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Personal Details of Elizabeth Phillips

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Buried:	25/01/1890

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Birth

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Death

Name at death

Elizabeth Phillips

Date of death

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Female

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Burial service at St. Nicholas Church

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Burial Register

There is no burial register information available for Elizabeth Phillips.
Only three of the five burial register books still exist as far as we know and these are held at the Berkshire Record Office.
Stillborn children were not recorded in the burial register, only in the cemetery accounts.

Cemetery accounts

This information is taken from the accounts ledgers of the Newbury Cemetery Company that originally ran and maintained the cemetery.
The Ledgers are held at the Berkshire Records Office.

Name at death	Elizabeth Phillips
Date of burial	25/01/1890
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Conscrated Common Internment
By whom buried	Reverend W Pheasent
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 047
Transcription comments	On FBMD

Accounts Entry for Elizabeth Phillips
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

deaths - Elizabeth Phillips

Source:	nwn
Article date:	30/01/1890
Copyright:
Transciption:	An announcement appeared in the Newbury Weekly News dated 30 January 1890 as below. PHILLIPS – Jan. 22, at Jack Street, Newbury, Elizabeth, widow of the later Alfred Phillips, aged 72.
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Elizabeth Phillips.

Elizabeth Phillips (1818 – 1890)

Alfred Phillips (1821 – 1864)

Elizabeth Phillips (1818 – 1890)

Alfred Phillips was baptized on 1 July 1821 at St Nicolas in Newbury, the son of Paul and Ann. His father was recorded as a tailor. In the 1841 census Alfred was recorded with his parents and sister Ann in Bartholomew Street in Newbury. Alfred had no occupation recorded while his father Paul was a tailor.

Alfred married Elizabeth Alexander on 6 June 1842 at St Nicolas in Newbury. Alfred was recorded as a tailor in the marriage record. Elizabeth was born circa 1818 in Hungerford. In the marriage record her father was recorded as George Alexander, a bricklayer and her occupation was a servant. In the 1841 census Elizabeth was recorded living as a servant with John Kimber and his family in Bartholomew Street in Newbury.

In the 1851 census Alfred and Elizabeth were recorded living at Crown Court in Newbury with daughters Elizabeth, Ann, Alice, Emma, Mary and Ellen and Alfred was a tailor. Ten years later in the 1861 census Alfred and Elizabeth were recorded living in a public house in Bartholomew Street in Newbury with six daughters. Alfred was a tailor and a publican.

Alfred died on 24 December 1864 aged 43 at the Albion Inn in Bartholomew Street in Newbury and he was buried at Newtown Road Cemetery on 30 December. An announcement appeared in the Reading Mercury dated 31 December 1864 as below.

On the 24th inst., at the “Albion” Inn, Bartholomew Street, Newbury, after a long and painful illness, Alfred Phillips, aged 43, leaving a widow and ten daughters.

A few years later in the 1871 census Elizabeth was recorded living in London Road in Speen along with her daughters Georgina, Louisa Matilda and Maria. Elizabeth was a tailoress. Elizabeth was still living in Speen in the 1881 census along with her daughter Louisa Matilda and grand-daughter Mary and she was still working as a tailoress.

Elizabeth died on 22 January 1890 aged 72 and she was buried at Newtown Road Cemetery on 25 January. An announcement appeared in the Newbury Weekly News dated 30 January 1890 as below.

PHILLIPS – Jan. 22, at Jack Street, Newbury, Elizabeth, widow of the later Alfred Phillips, aged 72.

Alfred’s parents Paul and Ann were buried at Newtown Road Cemetery on 18 December 1861 and 25 July 1856 respectively.

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