Personal information about James Farr

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Burial Information

Name on burial register:
    James Farr
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Age at death:
    72
Date of burial:
    09 April 1870
Abode at death:
(according to burial register)
    Newbury
Burial register information:
   
Book number: 1868
Page number: 029
Record number: 2627
Official at burial:
    The Rev'd. E R Dowdeswell Curate of Newbury.
     
Source of information:
   Burial Register

Memorial Details

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Obituaries and Newspaper announcements

James Farr Marriage
Article source:    Reading Mercury 2nd, 9th April 1870
Date of source:    02 April 1870
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The following was reported in the Reading Mercury on the 2nd April 1870:

ST NICOLAS CHURCH. – A somewhat singular wedding took place in the Church at about 10 o’clock on Monday morning. James Farr, an invalid, 62 years of age, living in Back-lane, was united in wedlock with Ann Bailey, a woman about 20 years his junior. The most singular fact, however, associated with the event was that Farr was wheeled through the streets to and from the Church, by the bride, and it was only with the assistance and that of other persons in the Church, that he could make his way up the nave. The Rev. C. Boyd, senior curate, was the officiating clergyman.

James died aged 62, on the 5th April 1870, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 9th April.

The following was reported in the Reading Mercury on the 9th April 1870:

The married life of James Farr, of Back-lane, whose somewhat singular wedding was noticed last week, has proved very brief, his death having taken place on Tuesday. The parties had lived together previously, and Farr being very infirm, in fact quite bed-ridden, desired to be married to the woman, who wheeled him to Church and home again.
This obituary entry is awaiting verification.
 
 

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James Farr c1807-1870

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