Personal information about Charles Hemsted

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Burial Information

Name on burial register:
    Charles Hemsted
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Age at death:
    36
Date of burial:
    09 August 1870
Abode at death:
(according to burial register)
    Newbury
Burial register information:
   
Book number: 1868
Page number: 037
Record number: 2690
Official at burial:
    The Rev'd. Charles Grinstead,Curate of Newbury.
     
Source of information:
   Burial Register
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Memorial Details

Name on Memorial:
   Charles  HEMSTED
Date of death:
   03 August 1870
Age at death:
   36
Gender:
   Male
   
Memorial type:
   Vault covered with a large flat stone flush with ground.
Construction Material:
   Sandstone Engraved
     
Inscription:
   Flat stone, top of vault: In Memory of / Eliza, Relict of the Rev. May Ellis / Rector of Ickford, Bucks. / died May 6th.1864 aged 56 years / Also Sarah, Relict of Rev. John Charles Townsend / of Newbury, Berks. / died May 10th. 1868 aged 88 years. / Also Charlotte, wife of / Lieutenant Edward Hemsted / 109th. Regiment / died December 22nd. 1868 aged 24 years. / Also of Ellen, wife of / John Whitelock, Esq. / of Owosso, Michigan, U.S.A. / died March 14th. 1870 aged 39 years. / Also Charles Hemsted / of Newbury. / died August 3rd. 1870 aged 36 years. / Also Anne, wife of Stephen Hemsted, Esq., / of Newbury, Berks. / died July 28th. 1876 aged 70 years / and was buried next to this vault on the North side. / Also Anne, wife of W.S.H. May, Esq., died March 1st.1883 aged 37 years. / Buried at Brockley Cemetery / Also Stephen Hemsted of Newbury / died April 10th. 1885 aged 82 years. / Buried on the North side of this vault. //
     
Condition of memorial:
   Good but easily covered by grass. Lichen over MI in places but can be read.
Pattison location code:
   ChNW12 page 93
Other Notes:
     The Townsend/Ellis/Hemsted family lived in Bartholomew St., Newbury. See website for obits of Eliza Ellis & her mother, Sarah Townsend. Both wives of vicars. Eliza was the wife of the Vicar of Ickford, Bucks., Rev William May Ellis, MA Christ Church, Oxon, who predeceased her. Charlotte Hemsted was the daughter of Henry Bursey, surgeon & general practitioner in Southwark, (buried elsewhere in NRC but grave not recorded by Mrs P.), & first wife of Lt. Col. Edward Hemsted, son of Anne & Stephen Hemsted snr., Edward is buried in St Peter's, Drayton nr Abingdon. Ellen Whitelock was daughter of Stephen & Anne Hemsted. Charles Hemsted, Ellen's brother, was a Midshipman, RN & 2nd Mate, Merchant Navy. Anne Hemsted, mother to Ellen & Charles, was the d. of Sarah & J.C.Townsend and wife of Stephen MA Oxon, MRCS, JP, surgeon, of Bartholomew St., Newbury, left £9000 to son Stephen Hemsted. She bequeathed land for the building of a meeting room for St George's, Wash Common (see FNRC website). Stephen Hemsted snr. graduated from St John's College, Oxon in 1852. Both Anne & Stephen are buried by the North side of the vault. Anne May was d. of Anne & Stephen Townsend, wife of William Simonds Higgs May, farmer, landowner & gentleman of Reading. Sources: Mrs Pattinson's records were corrected or confirmed by further inspection of the grave & by using records on ancestry uk. The place name Owosso was confirmed using Google. Anne May's burial is recorded at Brockley Cemetery https://www.deceasedonline.com/servlet/GSDOSearch.
     
Date monument recorded:
   01 November 2017
Monument recorder:
   EAC
 
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Other people list on this memorial

Eliza ELLIS
Sarah TOWNSEND
Charlotte HEMSTED
Ellen WHITELOCK
Anne HEMSTED
Anne MAY
Stephen HEMSTED

 

 

Obituaries and Newspaper announcements

Charles Hemsted
Article source:    Berkshire Chronicle and Reading Mercury - Saturday 6th August 1870
Date of source:    06 August 1870
Copyright:    © Berkshire Chronicle and ReadingMercury

Transcription:

  
CHARLES HEMSTED

August 3, at Newbury, Charles, second son of Stephen Hemsted, Esq., aged 36. 
This obituary entry is awaiting verification.
 
 

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