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Personal Details of William Challis

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Buried:	22/05/1857

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

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Birth

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Death

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Burial Register

There is no burial register information available for William Challis.
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

	Headstone: STMO/ William CHALLIS / who died May 18th. 1857 / aged 53 years. / “grieve not------------- --.” Footstone W C 1857

Name on Memorial	William Challis
Date of death	19/05/1857
Age	53
Gender	Male

Memorial Type	Headstone and footstone
Construction Material	Sandstone
Condition of memorial	Poor, although readable footstone in front of headstone
Pattison Location Code	Ch10(G)

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	William Challis
Date of burial	22/05/1857
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated Ground - Private Grave
By whom buried	Rev'd. H.T. White
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 34

Accounts Entry for William Challis
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Pictures and photographs

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Burial record signed by Henry Godwin for William Challis
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Biographical Information

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William Challis

William Challis found in St. Nick's burials William Challis 22 may 1857 aged 45 therefore in NRC

He is also in Town Hall files as living in Southampton Terrace

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