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Personal Details of Caroline Brown

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Buried:	02/08/1861

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

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.

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Birth

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Death

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Burial Register

There is no burial register information available for Caroline Brown.
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	Caroline Brown
Date of burial	02/08/1861
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated Ground - Private Grave
By whom buried	Rev'd. C. Knowles
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 57
Transcription comments	FreeBMD lists Forename as Catherine

Accounts Entry for Caroline Brown
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Caroline Brown.

Catherine/Caroline Brown

Catherine/Caroline Brown

c1768-1861

Catherine was born in Newbury she was baptised on the 29^th November 1768 at St Nicolas Church Newbury the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Brown.

Her father Joseph died aged 77 in 1815 he was buried on the 12^th February at St Mary the Virgin Speen.

In the 1815 census of Newbury Catherine was recorded as a Pastry Cook, living on the west side of Northbrook Street Newbury with her mother Elizabeth (74), her sister Mary and a Harriet Parker (20) (possibly her niece).

Her mother Elizabeth died aged 76 in 1817 she was laid to rest on the 7^th September at St Mary the Virgin Speen.

Catherine never married. In the 1841, 1851 and 1861 census records Catherine was recorded as an Almswoman living at 8 Raymonds Almshouses Newbury. In 1841 her sister Mary living with her. Both the 1851 and 1861 census records record her sisters Mary Brown and Eleanor Parker living with her.

Her sister Eleanor died aged 89 in 1861 she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 12^th April

Catherine died aged 92 in 1861 she was laid to rest in a private grave in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 2^nd August. She has been mistakenly recorded as Caroline in the NRC Company Accounts Ledgers. (Death registered as Catherine on both the GRO and FreeBMD websites)

Her sister Mary died aged 90 in 1864 she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 1^st February

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