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Personal Details of Thomas Richmond

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Buried:	04/10/1862

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

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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.

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 Rickman
Date of burial	04/10/1862
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated - Common Interment
By whom buried	Rev'd. W.F. Norris
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 62
Transcription comments	Name shows as Rickman on Accounts, but RICHMOND on FreeBMD. No one of this name in FreeBMD for 1862 (Jul-Dec)

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

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

Thomas Richmond

Source:	Reading Mercury
Article date:	04/10/1862
Copyright:	Reading Mercury
Transciption:	SUDDEN DEATH: On Thursday evening last, an inquest was held before Joseph Bunny Esq., the borough coroner, at the Magistrates Room, on view of the body of Thomas Richmond, aged 67, who died suddenly the day before. It appeared from the evidence of Eliza Taylor, who washed for the deceased and Charles Wivell, in whose employ Richmond had been for the last 10 years, that deceased’s health had been declining for some time, and while he was sitting in a chair at Taylor’s house, between five and six o’clock, on Wednesday afternoon, he was seized with illness and died quite suddenly. Verdict: “Died by natural causes by the visitation of God.”

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Thomas Richmond.

Thomas Richmond

c1799-1862

Thomas Richmond was born in Newbury he was baptised on the 21st October 1802 at St Nicolas Church Newbury and was the son of William and Sarah Richmond.

Thomas was an Agricultural Labourer. In 1841 he was living in Castle House, Shaw-cum-Donnington with his wife Lucy and their children Betsy (15), John (12), George (9), Joseph (7), Helen (6), Maria (3) and Mary (2).

Sometime between 1841 and 1851 Thomas and Lucy separated as in 1851 Thomas was recorded as unmarried, a lodger, aged 50, living in Nutley’s Yard Bartholomew Street Newbury and Lucy was recorded as married, living in Darr’s Yard Newbury working as a Brickmaker, also living in the household was a lodger, George Lawrence.

In 1861 Lucy was again recorded as married, she was still living in Darr’s Yard but was working as a Laundress, George Lawrence was still lodging with her. Thomas (63) was recorded as married and was lodging in the City Newbury.

Thomas died on the 1st October 1862 he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 4th October.

Lucy married her lodger George Lawrence on the 25th December 1862.

Note: Thomas’ surname has been mistakenly recorded as Rickman on the burial records.

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