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Personal Details of Phoebe Saunders

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Born:
Died:	04/07/1857
Buried:	08/07/1857

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Birth

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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

	In Memory of / Phebe the wife of/ James Saunders who died July 4th 1857 aged 48 years

Name on Memorial	Phebe Saunders
Date of death	04/07/1857
Age	48
Gender	Female

Memorial Type	Headstone
Construction Material	Unknown
Condition of memorial	Unknown
Pattison Location Code	PM(9)
Recorder's Notes	Stone not found in latest survey (March 2020). Inscription derived from Margaret Pattison's survey.

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	Phoebe Saunders
Date of burial	08/07/1857
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Unconsecrated Ground - Common Interment
By whom buried	Rev'd. J.G. Wilson
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 35

Accounts Entry for Phoebe Saunders
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Phoebe Saunders.

Phoebe Saunders c1809-1857

Phoebe Saunders

c1809-1857

Phoebe Wilder was born in Newbury, the daughter of Edward & Phoebe Wilder (formerly Brunsdon, nee Field) who married in Wallingford in 1809. Phoebe’s mother died aged 32 in 1814 she was buried on the 16^th March at St Nicolas Newbury. Her father remarried in Newbury in 1815, his 2^nd wife was Hannah Carver.

The 1815 census of Newbury records the family as follows:

Abode: west side of Cheap Street Newbury

Edward Wilder aged 40, Coach and Horses

Hannah Wilder aged 34

Phoebe Wilder aged 6 Daughter of 1^st Wife

The 1830 Pigot’s Directory of Berkshire records Phoebe as a Straw Hat Maker in Cheap Street, Newbury. The 1839 Robson’s Directory of Berkshire also records Phoebe as a Straw Hat Maker, in Chesterton Court, Bartholomew Street, Newbury.

Phoebe married James Saunders (born c1807 in Salisbury Wiltshire) on the 17^th February 1828 at St Nicolas Church Newbury.

James and Phoebe had the following children baptised at St Nicolas:

Phoebe baptised 14^th June 1829, father recorded as a Smith (died aged 13 months in 1830)

Phoebe Ann baptised 27^th March 1831, father recorded as a Smith

James baptised 24^th April 1833 father recorded as an Iron Founder (died aged 8 days)

Amelia baptised 4^th May 1834 father recorded as an Iron Founder (died aged 23 in 1857 buried in the NRC 19^th October)

Twins: James and Thomas baptised 25^th May 1836 father recorded as a Whitesmith. (James died aged 9 in 1845. Thomas died aged 11 in 1848)

Edwin baptised 29^th March 840 father recorded as a Whitesmith

Twins: Clara and Louisa 1842 (no baptisms found) (Louisa died aged 7 weeks in 1842 and Clara died aged 5 in 1848)

Louisa Field baptised 26^th April 1846 father recorded as a Smith

Thomas Field baptised 29^th September 1850 father recorded as a Smith

Twins: Frederick James and George Aubrey 1853 (no baptisms found) (George Aubrey died 2 in 1856, buried in the NRC on the 8^th April and Frederick James died aged 12 in 1865, buried in the NRC on the 9^th August))

The family were living in St Mary’s Hill, Newbury in 1841 and Pleasant Place, Newbury in 1851.

Phoebe died aged 48 on the 4^th July 1857, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 8^th July.

James remarried in 1859 his 2^nd wife was a widow, Mary Ann Ashley (nee Clack). He died aged 54 the following year and was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 17^th August 1860.

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