Friends of Newtown Road Cemetery

Personal Details of Eliza Mills

Jump to: Birth Death Burial Memorial Cemetery Accounts Newspaper Cuttings Biographies

Born:
Died:
Buried:	17/08/1892

Listed below are all the details we have been able to find so far on Eliza Mills.

As far as we are aware, all the information is correct. However, sometimes transcriptions can lead to errors being made. If you find any errors or omissions, please let us know and we will endeavour to get them corrected as soon as possible.

If you have any further information on Eliza Mills, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Birth

There is no information in our database regarding the birth of Eliza Mills.

Can you help us? If so, please contact our History Research Group.

Death

There is no information in our database regarding the death of Eliza Mills.

Can you help us? If so, please contact our History Research Group.

Burial Register

There is no burial register information available for Eliza Mills.
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.

Memorial Details

	Kerbstone north: Eliza Mills died Aug 14th 1892 aged 76 years / south: Also of Jessie Lousia wife of Robert Martin who died Jan 20th 1936 / Outside of south kerbstone: Also of Robert Martin who died April 24th 1937 in his 71 year

Name on Memorial	Eliza MILLS
Date of death	14/08/1892
Age	78
Gender	Female

Memorial Type	4 kerbstones with corners.
Construction Material	Sandstone
Condition of memorial	sunken grave
Pattison Location Code	CH4 (D)
Recorder's Notes	NB Jessie's obit. in the NWN records her date of death as 16/01/1936
Others named on memorial
Jessie Louisa MARTIN
Robert MARTIN

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	Eliza Mills
Date of burial	17/08/1892
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated Private Grave
By whom buried	Reverend W Pheasent
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 068
Transcription comments	On FBMD

Accounts Entry for Eliza Mills
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

deaths - Eliza Mills

Source:	nwn
Article date:	18/08/1892
Copyright:
Transciption:	Newbury Weekly News Dated 18^th August 1892 MILLS – August 14, at 9 Craven-street, Eliza, widow of the late William Mills of Bicester, and the daughter of the late William Paxton, of Longford, near Bicester, Oxon.
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Eliza Mills.

Eliza Mills c1816-1892

Eliza Mills

c1816-1892

Eliza was baptised on the 27^th October 1816, at St Mary, Potsgrove, Bedfordshire, the daughter of William (a Bailiff) and Ann Paxton (nee Pitkin) who were married on the 29^th December 1803, at St Mary, Woburn, Bedfordshire.

Eliza’s siblings were:

James, baptised 10^th June 1804, at St Mary, Woburn

Thomas, born c1805 (no baptism found)

Charlotte, baptised 1^st January 1807, in Battlesden

Marianne, (aka Mary Ann) baptised 1809, in Battlesden

William, baptised 27^th October 1811, in Battlesden

George, baptised 16^th July 1813, in Battlesden

Jonas, baptised 24^th May 1816, in Potsgrove

Eliza married in 1838

Marriage details:

Place: Bicester, Oxfordshire

Date: 7^th August 1838

Groom: William Mills, full age, bacheror, occupation, Chemist, abode, Bicester, Market End

Bride: Eliza Paxton, full age, spinster, abode, Longford, Bicester

Fathers: William Mills, a Gentleman and William Paxton, a Farmer

Witnesses: William Paxton and George Paxton

William and Eliza had the following five children:

Eleanor, born 1839, in Bicester, Oxfordshire

William Faulkner born 8^th January 1841, baptised R. C. 7^th January 1842, in Bicester (dad a Chemist, abode, Market Place)

James Paxton, born 25^th December 1841, baptised Jonas Paxton 26^th January 1842, in Bicester (dad a Chemist, abode, Market Place. (Died aged 0 in 1842, recorded as Jonas Paxton on FreeBMD and James Paxton on the GRO webside)

Jessey Harriott born c1843

Henry Langford born 1845 (died aged 5 months, buried 27^th September 1845, in Bicester)

The 1841 census records William Mills (25), a Chemist, living in Market Place, Bicester, with Eliza (25) and their children, Eleanor (2), (recorded as Helen on ancestry) and William (5 months)

The 1851 census records Eliza (35) and her daughters, Eleanor (11) and Jessie (8), living at Langford Farm, Bicester, with her parents, Ann (67) and William Paxton (67), a Farmer of 500 acres, employing 14 Labourers and 3 servants.

Eliza’s father, William Paxton, died aged 76, on the 11^th December 1859, in Bicester.

In 1861 Eliza (45), a Fundholder, her daughters Eleanor Mills (21) and Jessie Mills (18), were living in Swan Street, Bicester, with Eliza’s widowed mother, Ann Paxton (77), a retired Farmer, her sister Mary Flint (51), her sister-in-law, Ann Paxton (60) and a house servant.

Eliza’s mother Ann Paxton, died aged 80, in 1864, in Bicester

In 1871 Eliza (56) was recorded as an Annuitant, living in St Mary Hill, Newbury, Berkshire, with her married sister Mary Ann Flint (61), her brother-in-law, Henry Flint (63), a Coal Merchant and two domestic servants.

The 1881 census records Eliza (64), living in Craven Street, Newbury, Berkshire, with her married daughter Eleanor Tucker (41), her granddaughters Jessie Tucker (18) and Jessie Slocock (12) and her nieces Jessie Paxton (30) and Hester Paxton (29). All were recorded as Ladies.

In 1891 Eliza (75) was living on her own means. She was still living in Craven Street Newbury, Berkshire. Her granddaughter Jessie Tucker (28) and her nieces Jessie Paxton (41) and Hester Paxton (38) were still living with her.

Eliza died aged 76, on the 14^th August 1892, she was laid to rest in a private grave, in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 17^th August.

(Eliza’s granddaughter, Jessie Louisa Martin (nee Tucker) died in 1936, she was laid to rest with Eliza on the 20^th January. Her husband Robert Martin, died the following year and was laid to rest with Eliza and Jessie, on the 28^th April 1937)

Newbury Weekly News

Dated 18^th August 1892

MILLS – August 14, at 9 Craven-street, Eliza, widow of the late William Mills of Bicester, and the daughter of the late William Paxton, of Longford, near Bicester, Oxon.

Mrs P’s Page 66 Code Ch4(D)

*The FNRC believe that the certificates published on this page have been added in compliance with the rules laid down by the General Register Office (GRO). Click here for more information.
If you believe that we may have inadvertently breached the privacy of a living person by publishing any document, please contact us so we can immediately remove the certificate and investigate further.
Thank you.
FNRC.