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Personal Details of John Keys

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Buried:	08/10/1855

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Birth

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Death

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Burial Register

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Stillborn children were not recorded in the burial register, only in the cemetery accounts.

Memorial Details

	From top of headstone: Sacred to the Memory of/ John Keys/ who died Feb.. 27th. 1863/ aged 82 years./ Also of John Keys/ son of the above/ who died Oct. 4th. 1855 aged 39 years/ And of Maria Banks/ his daughter late of London/ who died Sept.27th. 1861/ aged 29 yrs.

Name on Memorial	John KEYS
Date of death	04/10/1855
Age	39
Gender	Male

Memorial Type	Headstone and footstone
Construction Material	Limestone
Condition of memorial	Fair, engraved letters
Pattison Location Code	WA80
Others named on memorial
John KEYS
Maria BANKS

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	John Keys
Date of burial	08/10/1855
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated Ground - Common Interment
By whom buried	Rev'd. H.T. White
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 24

Accounts Entry for John Keys
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about John Keys.

John Keys

John Keys

c1816-1855

John was born in Newbury he was the son of John and Catherine Keys (nee Brown) who were married on the 21^st October 1813 in Albury Oxfordshire. John was born c1785 in Bucklebury Berkshire and Catherine was born c1790.

John and Catherine also had the following children:

Sarah Ann c1815

Eliza c1821

Harriet c1826

Caroline 1827 (died aged 5 months buried on the 17^th July at St Nicolas Church Newbury)

Maria c1832

In 1815 John’s father, mother and sister, Sarah Ann, were living in Clark’s Buildings (on the west side of Bartholomew Street) Newbury, John’s father was working as a Glazier.

John’s mother died aged 45 in 1835 she was laid to rest on the 8^th April at St Nicolas Church Newbury.

In 1841 John (25) was working as a Plumber, living with his father John (55), also a Plumber and his sisters Elizabeth (20) (Eliza) and Harriet (15) in Bartholomew Street Newbury. Maria (10) was recorded living in Mary Hill Newbury (possibly a school)

The 1851 census records John (35) as a Plumber and Glazier living in Bartholomew Street with his father, who was recorded as a Plumber and Glazier (employing 3 men) and his sister Maria (20).

John died aged 39 on the 4^th October 1855 he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 8^th October.

Both his father John and sister Maria (married name Banks) were also buried in the Cemetery. Maria was buried on the 30^th September 1861 and John was buried on the 4^th March 1863.

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