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25th July |
Jane Allen |
26 |
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William Halford |
46 |
26th July |
Susanna Oakeley |
26 |
30th July |
William Henry White |
2 |
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Elizabeth Purser |
36 |
1st August |
George Purser |
7 |
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Thomas Church |
80 |
2nd August |
Hannah Powell |
64 |
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Ann Bates |
8 |
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William Richards |
2 |
3rd August |
John Pritchard |
32 |
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Bleven Smith |
75 |
4th August |
Elizabeth Embury |
42 |
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Susanna Bates |
31 |
5th August |
William Purser |
3 |
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It was probably from this date that the 'New' burial ground was used. Mrs Lawson records that a woman called Church was one of the first to be buried there and, in the minute book it is recorded that on the 7th the Secretary was instructed to ask the permission of the commissioners for the Building of New Churches for an additional burying ground. |
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6th August |
Sarah Church |
63 |
8th August |
William Fereday |
63 |
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Elizabeth Fowler |
23 |
9th August |
Thomas Bourn |
26 |
10th August |
Mary Bourn |
25 |
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John Shepherd |
26 |
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Jane Ward |
2(?) |
11th August |
William Taylor |
53 |
13th August |
Frances Fereday |
10 |
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Elizabeth Lane |
16 |
14th August |
Mary Sutton |
80 |
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William Turner |
2 |
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Elizabeth Ferriday |
14 |
15th August |
Eliza Mills |
23 |
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Joseph Hill |
1yr 9mths |
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James Allen |
56 |
16th August |
Lydia Ferriday |
55 |
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John Pratt |
2 |
18th August |
Henry Stokes |
35 |
21st August |
Henry Johnson |
2 |
29th August |
John Sandilands |
9 |
The next death recorded in the burial book was on September 13th, 1832. Whether the "cholera" burial ground continued to be used is not known: the churchyard was very full, and discussions about a new burial ground had started in 1830. The extension, under the current mini-roundabout, was not acquired until 1836. During the equivalent period in 1831 there were 9 burials and in 1833 there were 6. Mrs Lawson suggests that there were 1or 2 burials in the Baptist churchyard, including Susanna Oakeley's brother, and that there were perhaps others who died from cholera: "the general impression is that the number was between forty and fifty." She says that two of these are recorded in a private list which was kept at the time and that "it is quite possible, when funerals were so frequent and so hasty, that some names of children, perhaps unbaptised infants, may have been omitted. Compulsory Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths did not start until 1836. Although Mrs Lawson's Records and Traditions of Upton-on-Severn was written within living memory of the outbreak (36 years), experience of such estimates would suggest that they are often inflated. Simon C Wilkinson |