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Buried:	20/02/1864

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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	George Batson
Date of burial	20/02/1864
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated - Common Interment
By whom buried	Rev'd. C.H. Robarts
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 70

Accounts Entry for George Batson
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Biographical Information

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George Batson 1856-1864

George Batson

1856-1864

George was born on the 8^th July 1856 in London. He was baptised on the 27^th July 1856, at St Paul, Bermondsey, the son of David (a Porter) and Mary Ann Batson (nee Allen) of 36 Nelson Square.

George’s father David was born on the 26^th February 1826, in Pockthorpe, Norwich, Norfolk. He was baptised on the 5^th March 1856 at St James with Pockthorpe, Norwich, the son of David (a Weaver) and Mary Batson (nee Gibson).

George’s mother Mary Ann was born on the 21^st December 1829. She was baptised on the 17^th January 1830, at St Nicolas Church, Newbury Berkshire, the daughter of George and Melicent Allen (nee Purdue) who were married on the 5^th July 1829, at St Nicolas, Newbury.

George’s parents, David Baston and Mary Ann Allen were married on the 21^st August 1853, at St James, Shoreditch, Middlesex.

They also had the following children:

Frederick David, born 1854, in Bethnal Green

Mary Ann, born 1859, in St Luke, Middlesex. (died aged 17 months, in 1861, buried 13^th Feb. 1861 in City of London, Tower Hamlets, Cemetery)

William, born 1861, in St Luke, Middlesex. (died soon after birth in 1861)

Thomas, born 1865, in St Luke, Middlesex

George, born c1870, in Bethnal Green

The 1861 census records George (5) living at 46 Banner Street, St Luke’s, Middlesex, with his father David (34) a Porter, his mother Mary Ann (32) and his brother Frederick (7)

George died aged 7 in 1864. He was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 20^th February.

In 1871 David (43) a Packer, Mary Ann (41), Frederick David (16), Thomas (6) and George (1), were living 15 Ellesmere Road, Bethnal Green, London.

Mary Ann died aged 43 on the 17^th April 1873, in London. Her body was brought to Newbury and she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 21^st April 1873. (She shares as grave with her younger sister, Hannah Allen (1835-1915))

George’s father David remarried on the 30^th August 1874, at St Stephen’s, Bow, Middlesex. His 2^nd wife was Susan Kirtland.

The 1881 and 1891 census records record David and Susan living in Ellesmere Road, Bethnal Green. In 1881 Thomas (16) and George (12) were recorded still living at home, by 1891 David and Susan were living alone.

David died aged 74 in 1901. (Death registered in the March quarter in Bethnal Green)

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