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Personal Details of Edwin Collins

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Buried:	15/11/1856

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

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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	Edwin Collins
Date of burial	15/11/1856
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated Ground - Common Interment
By whom buried	Rev'd. H.T. White
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 31

Accounts Entry for Edwin Collins
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Edwin Collins.

Alice (Helen) Collins (1850 – 1856)

Alice (Helen) Collins (1850 – 1856)

Edwin Collins (1854 – 1856)

Alice Collins was born in 1850 in Newbury, the daughter of Edwin and Martha, nee New, Collins. Edwin and Martha had married on 21 March 1849 at St Nicolas in Newbury. Alice was baptized as Alice Jane on 28 April 1850 at St Nicolas in Newbury, Edwin was recorded as a millwright.

In the 1851 census Alice was living with her parents Edwin and Martha in Pleasant Place in Newbury with Edwin recorded as an engineer.

Edwin and Martha had four more children, all born in Newbury, Edwin (1854), Edward (1857), Brice (1859) and Annie (1861).

Edwin junior was baptized on 30 July 1854 at St Nicolas in Newbury, his father Edwin was recorded as an engineer.

Alice died on 10 November 1856 at Pleasant Place, East Fields in Newbury from Pulmonary disease. She was recorded as six years old, the daughter of Edwin Collins, a journeyman millwright. On the death certificate she was recorded as Helen, which was also the name recorded for the service held at St Nicolas before her burial. In the Newtown Road Cemetery accounts books she was recorded as Alice though. Alice, or Helen, was buried at Newtown Road Cemetery on 15 November 1856.

Alice’s younger brother Edwin was also buried at Newtown Road Cemetery on the same date, 15 November. He was recorded as 2 years and five months old in the burial records.

Edwin senior and Martha continued to live in Newbury after the burials of Alice (Helen) and Edwin and both were buried at Newtown Road Cemetery, Edwin on 31 October 1862 and Martha on 1 March 1876.

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