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Personal Details of John Joseph Wilton

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Buried:	14/01/1865

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Burial Register

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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	John J. Wilton
Date of burial	14/01/1865
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated - Common Interment
By whom buried	Rev'd. J.L. Randall
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 75

Accounts Entry for John Joseph Wilton
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Biographical Information

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John Joseph Wilton c1791-1865

John Joseph Wilton

c1791-1865

John was a Fishmonger ( recorded as a Fish and Fruit Dealer in 1861). He was baptised as Joseph in Owslebury Hampshire in 1795 the son of Rebec Wilton.

John married (as John) Rebecca Sims (baptised in Ringwood Hampshire in1806 daughter of John Sims) in 1823 in Ringwood Hampshire.

Known children of John and Rebecca were:

Elizabeth baptised on the 26^th July 1826 at St Nicolas Church Newbury

Henry baptised 30^th September 1827 in Oxford

Lydia baptised 29^th March 1835 in Winchester

The 1841 census records John (49) living in Penny Farthing Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire with Rebecca (35) and their children Elizabeth (14), Henry (13) and Lydia (6).

The 1851 census records John (59) (recorded as Joseph), Rebecca (45) and Lydia (16) living in Dredge’s Yard, Newbury.

In 1861 John (69) (again recorded as Joseph, surname recorded as Welton on ancestry) and Rebecca (55), living in Northbrook Street, Newbury.

John Joseph died aged 74 in 1865 he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 14^th January.

Rebecca remarried the following year, her 2^nd husband was a widower, Thomas Harris, a Gardener.

Thomas died aged 78 on the 4^th October 1870, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 6^th October..

In 1871 Rebecca (65) was recorded living on Parish Relief in Dredge’s Yard Newbury.

She moved to Maidenhead (possibly to live with her married daughter Elizabeth Crosswell and her family) and died aged 77 in 1881, she was buried on the 3^rd March at St Luke Maidenhead.

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