William George Payne (1875 – 1880)

Henry Charles Payne was born in 1848 in Woodhay in Hampshire. He married Charlotte Talbot on 6 December 1873 at St Thomas in Woolton Hill. Charlotte was born in Burghclere in circa 1852. Both Henry and Charlotte were living in Woolton Hill at the time of the marriage and both were working as servants.

Henry and Charlotte settled in Highclere after the marriage and their eldest child Charles Henry was baptized on 12 April 1874 at St Michael and All Angels in Highclere. Henry was recorded as a groom in the baptism record. In the following year another son William George was baptized on 12 September 1875 at Highclere.

The family them moved to Newbury and sadly William George died on 21 August 1880, aged 4, according to burial records, or aged 5, according to the announcement in the Newbury Weekly News. He was buried at Newtown Road Cemetery on 25 August. An announcement appeared in the Newbury Weekly News dated 26 August as below.

PAYNE – Aug. 21, at Alton Place, Newbury, William George Payne, age 5 years.

In the 1881 census William and Charlotte were still living in Alton Place in Newbury along with children Charles aged 7, Edith aged 3 and Margaret aged 1. William was a groom.

Ten years later in the 1891 census William was recorded in Bartholomew Place in Newbury along with five of his children and William was still working as a groom. It appears the family had moved around as the children had different birth places, Edith aged 13 was born in Donnington, Margaret aged 11 and Winifred aged 9 were both born in Newbury, Maude aged 7 was born in Crookham and William aged 5 was born in Leckhampstead. Charlotte was probably recorded as a servant living in Wootton St Lawrence and working as a domestic cook, and recorded as a widow (Henry was recorded as married in the census).

It appears the family then moved away from Newbury and they have not been identified in censuses from 1901 onwards.

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