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Buried:	24/04/1861

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Birth

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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	Benjamin Jessett
Date of burial	24/04/1861
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 Benjamin Jessett
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Benjamin Jessett.

Benjamin Jessett

Benjamin Jessett

c1787-1861

Benjamin was born in Eddington Berkshire he was baptised on the 28^th August 1787 in Hungerford Berkshire and was the son of Benjamin and Sarah Jessett (nee Beckingham) who were married on the 25^th September 1774 in Ramsbury Wiltshire. Benjamin’s father was recorded as a Labourer on the marriage record and his mother Sarah was recorded as being from the parish of Baydon Wiltshire.

Benjamin and Sarah also had the following children (all baptised in Hungerford):

Elinor baptised 27/11/1774

Mary baptised 18/2/1776

Thomas baptised 19/7/1778

William baptised 6/10/1780

Sarah baptised 12/11/1783

John baptised 9/10/1785

Elizabeth baptised 27/6/1790

Jonathan baptised 9/6/1793

Joseph baptised 5/6/1796 died 16/10/1797

James baptised 4/3/1798

Benjamin married Ann Birch on the 13^th November 1808 at St Mary the Virgin Speen Newbury (his surname was mistakenly transcribed as Gissett)

Benjamin (50), Labourer, and Ann (60) were recorded living in Speenhamland Newbury in 1841.

Ann died aged 66 in 1843 she was buried on the 29^th November at St Mary the Virgin Speen Berkshire.

The 1851 census records Benjamin (66), as a widower, working as a Porter at the Pelican Hotel Speenhamland Newbury

In the1861 census Benjamin (72), was recorded as B Jessett, widower, Post Boy at Hotel, living in the Newbury Workhouse.

Benjamin died aged 71 in 1861 he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 24^th April

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