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Personal Details of Jacob Harris

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Buried:	14/10/1862

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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	Jacob Harris
Date of burial	14/10/1862
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Unconsecrated - Common Interment
By whom buried	George Hunter
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 62

Accounts Entry for Jacob Harris
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

Jacob Harris

Source:	https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/
Article date:	13/05/1863
Copyright:	as above
Transciption:	JACOB HARRIS Probate: 13^th May 1863 Effects: Under £200 The Will of Jacob Harris late of Newbury in the County of Berks Shopkeeper deceased who died 11^th October 1862 at Newbury aforesaid was proved at the Principal Registry by the oath of Mary Ann Harris of Newbury aforesaid Widow the Relict the sole Execuitrix
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Jacob Harris.

Jacob Harris

Jacob Harris

c1816-1862

Jacob was born in Hampshire he was baptised on the 23^rd June 1816 in Faccombe and was the son of William and Hannah Harris.

In 1841 Jacob was working as an agricultural labourer in Ashmansworth Hampshire. He married Mary Ann Stagg (born c1817 in East Woodhay) in 1848 (the marriage was registered in Kingsclere).

In the 1851 census Jacob was recorded as a Greengrocer living in Bartholomew Street Newbury with his wife Mary Ann. They were still living in Bartholomew Street in 1861 Jacob was recorded in this census as a Grocer.

Jacob died aged 47 on the 11^th October 1862 he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 14^th October.

Mary Ann remarried in 1863 in Newbury her 2^nd husband was Elijah Smith, a widower. (1^st wife was Ann Newbury (married 1837 in Speen) she died in 1862).

Elijah and Mary Ann were recorded living in Bartholomew Street Newbury in 1871 and 1881 and Elijah was recorded as a Grocer/Provisions Dealer.

Mary Ann died aged 66 in 1882 in Newbury and Elijah died aged 86 in 1890 in Newbury.

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