Personal information about Catherine Willis

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Memorial Details

Name on Memorial:
   Catherine WILLIS
Date of death:
   26 August 1852
Age at death:
   88
Gender:
   Female
   
Memorial type:
   Headstone and footstone
Construction Material:
   Limestone with engraved letters
     
Inscription:
   From top of headstone: In Memory of/ Catherine Willis/ who died August 26th 1852/ in her88th. Year./ Also of the / Revd. George Sextus Willis/ grandson of the above/ who died Oct. 9th. 1853/ aged 26 years./ "He was a man among the few. Firm on Religious side/ And all his strength from Scripture drew to hourly use applied". Footstone: H.W. 1852/ G.W. 1855
     
Condition of memorial:
   Fair
Pattison location code:
   W155
Other Notes:
    
     
Date monument recorded:
   21 May 2013
Monument recorder:
   DL
 
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Revd. George Sextus WILLIS

Cemetery Accounts Record

The information below is derived from the Newbury Cemetery company Accounts ledgers.

Name: Catherine Willis
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Newbury Cemetery Company Accounts Books.
Book: 1 Page: 9
©Newbury Town Council.
Originals held at the Berkshire Record Office.
Date of Burial: 01 September 1852
Whence Brought: Newbury
Where and how Buried: Consecrated Ground - Reserved Grave
By Whom Buried: Rev'd. H.T. White
Accounts Remarks:
   
Accounts Book Number: 1
Accounts Book Page Number: 9
   
Recorder's Comments:

 

 

Obituaries and Newspaper announcements

Catherine Willis
Article source:    Berkshire Chronicle
Date of source:    04 September 1852
Copyright:    © Berkshire Chronicle

Transcription:

  
CATHERINE WILLIS

Longevity.—ln our obituary this week will be found the demise of Catharine Willis, the mother of Mr. Willis, of this town, aged 88 years (sic). She was the last of a family of six, whose united ages amount to 540 years. Catharine Willis died in her 88th, her mother in her 95th, her father in his 82nd, her sister in her 90th, her father's sister in her 90th, and another sister in her 88th year. 

Died 26th August, 1852: Buried 1st September, 1852
 
MRS. P. Page 25, W.155
(Buried with George Sextus Willis her grandson)
This obituary entry is awaiting verification.
 
 
Catherine Willis
Article source:    Berkshire Chronicle and Reading Mercury
Date of source:    04 September 1852
Copyright:    © Berkshire Chronicle and Reading Mercury

Transcription:

  

CATHERINE WILLIS

August 26, at her son's residence, in Newbury, Catherine relict of the late M. Willis, Esq., in her 88th year, being the last of six of a family whose united ages amounted to 540 years. 
This obituary entry is awaiting verification.
 
 

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