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Personal Details of Sophia Parr

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Buried:	08/09/1863

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Burial Register

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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	Sophia Parr
Date of burial	08/09/1863
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated - Common Interment
By whom buried	Rev'd. J.L. Randall
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 68

Accounts Entry for Sophia Parr
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Sophia Parr.

Sophia Parr 1815-1863

Sophia Parr

1815-1863

Sophia was born on the 26^th August 1815, she was baptised on the 27^th August, in Beenham, Berkshire, the daughter of John and Mary Turner (nee Twitchen) who were married on the 21^st August 1814, in Padworth, Berkshire. (John was from Woolhampton, witnesses: Wm Balding, Jane Turner and Sophia Turner)

Sophia’s siblings were (all baptised in Beenham):

Eliza, 29^th June 1817

John, 27^th June 1819

Mary, 2^nd September 1821

Joseph, 20^th July 1823

William, 9^th April 1826

Henry John, 12^th July 1828

In 1851 Sophia (35) was recorded working as a Dressmaker, living in Aldermaston, Berkshire.

Sophia married William Parr in 1852, (marriage registered in Newbury)

(William was a Carpenter. He was baptised on the 15^th October 1815, at St Nicolas Church, Newbury, the son of Robert and Mary Parr (nee Woods) who were married on the 2^nd August 1808, at St Nicolas, Newbury. In 1851 William (36) was lodging in Woolhampton, Berkshire. (2.3 miles from Aldermaston))

William and Sophia had the following 3 children baptised at St Nicolas Church, Newbury:

William 9^th February 1854 (died aged 8 days, buried in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 17^th February)

Mary, 31^st August 1856

Eliza, 26^th September 1858

The 1861 census records William (45), Sophia (45), their daughters Mary (5), Eliza (2) and a house servant, living in Masons Yard, Northbrook Street, Newbury.

Sophia died aged 48 in 1863, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 8^th September.

William died aged 56 in 1869, he was buried on the 27^th May, at St Mary the Virgin, Speen, Berkshire.

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