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Buried:	03/11/1865

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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.

Memorial Details

	From top of headstone: Sacred to the memory of/ Revd. William Wilson/ for twenty years Minister of the Presbyterian Chapel, Newbury./ Born may 4th 1799/ died March 29th 1850. "O place of graves, the first-loved form receive/ That weeping friends within thy precincts leave/ No holier dust shall ever mingle here/ Than he who earliest claim the mourner's tear/ Long o'er his tomb shall drooping pity bend/ And mourn the brother, pastor, guide and friend/ Mourn for the wit, the wisdom and the worth/ Which rest with him beneath this bed of earth/ Rich in the gifts of Genius - richer still/ in Christian graces guiding all his will/ Of mind serene - of temper kind and mild/ in suffering patient - quiet as a child/ in peace he lived peace he found in death/ For Hope and faith inspired his parting breath/ but not confined to this sepulchral sod/ his spirit springs to meet his father - God/ For him a crown = a wreath immortal blooms/ And sheds a glory o'er this place of tombs." South side of copestone: Mary Chesson Wilson/ died Oct.31st 1865/ aged 65 years./ North side of copestone: Ursula Parr Wilson/ died Oct. 18th 1871/ aged 81 years

Name on Memorial	Mary Chesson WILSON
Date of death	31/10/1865
Age	65
Gender	Female

Memorial Type	Headstone and copestone
Construction Material	Sandstone with engraved letters
Condition of memorial	Poor, eulogy on headstone unreadable
Pattison Location Code	W104
Others named on memorial
Revd. William WILSON
Ursula Parr WILSON

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	Mary C. Wilson
Date of burial	03/11/1865
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Unconsecrated - Brick Grave
By whom buried	Rev'd. E. Kell
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 80

Accounts Entry for Mary Chesson Wilson
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Mary Chesson Wilson.

Mary Chesson Wilson

MARY CHESSON WILSON

She was the youngest daughter of William and Ursula Wilson (née Welsford). From the registration record at the Presbyterian Meeting House, Dartmouth, she was born on 28 October 1800 and baptised on 13 September 1801:

Her godmother was Mary Chesson Welsford (previous married name Hills) who was the wife of her uncle Roger Welsford, brother of her mother Ursula. Her godmother left her a legacy of £800 in her will of June 1806 which she claimed in 1834 following the death of her uncle in August 1833 in Brighton, Sussex, her godmother having died in June 1810.

Research to date has been unable to find her in the 1841 census.

The next record is the 1851 census and she was visiting the family of Rev. John Owen (born in Taunton), Presbyterian Minister at the Lydgate Chapel, New Mill, Wooldale, in the district of Huddersfield. The chapel was formerly Presbyterian before becoming Unitarian.

1861 Census - aged 60 years, unmarried, she was living with her 70-year-old spinster sister Ursula at 32 West Street, Newbury. They were both fundholders. Esther Ramsden, aged 13, was employed as a general servant.

She died at home on 31 October 1865, aged 65 years, and she was buried in the family grave beside her brother Rev. William Wilson. The Rev. Edmund Kell, Unitarian minister, officiated at her interment.

Mrs. P. Code W104, page 19

Sources: Register of Births & Baptisms, Presbyterian Meeting House, Dartmouth; London Gazette dated 18/2/1834 re will of Mary Chesson Hills; 1851 and 1861 census; Death Index 4Q 1865; E & W Probate.

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