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Personal Details of James Powers

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Buried:	18/10/1858

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

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Birth

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Death

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Burial Register

There is no burial register information available for James Powers.
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: Sacred to the Memory of / James Powers / who died Oct 15 1858 / aged 18 years / " …………such an hour……son of man cometh…St Matt XXXIV. 14 / Also Mary Powers / mother of the above / died Nov. 1st 1875 / aged 69 years. // Footstone: J, P. 1858 / M. P. 1875 //

Name on Memorial	James Powers
Date of death	15/10/1858
Age	18
Gender	Male

Memorial Type	Headstone & footstone
Construction Material	Sandstone Engraved
Condition of memorial	MI unclear. Headstone sound. Footstone laid on ground
Pattison Location Code	NW(E)4
Others named on memorial
Mary Powers

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	James Powers
Date of burial	18/10/1858
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated Ground - Common Interment
By whom buried	Rev'd. W.F. Norris
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 42

Accounts Entry for James Powers
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

deaths - James Powers

Source:	reading mercury
Article date:	23/10/1858
Copyright:
Transciption:	An announcement appeared in the Reading Mercury of 23 October 1858 as below. On the 15th. inst., at Newbury, Mr. James Powers, builder, aged 48, much respected by all who knew him.
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about James Powers.

James Powers (1810 – 1858)

James Powers (1810 – 1858)

Jamms Powers was born circa 1810 in Newbury. James married Maria Sayers on 5 August 1832 at St Nicolas in Newbury. Maria was born circa 1811 in London.

In the 1841 census James and Maria were recorded living in Trafalgar Place, off Bartholomew Street in Newbury with James a bricklayer. Ten years later in the 1851 census James and Maria were recorded living in Speen, with James still a bricklayer.

James died on 15 October 1858 and he was buried at Newtown Road Cemetery on 18 October. He left a will and probate was granted on 10 December 1858 at Oxford to his widow Maria, the value of the estate was under £100.

An announcement appeared in the Reading Mercury of 23 October 1858 as below.

On the 15th. inst., at Newbury, Mr. James Powers, builder, aged 48, much respected by all who knew him.

Maria remarried on 21 March 1863 at St John in Newbury to Charles Phillips. She died on 22 November 1891 at Bartholomew Street aged 79 and she was buried on 25 November at Newtown Road Cemetery. A more detailed biography of Maria can be found under her name after her second marriage of Maria Phillips.

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