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Personal Details of Elizabeth Holley

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Born:
Died:	19/02/1867
Buried:	26/02/1867

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Burial Register

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Memorial Details

	From top of headstone: Sacred to the Memory of/ Elizabeth HOLBEY/ who died July 19th 1867/ aged 89 years/ "May death conclude my toils and tears./ My Death through Jesus be my friend./ May Death be Life when life shall end"/ Also Harriet STEVENS/ daughter of the above/ who died May 31st 1880 aged 66 years. Footstone: EH 1867/HS1880

Name on Memorial	elizabeth Holley
Date of death	19/07/1867
Age	89
Gender	Female

Memorial Type	Headstone and footstone
Construction Material	Limestone
Condition of memorial	Good, engraved letters
Pattison Location Code	LN(A)19
Others named on memorial
Harriet Stevens

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	Elizabeth Holly
Date of burial	26/02/1867
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated - Private Grave
By whom buried	Rev'd. C.H. Robarts
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 89

Accounts Entry for Elizabeth Holley
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Biographical Information

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Elizabeth Holley c1782-1867

Elizabeth Holley

c1782-1867

Elizabeth was baptised on the 7^th July 1782 in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, the daughter of Charles and Melior Fletcher (nee Sevile) who were married on the 8^th August 1771, in Heytesbury. (Surname recorded as Flatcher at time of marriage)

Charles and Melior also had the following children baptised in Heytesbury:

Henry, baptised 7^th June 1772

Sarah, baptised 6^th November 1774

Charles, baptised 13^th December 1778

Elizabeth married George Hunt Holley on the 1^st February 1812 in Alverstoke, Hampshire.

They had the following children:

Harriet Hunt, baptised 19^th December 1812 in Heytesbury

Mary Ann, baptised 15^th November 1816, at St Nicolas, Newbury

William, baptised 25^th October 1819, at St Nicolas, Newbury

George, (aka Charles) baptised 18^th November 1822, at St Nicolas, Newbury

John, baptised 25^th September 1825, at St Nicolas, Newbury

Their son George died aged 2years 6 months, in 1825. He was buried (as Charles) on 2^nd May 1825, at St Nicolas, Newbury.

The 1841 census records George (55) as a Grocer’s Assistant, living in Northbrook Street, Newbury, with Elizabeth (60) and their children, Mary Ann (20) and John (15).

In 1851 George (69) was recorded as a Tallow Chandler, living in Jack of Newbury Yard, Newbury, with Elizabeth (71) and their daughter Mary Ann (33)

By 1852 Elizabeth’s husband George (70) was a Greenwich Pensioner. He died in 1865, aged 82, in Greenwich.

Elizabeth died aged 89 in 1867. She was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 26^th February.

Elizabeth’s widowed daughter Harriet Stevens was laid to rest with Elizabeth on the 2^nd June 1880. Her son-in-law George Purdue, (1^st husband of her daughter Mary Ann), is buried in the grave next to them.

Mrs P Page 111 Code LN(A) 19

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