Personal Details of James Farr
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| Buried: | 09/04/1870 |
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Burial Register
| Name at death | James Farr | ||||||
| Age at Death | 72 | ||||||
| Burial Date | 09 April 1870 | ||||||
| Abode |
Newbury |
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| Official at Burial | The Rev'd. E R Dowdeswell Curate of Newbury. | ||||||
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James Farr Marriage
| Source: | Reading Mercury 2nd, 9th April 1870 |
| Article date: | 02/04/1870 |
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| Transciption: | The following was reported in the Reading Mercury on the 2nd April 1870: ST NICOLAS CHURCH. – A somewhat singular wedding took place in the Church at about 10 o’clock on Monday morning. James Farr, an invalid, 62 years of age, living in Back-lane, was united in wedlock with Ann Bailey, a woman about 20 years his junior. The most singular fact, however, associated with the event was that Farr was wheeled through the streets to and from the Church, by the bride, and it was only with the assistance and that of other persons in the Church, that he could make his way up the nave. The Rev. C. Boyd, senior curate, was the officiating clergyman. James died aged 62, on the 5th April 1870, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 9th April. The following was reported in the Reading Mercury on the 9th April 1870: The married life of James Farr, of Back-lane, whose somewhat singular wedding was noticed last week, has proved very brief, his death having taken place on Tuesday. The parties had lived together previously, and Farr being very infirm, in fact quite bed-ridden, desired to be married to the woman, who wheeled him to Church and home again. |
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Biographical Information
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James Farr c1807-1870
James Farr
c1807-1870
James was baptised on the 25th October 1807, in Hampstead Norris, Berkshire, the son of James and Martha Farr (nee Church) who were married on the 27th October 1806, at St, Mary, Hampstead Norris Berkshire.
James and Martha also had the following children baptised in Hampstead Norris:
Mary, 1812
John, 1814
Hannah, 1818
Sarah, 1823
James married in 1828
Marriage details:
Place: Aldworth, Berkshire
Date: 4th October 1828
Groom: James Farr, abode, Hampstead Norris
Bride: Mary Ann Warman, abode, Aldworth
Witnesses: Elizabeth Warman, Harriet Brooks and Joseph Johnson
(Mary Ann was boaptised in 1805, in Aldworth, Berkshire, the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Warman)
James and Mary Ann had the following children, baptised in Hampstead Norris:
Thomas, 12th April 1829 (died 1829)
Elizabeth, 20th June 1830
Wiliam, 28th October 1832
George, 8th June 1834
James, 24th September 1837
John, 7th April 1839
David, 18th July 1841
In 1841 James (30) was working as an Agricultural Labourer, living in the hamlet of Eling, Hampstead Norris, Berkshire, with Mary (35), William (8), George (7), James (3), John (2) and David (2 weeks).
The 1851 census records James (43), an Agricultural Labourer, Mary (46) and their sons, John (12) and David (10), living in the hamlet of Eling.
Mary Ann died in 1854. (Age at death recorded as 58, death registered in Wantage).
James remarried in 1858.
Marriage details:
Place: Hampstead Norris, Berkshire
Date: 11th September 1858
Groom: James Farr, full age, widower, occupation, Labourer, abode, Hampstead Norris
Bride: Elizabeth Barnes, full age, spinster, abode, Hampstead Norris
Fathers: James Farr and John Barnes, both Labourers
Witnesses: William Hunt and Jemima Hunt
(Elizabeth was born c1839 in Wiltshire.)
The 1861 census records James (53), an Agricultural Labourer and Elizabeth (22), living in the hamlet of Eling.
James was widowed again in 1862, Elizabeth died aged 26 (death registered in Wantage)
James married for the third time in 1870
Marriage details:
Place: St Nicolas Church Newbury
Date: 28th March 1870
Groom: James Farr, full age, widower, occupation, Labourer, abode, Newbury
Bride: Ann Bailey, full age, widow, abode, Newbury
Fathers: James Farr and Jerry Smith, both Labourers
Witnesses: Esther Hamblin and John R. Stillman
(Ann was baptised in 1825, in Oare/Chieveley, Berkshire the daughter of Jeremiah and Jane Smith. She had a daughter Harriet Smith born in 1847, in Chieveley and a son William Smith, born in 1851 in Greenham. In 1851 she was recorded as a domestic servant, visiting a John Bailey aged 42, a Chelsea Pensioner, in Stroud Green, Greenham. She married John Bailey on the 1st November 1851, in Greenham. They had a daughter Sarah Ann, born 1854. Ann was widowed in 1856. She went on to have two more daughters, Ellen Elizabeth, c1858, Alice, 1860 (father’s unknown) and a son Albert George, c1866 (father unknown, possibly James Farr).
The following was reported in the Reading Mercury on the 2nd April 1870:
ST NICOLAS CHURCH. – A somewhat singular wedding took place in the Church at about 10 o’clock on Monday morning. James Farr, an invalid, 62 years of age, living in Back-lane, was united in wedlock with Ann Bailey, a woman about 20 years his junior. The most singular fact, however, associated with the event was that Farr was wheeled through the streets to and from the Church, by the bride, and it was only with the assistance and that of other persons in the Church, that he could make his way up the nave. The Rev. C. Boyd, senior curate, was the officiating clergyman.
James died aged 62, on the 5th April 1870, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 9th April.
The following was reported in the Reading Mercury on the 9th April 1870:
The married life of James Farr, of Back-lane, whose somewhat singular wedding was noticed last week, has proved very brief, his death having taken place on Tuesday. The parties had lived together previously, and Farr being very infirm, in fact quite bed-ridden, desired to be married to the woman, who wheeled him to Church and home again.
In 1871 Ann (50) was recorded as a Charwoman, living in Compasses Yard, Newbury, with her children, William Bailey (21) a Pork Butcher’s Labourer, Ellen Bailey (12), Alice Bailey (10) and Albert Bailey (5).
Ann died aged 50, in 1872, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 4th March.
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