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Personal Details of Charles Hill

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Buried:	22/07/1853

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

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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	Charles Hill
Date of burial	22/07/1853
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated Ground - Common Interment
By whom buried	Rev'd. H.T. White
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 14

Accounts Entry for Charles Hill
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Charles Hill.

Charles Hill

Charles Hill (1804 – 1853)

Eliza Hill (1809 – 1880)

Charles Hill was born circa 1804 in Newbury. Charles married Eliza Heath on 25 December 1825 at St Nicolas in Newbury. Eliza was born circa 1809 in Newbury.

In the 1841 census Charles and Eliza were living in a yard just off Bartholomew Street in Newbury with children Louisa aged 15, Sarah aged 8, Caroline aged 5 and Charles aged 1. Charles did not have an occupation recorded.

Ten years later in the 1851 census Charles and Eliza were in Bartholomew Terrace just off Pound Street in Newbury with children Caroline aged 13, Charles aged 10, Henry aged 6 & Charlotte aged 5. Charles was recorded as a coal merchant.

Charles died July 1853 aged 49 and was buried at Newtown Road Cemetery on 22 July 1853.

In the 1861 census Eliza was living in Robson’s Yard just off Bartholomew Street in Newbury with sons Charles and Henry and daughter Caroline. Eliza was recorded as a charwoman, Charles and Henry as general labourers and Caroline as a general servant.

Eliza was recorded by herself in the 1871 census living at 3 Chubbs Yard just off Bartholomew Street in Newbury and her occupation was a hawker.

Eliza died 4 November 1880 in Newbury Union Workhouse and was buried at Newtown Road Cemetery on 8 November 1880. An announcement appeared in the Newbury Weekly News dated 11 November 1880 which read as below.

HILL – November 4, at the Workhouse, Newbury, Eliza Hill, aged 71.

Charles and Eliza’s son Charles married Harriet Richardson in Newbury in 1861. Charles and Harriet and five of their children were buried at Newtown Road Cemetery. Charles on 13 January 1892 aged 51, Harriet on 28 April 1928 aged 90, daughters Annie Maria on 23 January 1877 and Alice on 17 September 1880, sons Albert Edward on 27 July 1908, John on 14 October 1921 and Frank on 9 May 1922.

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