Henry Haines 1859-1859

Author: gambles
Date published: 28/04/2025
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Henry Haines

1859-1859

Henry was born in Newbury, Berkshire the son of James and Anne Haines (nee Hayes). Henry died soon after he was born (both birth and death registered in the June quarter). He was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 8th April 1859.

Henry’s family:

His father James was born c1818 in Wallingford, Berkshire. He married Henry’s mother in 1851

Marriage details:

Place: St Nicolas Church Newbury

Date: 23rd November 1851

Groom: James Haines, widower, occupation, Licensed Hawker, abode, Newbury

Bride: Anne Hayes, full age, spinster, abode, Newbury

Fathers: James Haines, a Gardener and Henry Hayes, a Farmer’s Bailiff

Witnesses: George Stillman and Edward Stillman

James and Anne also had the following children:

 Harriet Ann, born 1856

Jane, born c1859

The 1861 census records James Hains (42) as a Licensed Hawker, living in Chubbs Yard, Bartholomew Street, Newbury with his daughters Harriet (6) and Jane (4)

The 1871 census records James Haines (50), a widower, as a Hawker, living in Grove Street, Wantage, Berkshire. Also living with him was a widowed Housekeeper, Mary Cross (39) and her children, George (3) and Mary (7 months) (Mary Cross was born Mary Haines Cross in 1870, so probably the biological daughter of James Haines)

The 1881 census records James (64) as a Licenced Hawker, living in Grove Street, Wantage, Berkshire, with his wife Mary (57), a Washerwoman, his daughter Mary (10) and his stepson George Cross (21), an Ostler. (surname mistakenly recorded as Harris on ancestry) (No marriage found for James and Mary yet)

The 1891 census records James (80) a widower, formerly a General Labourer, as an inmate in the Wantage Workhouse.

He died aged 81 in 1892, in Wantage.

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