage were, Edmund Messenger and Sophia Garland.

(Mary was born on the 14^th December 1810 in Newbury, Berkshire. She was baptised on the 3^rd March 1811 at the Lower Meeting House (Independent) Newbury, the daughter of Benjamin and Mary Garland (nee Maslin) who were married on the 20^th January 1807 at St Nicolas Church Newbury).

Mary and Henry had the following three children baptised at St Nicolas Church Newbury:

Mary Jane 17^th June 1832

Sophia 30^th April 1834 (All three baptisms record Henry as a Bricklayer)

Esther 8^th July 1836

Their daughter Sophia died aged 2 in 1836, she was buried on the 19^th August at St Nicolas Newbury.

The 1841 census records Henry (25), a Bricklayer, Mary (30), a Dressmaker and their two daughters Mary (9) and Esther (5), living in Northbrook Street, Newbury.

The 1851 census records Henry (37) as a Builder, employing 32 men, living in Market Place, Newbury, with Mary (39), Sophia (18), a Milliner and Esther (14)

Mary died aged 40 on the 25^th August 1851, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 30^th August.

Henry died aged 39 on the 21^st May 1852, he was buried with Mary on the 26^th May.

Their married daughter Mary Jane Hasell (married Stewart Nalder Hasell in 1852) died aged 26 on the 5^th July 1858, she was buried with her parents on the 10^th July.

Mrs P Page 14 W58

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