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Personal Details of Charles Wheeler

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Buried:	16/03/1857

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Birth

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Death

Name at death

Wheeler Charles

Date of death

Age at death

Gender at Death

Male

Cause of Death

Pneumonia

Place of Death

Usual Address

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Information Sources

Death certificate for Charles Wheeler*
Provided by Charles Wheeler death cert 1857

Burial Register

There is no burial register information available for Charles Wheeler.
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.

Memorial Details

	From top of headstone: Sacred to the memory of/ Alice Wheeler/ who died March 10th. 1856/ aged 6 years./ Also of Charles Wheeler/ father of the above/ who died March 14th,1857/ aged 34 years./ Also of John Giles/ who died July 3rd. 1867/ in the 70th. year of his age./ Also of / Elizabeth Giles/ relict of the above/ who died June 2nd. 1872/ in her 77th. year. Footstone: A.W./ 1856/ C.W. 1837 J.G. 1868/ F.G. 1872/ G & W

Name on Memorial	Charles WHEELER
Date of death	14/03/1857
Age	34
Gender	Male

Memorial Type	Headstone and footstone
Construction Material	Red sandstone with engraved letters
Condition of memorial	Fair
Pattison Location Code	W147
Others named on memorial
Alice WHEELER
John GILES
Elizabeth GILES

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 Wheeler
Date of burial	16/03/1857
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated Ground - Family Vault
By whom buried	Rev'd. H.J. White
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 34

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

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

DEATHS Charles Wheeler

Source:	Berkshire Chronicle
Article date:	14/03/1857
Copyright:
Transciption:	Berkshire Chronicle Dated 14^th March 1857 March 10, after a few days’ illness, Mr. Charles Wheeler, Market-place, Newbury aged 34 years, much respected and universally regretted.
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Charles Wheeler.

Charles Wheeler c1822-1857

Charles Wheeler

c1822-1857

Charles his parents, siblings and early life:

Charles was baptised on the 10^th April 1822 at St Nicolas Church Newbury, Berkshire, the son of John and Ann Wheeler (nee Bird) who were married on the 20^th October 1811 in Greenham, Berkshire.

Charles’ father was born c1787 in Berkshire, he died aged 57 in Newbury in 1845.

His mother Ann was born c1786 in Maidenhead, Berkshire. In 1851, after her husband’s death she was recorded as a Grocer, living alone in Marsh View, Ecchinswell, Hampshire. In 1861 she was recorded living with her married daughter Sarah Lucas (47) and her family at 2 Bartholomew Street, Newbury. She died aged 76 on the 5^th September 1862 and was laid to rest in a private grave in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 9^th September.

John and Ann also had the following children baptised at St Nicolas Church Newbury:

Twins, Sarah and Ann (born in Greenham) and another daughter Jane, baptised 26^th November 1815

Thomas, baptised 24^th August 1817

Caroline Amelia, baptised 19^th July 1820

Sylvia, baptised 8^th December 1824

Arthur, baptised 3^rd December 1826

Frances, baptised 18^th January 1830

(Baptisms 1815-1817 record John as a Cheese Factor, baptisms 1820-1830 record him as a Shopkeeper)

In 1815 John (28), Ann (28) and their twin daughters Sarah and Ann aged 1 were living in John Hawkins Yard, Newbury.

The 1841 census records Charles (15) living in Northbrook Street Newbury with his father John Wheeler (50) a Grocer, his mother Ann (50) a Grocer and his siblings, Sarah (25), a Shop Woman Thomas (15) a Clerk, Caroline (15), Sylvia (15), Arthur (12) and Frances (9).

Charles in later life:

Charles married in 1848

Marriage details:

Place: St Mary, Speenhamland, Berkshire.

Date: 19^th June 1848

Groom: Charles Wheeler, full age, bachelor, occupation, Accountant, abode, Speenhamland

Bride: Elizabeth Giles, full age, spinster, abode, Newbury

Fathers: John Giles, a News Agent and John Wheeler a Carrier

Witnesses: Dennis Taylor, Sarah Hobbs, Elizabeth Chalke and Samuel George Hunt

(Elizabeth was baptised on the 13^th November 1827 at St Laurence, Reading, Berkshire, the daughter of John (a Publican/Victualler, later a News Agent for the Reading Mercury) and Elizabeth Giles (nee Kemp) who were married on the 14^th November 1822 in Shinfield, Berkshire).

Charles and Elizabeth had two daughters, Alice born in 1851, (died aged 6 on the 10^th March 1856, buried in the NRC on the 19^th March) and Kate born in 1853 and a son John Giles Wheeler born c1849.

The 1851 census records Charles Wheeler (27) as a Lawyer’s Clerk, living with his father-in-law, John Giles (53), his mother-in-law Elizabeth Giles (55), his wife Elizabeth (23) and their son John (2), in the Market Place, Newbury.

Charles later became the collector of the poor rates, property tax, rents &c.

He died aged 34, after a short illness, on the 14^th March 1857. He was laid to rest in a family vault in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 16^th March with his daughter Alice (buried 1856).

(His father-in-law and mother-in-law John and Elizabeth Giles and his daughter Alice Wheeler were also buried in the family vault. Alice was buried in 1856, John was also buried in 1867 and Elizabeth was buried in 1872)

Mrs P Page 24 W147

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