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Personal Details of Mary Elkins

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Buried:	01/06/1857

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

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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.

Memorial Details

	STMO/ Samuel ELKINS/ For many years/ an inhabitant of this Town/ who departed this life/ Oct. 7th. 1857/ in the 66th. Of his age. Also of Mary, his wife,/ who died May 22nd. 1857 aged 65 years./ "The Lord Taketh pleasure ................ Also Samuel ELKINS/ eldest son of the above/ died Nov. 22nd. 1877/ aged 44. * "............ motto unreadable.

Name on Memorial	Mary Elkins
Date of death	22/05/1857
Age	65
Gender	Female

Memorial Type
Construction Material
Condition of memorial
Pattison Location Code	S17
Recorder's Notes	*There is a Samuel Elkins who died in Camberwell in Dec. qrt. 1877 aged 49
Others named on memorial
Samuel Elkins
Samuel Elkins

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	Mary Elkins
Date of burial	01/06/1857
Whence brought	Middlesex
Where & how buried	Unconsecrated Ground - Brick Grave
By whom buried	Rev'd. Jos'h Drew
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 34

Accounts Entry for Mary Elkins
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

Mary Elkins

Source:	Reading Mercury
Article date:	30/05/1857
Copyright:	Reading Mercury
Transciption:	MARY ELKINS On the 22^nd inst., in London, Mary, the beloved wife of Mr. Samuel Elkins, late of Newbury, deeply lamented.
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

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Mary Elkins

Mary Elkins

She was born c. 1792 in Devizes, Wiltshire. The 1851 census records she is living in West Street, aged 60 years, with her husband Samuel Elkins, a Cordwainer, and their daughter Mary, aged 23 - a Governess, and son Alfred, aged 20 - a Lawyer’s Clerk. They had 3 other children – Caroline, born 1825 who died aged 4 months; Samuel, born 1828; and John, born 1831 who died aged only 6 days old.

She died aged 65 years on 22 May 1857 in London and she was buried in Newbury on 1 June 1857. Her son Alfred was living in London at the time and he married Mary Ann Allen on 23 December 1857 at St. Pancras Church, London.

Sources: BMD 2Q 1857 Death; Reading Mercury dated 30 May 1857; 1851 Census

Mrs. P. Code S17, page 8.

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