William Lovell

c1830-1869

According to the 1851 census, William was born in Dorchester, Dorset.

He married Rebecca Burton, in 1857 (marriage registered in the September quarter, in Newbury).

(Rebecca was born in Marsh Benham, Berkshire. She was baptised at St Mary the Virgin, Speen, in 1832, the daughter of Daniel and Mary Burton (nee Miles) who were married in 1821, in Speen or Enborne, Berkshire).

Rebecca gave birth to a daughter, Eliza Ann in 1857 (birth registered in the September quarter, in Newbury). Eliza Ann did soon after birth (death registered in the December quarter), she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 7^th November, as Elizabeth Ann.

The 1861 census records William (30,) a Coach Wheelwright and Rebecca (29), lodging in Oxford Road, Speen, Berkshire, with a Joel Dibley (78), a Bricklayer and his wife Harriet (52).

In c1865 Rebecca gave birth to another daughter, Mary Ann Amelia.

William died aged 39, in 1869, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 9^th April.

After William’s death Rebecca worked as a Nurse.

In 1871 Rebecca (37) was working for a Farmer, Stephen N. Rowland (45) and his family, at Elmwood, Coulsdon, Surrey. Her daughter Mary Ann Amelia (6) was living with her uncle John Freeman (40), her aunt, Johanna Freeman (47), (nee Burton) and her cousins, Jane (9) and Sarah Ann (6), at 12 West Mills, Newbury, Berkshire.

In 1881 and 1891 Rebecca was recorded working for Leeds Paine, a Stocks and Shares Dealer and his family, at Heath Lodge, Egham, Surrey,

The 1901 census records Rebecca (67) living on her own means, in Sulhamstead Bannister Upper End, Berkshire. Her niece, Sarah Ann Freeman (36) was living with her and was also living on her own means.

Rebecca died 74, in 1906. (death registered in Kingsclere) She was buried on the 19^th April in Reading Berkshire.

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