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Buried:	23/08/1856

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Burial Register

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Memorial Details

	Slants: IMO MARTHA, youngest and much beloved daughter of John & Sarah DARVILL who departed this life Aug 20th 1856 aged 15 years. "Free from the world of grief and sin with God eternally shut in" Also ERBERT DARVILL died March 30th 1874 aged 7 weeks.

Name on Memorial	Martha DARVILL
Date of death	20/08/1856
Age	15
Gender	Female

Memorial Type	Coped Stone
Construction Material
Condition of memorial	Average, engraved letters
Pattison Location Code	Ma49
Recorder's Notes	Covered in straw.
Others named on memorial
Herbert Darvill PURDUE
Beatrice Ruth Darvill PURDUE

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	Martha Darvill
Date of burial	23/08/1856
Whence brought	Speenhamland
Where & how buried	Unconsecrated Ground - Brick Grave
By whom buried	Rev'd. Sam'l. Turner
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 30
Transcription comments	FreeBMD lists surname as DARVELL

Accounts Entry for Martha Darvill
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Biographical Information

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Martha Darvill 1840-1856

Martha Darvill

1840-1856

Martha was born in Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, the daughter of John and Sarah Darvill (nee Edmonds) who were married in 1818 in Princes Risborough.

John and Sarah also had the following children:

Caroline born 1820

Susanna born 1822

George born 1826

Benjamin born 1828

Ruth born 1833

Esther born 1839

The 1841 census records John (40) as a Farmer, living in Saunderton, Buckinghamshire, with Sarah (40), Caroline (20), George (14), Benjamin (11), Ruth (8), Esther (2) and Martha (7 months). (surname mistakenly recorded as Dwight on ancestry)

In 1851 Martha (10) was living at Church Farm, Saunderton, with her father John (53), a Farmer of 200 acres, employing 8 Labourers, her mother Sarah (52), her sisters Ruth (17), Esther (11) and a House Servant.

Martha died aged 15 on the 20^th August 1856 in Newbury (death registered as Martha Darvell, in the September quarter). She was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 23^rd August. (Also buried in the same grave were her nephew Herbert Darvill Purdue (buried 1871) and her niece Beatrice Darvill Purdue (buried 1874) the children of her married sister Ruth.

The 1861 census records John (63) as a Miller, employing 5 men and 1 boy, living in West Mills, Newbury, with Sarah (62), their daughter Esther (21) and a General Servant.

The 1871 census records John (73) as a retired Miller, living at 33 West Mills, Newbury, with Sarah (72) their widowed daughter Caroline Plater (51) (nee Darvill, formerly Hughes, later married Job Pearce) and a Domestic Servant. (Surname mistakenly recorded as Darwell on ancestry)

By 1874 John and Sarah had moved back to Buckinghamshire.

Sarah died aged 75 in 1874 and John died aged 82 on the 14^th January 1881. (Both deaths recorded in Wycombe)

Mrs P Page 196 Code Ma 49

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