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Personal Details of Mary Matilda Freeman Cooke

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Buried:	17/08/1860

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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	Mary M. Freeman Cook
Date of burial	17/08/1860
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Unconsecrated Ground - Common Interment
By whom buried	Rev'd. Henry Flint
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 53
Transcription comments	FreeBMD lists middle name as Matilda

Accounts Entry for Mary Matilda Freeman Cooke
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Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Mary Matilda Freeman Cooke.

Mary Matilda Freeman Cooke

Mary Matilda Freeman Cooke

1859-1860

Mary was born in Newbury in 1859 she was the eldest child of Edward & Matilda Cooke (nee Abel) who were married in Newbury in 1859. Mary’s father was a Salesman /China Dealer. (He was the brother-in-law of James Jeremiah Davies who had a successful China/Glass /Earthenware business in Northbrook Street)

Mary died aged 1 in 1860 and was laid to rest in the Newtown Cemetery on the 17^th August 1860

Edward and Matilda went on to have nine more children:

Henry Edward c1861

William 1862

Percy 1865

Agnes 1867

Harry 1869

Herbert c1871

Ernest Walter 1873

Albert George c1876

Edith Ethel Grace 1881

After Mary’s brother Henry Edward was born the family moved to London, later they moved to Lambeth.

Mary’s father Edward died aged 49 in 1886.

The 1901 census records Mary’s mother Matilda as a visitor at 1 Ashley House Newbury (the home of James Jeremiah Davies and family). In 1911 Matilda was living at 44 Gloucester Road Newbury, she died aged 76 in 1915 and was laid to rest in the Newtown Cemetery on the 20^th February.

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