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Buried:	24/05/1861

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Burial Register

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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	Elizabeth Showell
Date of burial	24/05/1861
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 Elizabeth Showell
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Reproduced with kind permission

Biographical Information

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Elizabeth Showell

Elizabeth Showell

1807-1861

Elizabeth was born on the 24^th May 1807 in Hampshire she was baptised on the 20^th September 1807 in Botley Hampshire and was the daughter of George and Hannah Withers (nee Witcher) who were married in East Dean Hampshire in 1801 (Hannah’s surname spelt Whitcher). George was a Turner (recorded as such on his daughter Elizabeth’s marriage certificate in 1845)

George and Hannah also had the following children (all baptised in Botley):

Eliza baptised 1805

John baptised 1809

Ann baptised 1810

Henry baptised 1813

Elizabeth was married twice her 1^st husband was Thomas Moore they were married at St Mary’s Church Greenham Berkshire on the 1^st September 1834. Her 2^nd husband was Thomas Showell they were married on the 11^th May 1845 at St John the Evangelist Lambeth Surrey.

The 1851 census records Thomas (38) as a Porter living with his wife Elizabeth (recorded as Eliza (38) at 3 Willow Row Old Street St Luke’s Middlesex. By 1861 the couple had moved to Newbury (Cheap Street) Thomas was working as a Carman.

Elizabeth died aged 54 in 1861 she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 24^th May

Thomas remarried in 1863 in Newbury his 2^nd wife was Ann Stanford (a widow, nee Cox).

The 1871 census records Thomas and Ann living in Greenham Street, Thomas was recorded as a Carman.

Thomas died aged 65 in 1875 he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 21^st October.

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