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Personal Details of Laura Purton

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Buried:	27/12/1853

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Birth

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Burial Register

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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	Laura Purton
Date of burial	27/12/1853
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Unconsecrated Ground - Common Interment
By whom buried	Alfred Brown
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 15

Accounts Entry for Laura Purton
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Laura Purton.

Laura Purton c1836-1853

Laura Purton

c1836-1853

Laura was baptised on the 30^th November 1836, at St Mary the Virgin, Speen, Berkshire, the daughter of Francis (a Butcher) and Hannah Purton (nee Buckridge/Buckeridge), who were married on the 27^th December 1830, at St Mary, Chieveley, Berkshire. (Both were single, Francis was from Thatcham, witnesses, Isaac and Sarah Buckridge/Buckeridge)

Laura’s father Francis was born on the 13^th October 1806, he was baptised on the 6^th January 1807, in Thatcham, Berkshire, the son of Israel and Sarah Purton (nee Lamb) who were married on the 13^th August 1804, in Hampshire. Francis died aged 36, in 1841, he was buried on the 19^th November, at St Peter, Woolhampton.

Francis and Hannah also had the following children:

Sarah, baptised 9^th November 1831, at St Mary, Thatcham

Elizabeth, baptised 31^st March 1833, at St Mary, Speenhamland

Hannah Maria, baptised 4^th January 1835, at St Nicolas, Newbury

Francis, baptised 7^th July 1839, at St Mary, Speenhamland

In 1841 Francis (35), Hannah (35) and their children, Sarah (6), (recorded as Maud on ancestry) Laura (4) (recorded as Samuel on ancestry) and Francis (2) (recorded as Freeman on ancestry) were recorded living in Speen, Berkshire. (Surname mistakenly recorded as Butin on ancestry)

Laura’s father Francis died aged 36, in 1841, he was buried on the 19^th November, at St Peter, Woolhampton.

The 1851 census records Laura (14) as an Apprentice, living in Shaw Road, Speenhamland, Berkshire, with a William Wright (48), a Coachmaker and his wife Jane (30), a Staymaker.

Laura died aged 17, in 1853. She was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 27^th December.

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