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Personal Details of Lucy Salt

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Buried:	09/07/1859

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

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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

	From top of headstone: Sacred to the Memory of/ Lucy SALT/ who departed this life/ July 6th 1859 aged 11 years./"Short grief, short pain, dear child, was thine/ New Joy Eternal and Divine"

Name on Memorial	Lucy SALT
Date of death	06/07/1859
Age	11
Gender	Female

Memorial Type	Headstone
Construction Material	Limestone
Condition of memorial	Excellent, inlaid letters
Pattison Location Code	LN(A)23

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	Lucy Salt
Date of burial	09/07/1859
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated Ground - Private Grave
By whom buried	Rev'd. W.F. Norris
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 47

Accounts Entry for Lucy Salt
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

Lucy Salt

Source:	Reading Mercury
Article date:	09/07/1859
Copyright:	Reading Mercury
Transciption:	LUCY SALT DEATHS – On the 6^th inst., at the early age of 14, Lucy Salt, the beloved niece of Miss Cooke, 38, Northbrook-street, Newbury.
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Lucy Salt.

Lucy Salt

Lucy Salt

Her parents Robert Salt, a journeyman carpenter, and Caroline née Cook, were married on 4 June 1842 in Lambourn. Her elder sister Jane was born in 1843 (2Q) and Lucy was born a year later. She was baptised on 25 December 1844. Another sister, Ann, was born in 1847. Their mother died in 1849 and she was buried on 2 June 1849 in Lambourn.

In the 1851 census Lucy, now a scholar aged 6, is living with her aunt Jane Cooke who runs a successful Milliners and Dressmaking business in Northbrook Street, employing 4 apprentices and a general servant.

Lucy died at the young age of 14 years on 6 July 1859 and she was buried in a consecrated private grave on 9 July.

Mrs. P. Code LN(A) 23 Page 112

Sources: Birth Index 4Q 1844; Births & Christenings 1538-1975; Select Marriages of her parents; Death Index of her mother 2Q 1849; 1851 census; 1852 Slater’s Directory of Berkshire; BBI 9/7/1859.

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