Personal information about Edward Sargent

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Burial Information

Name on burial register:
   Edward Sargent
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Age at death:
   72
Date of burial:
   01 August 1903
Abode at death:
(according to burial register)
   The Hollies, Greenham Road, Newbury
Burial register information:
  
Book number: 1899
Page number: 069
Record number: 7750
Official at burial:
   George J Knight
     
Source of information:
  Burial Register
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Memorial Details

  Edward SARGENT
  29 July 1903
  72
  Male
   
  4 Kerbstones
  Sandstone or granite not limestone Lead letters
   
  North East Kerbstone: outer slope: In Loving Memory of Harriet Sargent, died Jan. 30th. 1893 aged 84 years. // North West Kerbstone: outer slope: Also Sophia Sargent , died Aug. 21st. 1899 aged 66 years. / South West Kerbstone: outer slope: Also Edward Sargent, died July 29th. 1903, aged 72 years. South East Kerbstone: outer slope: Also Harriett Sargent, died July 14th. 1926 aged 66 years. //
   
  Overgrown, hardly visible
  P(B)1
    Harriet Giles married Joseph Sargent in 1829. They had a son, Edward (see below), in 1831 & daughter, Sarah, in 1837. Harriett was widowed in 1839. They were living at 110, Northbrook St, Newbury in the 1841 census. Harriett was working as a seamstress at 38, Jack Lane off Northbrook St by 1851, but by 1861 had move in with her daughter Sarah & husband who ran the Public House & Grocery in Wantage Rd, Winterbourne. In following census records, after Sarah's death, she moved to the Almshouses in West Mills. Cont'd below...... Edward and family are buried with his mother, Harriet, above. Before marriage, Edward lived with his Uncle Benjamin Sargent, a bricklayer in Camberwell & followed the same trade. He married Peasemore girl, Sophia (maiden name not found) in 1853 & they lived in Shoreditch where two of their 3 children were born. Edward briefly returned to Newbury where his daughter was born, living at Jack o'Newbury cafe in Jack St.(1861) & working as a beer seller as well as a bricklayer. The family was again living in Shoreditch by the 1871 census with Edward working as a bricklayer. They had moved back to Newbury by 1881 to 1, Northcroft Terrace, Northcroft Lane with Edward employing 4 men. His son, also a bricklayer, lived next door in no. 2 after he married Fanny Dore. By Sophia's death in 1899 she & Edward senior had moved to The Hollies, 47, Greenham Rd where Edward also died, leaving £860 to his son, Edward, a builder. Harriett lived with her parents until their deaths, after which she is found living on her own means and doing domestic help at Raymonds Cottages (almshouses, Newtown Rd.) She died at the Infirmary, 214 Newtown Rd & was buried with her parents & Grandmother. Benjamin Sargent, cousin to Edward, is also buried in a family tomb in NRC (location not recorded) Benjamin became the Borough Surveyor for Newbury (see Obit in NRC Bur Recds.) Sources: NRC Bur Recds, NWN Obit, Ancestry records.
   
  01 August 2020
  Elizabeth
 
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Harriett SARGENT
Sophia SARGENT
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