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Personal Details of Thomas Fennell

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Buried:	09/12/1861

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

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Birth

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Death

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Burial Register

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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.

Memorial Details

	From top of headstone: Sacred to the Memory of/ Thomas Fennell/ who departed this life Dec. 4th. 1861/ in the 56th. year of his age/ "Prepare to meet thy God."

Name on Memorial	Thomas FENNELL
Date of death	04/12/1861
Age	56
Gender	Male

Memorial Type	Headstone
Construction Material	Limestone
Condition of memorial	Poor condition, covered in lichen. Engraved letters.
Pattison Location Code	LS52

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	Thomas Fennell
Date of burial	09/12/1861
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated Ground - Private Grave
By whom buried	Rev'd. J. Drew
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 58

Accounts Entry for Thomas Fennell
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

Thomas Fennell

Source:	Berkshire Chronicle
Article date:	07/12/1861
Copyright:	Berkshire Chronicle
Transciption:	THOMAS FENNELL Dec.4, at the Jack Inn, Newbury, Mr Thomas Fennell, aged 56 years, after 18 months’ painful illness.
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Thomas Fennell.

Thomas Fennell

Thomas Fennell

c1805-1861

Thomas was born in Reading Berkshire. He married Elizabeth Deeming (born c1805 in Warwickshire) on the 2^nd August 1827 at St Marylebone Westminster Middlesex.

Thomas and Elizabeth had the following children:

Ellen c1827

Elizabeth c1830

Susannah c1831 (died aged 1 in 1832)

Emma c1834

Thomas c1835 (died aged 5 in 1840)

Ann 1837

William c1840 (died aged 3 in 1844)

Jane 1841

Kate c1845

In 1841 the family were living in Kings Road, St Lawrence Reading and Thomas was working as a Waiter.

The 1851 census records the family living at Upper Hosier Street Reading, Thomas was recorded as a Grocer. By 1861 they were living in Newbury. The 1861 census records Thomas as an Innkeeper at 22 Jack of Newbury Street, (Commercial Inn Hotel).

Thomas died aged 56 on the 4^th December 1861 he was laid to rest in a private grave in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 9^th December.

In 1871 Elizabeth and her daughter Kate were still at the Hotel in Jack of Newbury Street

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