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Personal Details of Thomas Gammon

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Buried:	19/03/1858

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Birth

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Death

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Burial Register

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Stillborn children were not recorded in the burial register, only in the cemetery accounts.

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	Thomas Gammon
Date of burial	19/03/1858
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated Ground - Private Grave
By whom buried	Rev'd. W.F. Norris
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 39

Accounts Entry for Thomas Gammon
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

Death - Thomas Gammon

Source:	Berkshire Chronicle
Article date:	20/03/1858
Copyright:
Transciption:	Berkshire Chronicle Dated 20^th March 1858 SUDDEN DEATH. – A case of awfully sudden death occurred to Mr. Thomas Gammon, baker, aged 64 years, Bartholomew Street, of this town. The deceased had been subjected to a disease of the chest for some time past. He retired to rest as usual on Monday last and in the night has occasion to get out of bed, but he got in again, and had scarcely laid down, when he was a corpse. An inquest was held on the body the following day, before J. Bunny, Esq., coroner, and after hearing the evidence, the jury returned a verdict, “Died by the visitation of God.”
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

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Thomas Gammon c1793-1858

Thomas Gammon

c1793-1858

Thomas was born in Warborough Oxfordshire, he was baptised on the 25^th August 1793 in Warborough, the son of John and Anne Gammon.

Thomas married in 1848

Marriage details:

Place: Warborough, Oxfordshire

Date: 18^th October 1848

Groom: Thomas Gammon, full age, bachelor, occupation, Confectioner, abode, Newbury

Bride: Mary Hyatt, full age, spinster, abode, Warborough

Fathers: John Gammon and Richard Hyatt, both Farmers

Witnesses: Charles Hyatt and Ann Maria Coles

(Mary was baptised on the 21^st December 1800 in Warborough, Oxfordshire, the daughter of Richard and Martha Hyatt (nee Carter) who were married on the 4^th June 1792 in Warborough)

The 1851 census records Thomas (55) as a Baker and Mealman, living in Bartholomew Street, Newbury, Berkshire with Mary (48) and two servants, Thomas Wise (15), a Baker’s Assistant and Mary Ann Box (14), a House Servant.

Thomas died aged 64 on the 16^th March 1858, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 19^th March.

Probate: GAMMON Thomas Effects: under £300 27 July 1858 Letters of Administration of the Personal estate and effects of Thomas Gammon late of Newbury in the County of Berks deceased who died 16^th March 1858 at Newbury aforesaid were granted at the Principal Registry to Mary Gammon of Newbury aforesaid Widow the Relict of the said Deceased she having been first sworn.

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