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Buried:	23/03/1861

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Cemetery accounts

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Name at death	Sarah Soper
Date of burial	25/03/1861
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated Ground - Common Interment
By whom buried	Rev'd. J.L. Randall
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 55

Accounts Entry for Sarah Soper
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Reproduced with kind permission

Biographical Information

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Sarah Soper

Sarah Soper

1829-1861

Sarah Prouting was born in Snelsmore she was baptised on the 18^th October 1829 in Chieveley Berkshire and was the daughter of John & Eliza Prouting (nee Williams) who were married on the 5^th March 1825 in St Andrew’s Church Boxford. (John’s surname recorded as Prowting) John was a Carpenter.

In 1851 Sarah was working as a Servant in the household of William Keens (Tailor & Draper) in Northbrook Street Newbury. She married George Soper (a Tailor) in 1852 in Newbury. George was a widower and had two children Lucy Ann aged 6 and Charlotte aged 7.

Sarah & George had the following children:

Sarah 1852

Elizabeth 1854

Edward John 1856

Albert 1857 (died aged 4 in 1862 he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 28^th May)

Walter 1860 (died in 1860 he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 16^th March)

Harriet 1861-1861

Sarah died aged 31 in 1861 she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 25^th March.

Baby Harriet died less than three weeks after her mother she was laid to rest on the 15th April 1861 at St Mary the Virgin Chieveley. (Both Sarah aged 8 and Harriet aged 2 months had gone to stay with their grandparents John & Eliza Prouting in Chieveley after their mother’s death.).

George and his children, Charlotte, Elizabeth Edward and Albert were living in Caroline Place Newbury in 1861. In 1871 George was living in Hazell’s Yard. He died aged 58 in 1880 and was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 18^th December.

Sarah Soper and Soper family

George Soper (1822 — 1880)
Ann Soper (1815 — 1851)
Walter Soper (1860 — 1860)
Sarah Soper (1829 — 1861)
Albert Soper (1858 — 1862)

George Soper was born circa 1822 in Newbury the son of Benjamin & Charlotte (nee Titcomb) Soper. After the death of Benjamin in September 1828 Charlotte remarried on 22 May 1831 at St Mary in Thatcham to Thomas Naylor. Charlotte was buried at Newtown Road Cemetery on 5 November 1872.
In the 1841 census George was recorded living in West Mills in Newbury with his mother Charlotte & stepfather Thomas Naylor, step sister Martha & a servant Ann Cumbler. Thomas was recorded as a paper maker & George a tailor.

George married Ann Cumbler on 2 December 1844 at St Nicolas in Newbury. Ann was baptized 15 October 1815 at St Mary in Kingsclere the daughter of William & Anne.
In the 1851 census George & Ann with daughters Lucy aged five & Charlotte aged three were recorded living in Kimbers Yard in Newbury, with George a tailor journeyman.
Ann died very soon after the census and was buried 26 May 1851 at Newtown Road Cemetery.
George remarried in Q3 1852 in Newbury district to Sarah Prouting. Sarah was baptized 18 October 1829 at St Mary the Virgin in Chieveley to John & Eliza. In the 1851 census she was recorded as a general servant lodging in Northbrook Street in Newbury & the head of the house was a master tailor.
George & Sarah had a son Walter in 1960. He died March 1860 & was buried 16 March 1860 at Newtown Road Cemetery.
In March 1861 George's wife Sarah died and was buried 25 March 1861 at Newtown Road Cemetery. A few days later on 7 April 1861 in the 1861 census George with daughters Charlotte aged thirteen & Elizabeth aged six and sons Edward aged five & Albert aged three were recorded living in Staples Yard, Caroline Place in Newbury, with George a tailor & daughter Charlotte a servant.
George & Sarah's son Albert died May 1862 & was buried 28 May 1862 at Newtown Road Cemetery aged four.
In the 1871 census George & his son Edward were lodging in Bartholmew Street in Newbury with George a journeyman tailor & Edward an errand boy. George died 15 December 1880 at the Union Workhouse in Newbury and was buried 18 December 1880 at Newtown Road Cemetery. A short announcement appeared in the Newbury Weekly News of 23 December 1880.

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