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Personal Details of Jessie Paxton

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Buried:	01/04/1895

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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.

Memorial Details

	Kerbstone west: In loving memory of / north: Jessie Paxton who died April 1st 1895 aged 44 years / south: Also of Hester Paxton who died 5th May 1936 aged 84

Name on Memorial	Jessie PAXTON
Date of death	01/04/1895
Age	44
Gender	Female

Memorial Type	Kerbstones
Construction Material	Sandstone
Condition of memorial	Kerbstones inscription on the inner side - readable
Pattison Location Code	CH3 (D)
Others named on memorial
Hester PAXTON

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	Jessie Paxton
Date of burial	06/04/1895
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated Private Grave
By whom buried	Reverend W M Hope
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 083
Transcription comments	On FBMD

Accounts Entry for Jessie Paxton
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

deaths - Jessie Paxton

Source:	nwn
Article date:	04/04/1895
Copyright:
Transciption:	Newbury Weekly News Dated 4^th April 1895 PAXTON – April 1, at Braden Oak, Craven Road, Newbury, after a few days illness, Jessie, the eldest daughter of the late George Paxton, Esq., of Bicester, Oxon.
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Jessie Paxton.

Jessie Paxton c1850-1895

Jessie Paxton

c1850-1895

Jessie was born in Bicester, Oxfordshire, the daughter of George (a Coal Merchant) and Hester Paxton (nee Humphries) who were married on the 12^th June 1849, in Bicester. She was baptised on the 13^th March 1856, in Bicester, with her sisters Hester (born 1851) and Alice (born 1855, died 1856)

Her father George was baptised on the 16^th July 1813, in Battlesden, Bedfordshire, the son of William and Ann Paxton (nee Pitkin) who were married on the 29^th December 1803, at St Mary, Woburn, Bedfordshire. George died aged 46, on the 3^rd April 1861, in Bicester. His probate record records him as a Farmer and Coal Merchant, Effects: under £2000.

Jessie’s mother Hester was born c1825, in Oxfordshire. In 1841 she was recorded as Esther (15), living in Market Place, Bicester, with her father William (50) and Innkeeper, her mother Mary (40) and her brothers Henry (20) and John (15). Hester died aged 35, in 1860, in Bicester.

In 1851 George (37) was recorded as a Coal Merchant, living in Bicester, Market End, Oxfordshire, with Hester (25), Jessie (1) and Susan Wheeler (20), a General Servant

The 1861 census records Tessie (11) (Jessie) and Esther (8), (Hester) living in Swan Street, Bicester Market End, with a Housekeeper, Mary Ann Coleman (56) and a House Servant, Elizabeth Brown (18). (Census taken 7^th April, 4 days after their father’s death)

No record of Jessie and Hester found in 1871

The 1881 census records Jessie (30) and Hester (29), living in Craven Street, Newbury, Berkshire, with their aunt, Eliza Mills (64), their cousin, Eleanor Tucker (41) and Jessie Tucker (18) and Jessie Slocock (12), Eliza’s granddaughters. All were recorded as Ladies.

In 1891 Jessie (41) and Hester (38) were living on their own means. They were still living in Craven Street, Newbury, with their aunt, Eliza Mills (75), who was also living on her own means and her granddaughter Jessie Tucker (28), who was working as a Governess.

Their aunt, Eliza Mills 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.

Jessie died aged 44, on the 1^st April 1895, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road on the 6^th April.

(Jessie’s sister Hester died aged 84 in 1936, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 9^th May, with Jessie)

Probate: PAXTON Jessie of Brayden oak Craven-road Newbury Berks spinster died 1^st April 1895 Administration Oxford 31^st May to Hester Paxton spinster Effects: £244 10s

Newbury Weekly News

Dated 4^th April 1895

PAXTON – April 1, at Braden Oak, Craven Road, Newbury, after a few days illness, Jessie, the eldest daughter of the late George Paxton, Esq., of Bicester, Oxon.

Mrs P’s Page 66 Code Ch 3 (D)

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