Personal Details of Thomas Colstone
Jump to: Birth Death Burial Cemetery Accounts Pictures Biographies
| Born: | |
| Died: | |
| Buried: | 28/09/1859 |
Listed below are all the details we have been able to find so far on Thomas Colstone.
As far as we are aware, all the information is correct. However, sometimes transcriptions can lead to errors being made. If you find any errors or omissions, please let us know and we will endeavour to get them corrected as soon as possible.
If you have any further information on Thomas Colstone, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Birth
There is no information in our database regarding the birth of Thomas Colstone.
Can you help us? If so, please contact our History Research Group.
Death
| Name at death | Thomas Colstone, possibly Coster or Coulstone | ||||||||||
| Date of death | |||||||||||
| Age at death | 70 | ||||||||||
| Gender at Death | Male | ||||||||||
| Cause of Death | |||||||||||
| Place of Death | |||||||||||
| Usual Address | |||||||||||
| Transcriber's comments | The accounts appear to show Coster or Coxter; St Nicholas burial records for the same day are uncertain and give 2 names Coulstone and Coster for a Thomas, age 70; Free BMD gives death Thomas Colstone Sept q 2c 1859 Newbury; In cases of doubt we choose the death cert (free BMD) record. | ||||||||||
| GRO certificate index |
|
||||||||||
| Information Sources |
Burial Register
There is no burial register information available for Thomas Colstone.
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.
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 Coxter |
| Date of burial | 28/09/1859 |
| Whence brought | Newbury |
| Where & how buried | Consecrated Ground - Common Interment |
| By whom buried | Rev'd. W.F. Norris |
| Account Entry | Book 1 - Page 48 |
| Transcription comments | Unsure of Surname |
Accounts Entry for Thomas Colstone
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission
Accounts Entry for Thomas Colstone
Pictures and photographs
The pictures below are all linked with Thomas Colstone.
Click an image to show an enlarged version of it.
death cert Thomas Colstone
©
death cert Thomas Colstone
©
Biographical Information
The articles below contain information about Thomas Colstone.
Thomas Colstone/Coster c1789-1859
Thomas Colstone/Coster
c1789-1859
According to the 1851 census Thomas was born in Wiltshire. He married Elizabeth Pearce on the 21st October 1827 at St Mary Thatcham (surname spelt Colestone).
Thomas and Elizabeth had the following children baptised at St Nicolas Church Newbury:
George Colstone baptised 2nd March 1828 father recorded as a Labourer
Lucy Ann Colston baptised 16th August 1829 father recorded as a Labourer
Mary Jane Coulstone baptised 25th December 1831 father recorded as a Labourer
Elizabeth Colston baptised 18th May 1834 father recorded as a Cordwainer
Susan Hannah Coleston baptised 3rd July 1836 father recorded as a Shoemaker
William Coulston baptised 12th November 1837 father recorded as a Shoemaker
Sarah born c1839 (no birth or baptism found yet!)
Their son George died aged 6 months in 1828, he was buried (as George Coster) on the 20th August at St Mary the Virgin, Speen.
The 1841 census records Thomas (45), as a Shoemaker, living in Mary Hill, Newbury with his wife Elizabeth (30) and their children Lucy (12), Mary (9), Elizabeth (7), Susan (5), William (4) and Sarah (2). (Family surname recorded as Carter on ancestry).
Elizabeth died aged 33 in 1841, she was buried on the 3rd January 1842 at St Nicolas Newbury. (Surname recorded as Coster). Their daughter Susan (recorded as Susanna Coster) died aged 5 later that year, she was buried on the 24th November at St Nicolas Newbury.
The 1851 census records Thomas (59) as a List Shoemaker living in Bradley Yard, Mary Hill, Newbury with his children Lucy (20), a Milliner, Mary (18), a Shoe Binder, Elizabeth (14), a Servant, William (12), an Apprentice and Sarah (10). (Surname recorded as Coster).
Thomas died aged 70 on the 25th September 1859, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 28th September.
Author: C Gambles
©
*The FNRC believe that the certificates published on this page have been added in compliance with the rules laid down by the General Register Office (GRO). Click here for more information.
If you believe that we may have inadvertently breached the privacy of a living person by publishing any document, please contact us so we can immediately remove the certificate and investigate further.
Thank you.
FNRC.
© 2010-2023. Friends of Newtown Road Cemetery, unless otherwise stated.
Web site designed by Paul Thompson
The Friends of Newtown Road Cemetery is a not-for-profit organisation that works in association with Newbury Town Council to look after and maintain Newtown Road Cemetery for the benefit of the people of Newbury.