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James Ascott
c1800-1882
According to the 1851 census James was born in High Littleton, Devon. The 1861 census records his birth place as Bath Somerset.
James married Elizabeth (unknown)
James and Elizabeth had the following two daughters baptised at St Thomas a Becket, Widcombe, Somerset:
Mary Ann Ascott, born 11th May 1826, baptised 3rd September 1826, (dad, a Labourer)
Eliza Escott, baptised 8th June 1828, (dad, a Bargeman)
In 1841 James Ascott (35) was recorded as a Labourer, he was living in Kings Arms Yard, Market Place, Newbury, Berkshire, with his wife Elizabeth (35) and their daughters, Mary (15) and Eliza (13).
The 1851 census records James Ascott (50), a General Labourer, living in West Mills, Newbury, with Elizabeth (52) his daughters Mary Ann (25), a Dressmaker, Eliza (24), a Corset Maker, a nephew John Ascott (6) and a lodger, William G. Studley (30), (Stoodley) a Miller.
Elizabeth Asscott died aged 59 in 1858. She was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 30th January as Elizabeth Ascot.
In 1861 James Ascott (62) was working as a Coal Porter, living in West Mills, Newbury. John Ascott (16), a Grocer’s Assistant was recorded lodging with him. His married daughter Mary Studley (Stoodley) and her children, John (10), William (5) and Arthur (5 months) were recorded living as a separate family in the same building.
In 1871 James Ascott (70) was living with his son-in-law John Pounds (47), his daughter Eliza Pounds (42) and his grandchildren, John Stoodley (18) and Elizabeth Stoodley (13) (children of his daughter Mary and her husband William George Stoodley, the lodger in the 1851 census recorded as William G. Studley)
In 1881 James (81) was recorded living at 10 Bartholomew Almshouses, Newtown Road, Newbury. He had a widowed Nurse, Elizabeth Wright (77) living with him.
James died aged 82 in 1882, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 11th November.
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