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Personal Details of Mary Young

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Buried:	25/09/1867

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

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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	Mary Young
Date of burial	25/09/1867
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated - Common interment
By whom buried	Rev'd. W.T. Bettison
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 92

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

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Mary Young.

Mary Young c1814-1867

Mary Young

c1814-1867

Mary was baptised (as Mary Ann) on the 21^st August 1814 at St Nicolas Church Newbury the daughter of John (a Blacksmith) and Elizabeth Wiggins. (The family were living in Bartholomew Street, Newbury).

The 1815 census of Newbury records Mary Ann (1) living on the west side of Newtown Lane, Newbury with her parents John Wiggins (37), a Smith and Elizabeth (36) and her siblings, John (12) and Elizabeth (10).

She gave birth to a daughter circa 1837, she was baptised Elizabeth in 1837 in Greenham.

Mary married James Young on the 11^th August 1839 in Thatcham Berkshire. (Fathers recorded as Daniel Young and John Wiggins)

In 1841 Mary (25), was living in Stroud Green, Thatcham with her husband James (30), a Shoemaker and their children Elizabeth (4) and Thomas (7 months).

Thomas died aged 1+ in 1842, he was buried on the 29^th December at St Mary Greenham

Mary and James had two more children, Charles Robert born c1845 and James born in 1847.

Mary’s husband James died in 1848 (the GRO website has his age at death recorded as 34, the NBI records his age at death as 40), he was buried on the 6^th January at St Mary Greenham.

The 1851 census records Mary (36), living at Golding’s Yard, Greenham with her children, Elizabeth (14), Charles (6) and James (4). Also recorded living in the household were Mary’s mother Elizabeth Wiggins (73), a Pauper and her sister Ann Wiggins (20).

In 1861 Mary (46) was recorded as a Charwoman, living in Old Road, Newbury.

She died aged 53 in 1867 and was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 25^th September.

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