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Personal Details of Dennis Adams

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Born:
Died:	15/11/1893
Buried:	18/11/1893

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

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Birth

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Death

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Burial Register

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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	Dennis Adams
Date of burial	18/11/1893
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Conscrated Common Internment
By whom buried	Reverend W Pheasent
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 075
Transcription comments	On FBMD

Accounts Entry for Dennis Adams
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Workhouse Records

This information was taken from the Newbury Workhouse records currently held at the Berkshire Record Office.

Name:	Dennis Adams
Date of death:	15 November 1893
Age at death:	80
Parish from which they were admitted to the workhouse:	Thatcham
Where buried:	Newbury Cemetery
Workhouse Master:	William Hawkes
Comments:

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

deaths - Dennis Adams

Source:	nwn
Article date:	23/11/1893
Copyright:
Transciption:	Newbury Weekly News Dated 23^rd November 1893 ADAMS – Nov. 15, at the Workhouse, Newbury, Dennis Adams, aged 80, late of Thatcham
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Dennis Adams.

Dennis Adams c1815-1893

Dennis Adams

c1815-1893

Dennis was baptised on the 21^st February 1819, at St Mary, Thatcham, Berkshire, (with his sisters, Elizabeth and Mary) the son of Dennis and Rebecca Adams.

His father Dennis was baptised on the 2^nd April 1786, in Thatcham, Berkshire, the son of Dennis and Hannah Adams. He died aged 62 in 1847 and was buried on the 3^rd June at St Mary Thatcham, Berkshire.

His mother Rebecca was born c1785 (place unknown). She died aged 61 in 1845 and was buried on the 4^th January 1846 at St Mary, Thatcham

Dennis and Rebecca also had the following children baptised in Thatcham:

Diana, 15^th April 1811 (with her sister Sarah)

Sarah, 15^th April 1811 (with her sister Diana)

George, 21^st March 1813

John, 10^th May 1814

Elizabeth, 1819 (with her brother Dennis and sister Mary)

Mary, 1819 (with her brother Dennis and sister Elizabeth)

Martha, 9^th September 1821

Dennis was a bachelor. In 1841 he was recorded as a Sawyer, aged 20, living in Church Lane, Thatcham, Berkshire, with his father Dennis (50), a Sawyer and his mother Rebecca (50).

In 1861 Dennis (45) was again recorded as a Sawyer. He was lodging in Basingstoke, Hampshire.

In 1871 Dennis (50) was recorded as a Pit Sawyer, lodging at the Queen’s Arms, Bunnian Place, Basingstoke, Hampshire.

The 1881 census records Dennis (66) as a Pauper/Agricultural Labourer, in the Newbury Workhouse. He was also recorded as an inmate in the Newbury Workhouse in 1891 (ancestry have mistakenly recorded his age as 49 instead of 79)

Dennis died in the Newbury Workhouse, aged 80, on the 15^th November 1893. He was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 18^th November.

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