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Personal Details of Edward Wilder

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Buried:	20/11/1861

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

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Birth

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Death

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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	Edward Wilder
Date of burial	20/11/1861
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated Ground - Common Interment
By whom buried	Rev'd. W.F. Norris
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 58

Accounts Entry for Edward Wilder
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Edward Wilder.

Edward Wilder

Edward Wilder

c1776-1861

Edward was born in Wallingford Berkshire. He married Phoebe Brunsdon (a widow, maiden name Field) on the 31^st January 1809 at St Peter Wallingford. After they were married they moved to Newbury where there daughter Phoebe was born c1809.

Edward’s wife Phoebe died aged 32 in 1814 she was buried on the 16^th March at St Nicolas Newbury. Edward remarried less than a year later his 2^nd wife was Hannah Carver (a spinster) they married on the 27^th February 1815 in Newbury, (Edward was recorded as a Publican on the marriage record).

The 1815 census of Newbury records:

Abode: west side of Cheap Street Newbury

Edward Wilder aged 40 Coach and Horses

Hannah Wilder aged 34

Phoebe Wilder aged 6 daughter of 1^st wife

In 1841 the family were living in West Mills Newbury and Edward was recorded as a Police Constable but by 1851 he was working as a Labourer.

Hannah died aged 76 in 1855 she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 25^th June.

In 1861 Edward was recorded as an Almsman (late Waterman) and was living in Childs Almshouses.

Edward died aged 85 in 1861 he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 20^th November.

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