Anne Morgan, aged 81, of Boreham, Warminster, was buried at Christ Church, Warminster, on 29th October 1853.
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Burial Of Benjamin Dutch
Benjamin Dutch, aged 70, of Boreham Road, Warminster, was buried at Christ Church, Warminster, on 25th October 1852.
The Skeete Household At Boreham Road, Warminster, 1851
The 1851 Census (Sunday 30th March 1851) includes:
Boreham Road, Warminster
Mary Skeete, head of the household, widow, age 71, female, born 1780. Occupation: Security on landed property. Born Barbados, West Indies. British subject.
Joanna Skeete, daughter, unmarried, age 36, female, born 1815. Occupation: Security on landed property. Born Barbados, West Indies. British subject.
Margaret Skeete, daughter, unmarried, age 33, born 1818. Occupation: Security on landed property. Born St. Mary le Bow, Durham.
Helen Cadell, daughter, widow, age 31, female, born 1820. Occupation: Pension from East India Company, service. Born St. Mary le Bow, Durham. Captain’s widow.
Walter Cadell, grandson, age 3, male, born 1848. Born East Indies. British subject.
Delomey Hamilton, granddaughter, age 13, female, born 1838. Born Ireland.
Ann Wilkinson, servant, unmarried, age 58, female, born 1793. Housekeeper’s situation. Born St. Nicholas, Durham.
Hannah Howell, servant, unmarried, age 45, female, born 1806. Cook. Born Mere, Wiltshire.
Emma Osborne, servant, unmarried, age 22, female, born 1829. Born Olveston, Gloucestershire.
Matilda Exton, servant, unmarried, age 19, female. Born 1832. House servant. Born Corsley, Wiltshire.
The Will Of John Houghton Of Boreham Farm, Warminster, 1850
The will of John Houghton, farmer, of Boreham Farm, near Warminster, dated 2nd December 1850, is held by the National Archives, Kew. Reference: PROB 11/2123/375.
Funeral Sermon For Benjamin Steedman
Sunday 2nd January 1848
“Funeral sermon for my departed friend, Benjamin Steedman, who died 27th December last, aged eighty-five years. His grandfather was among the first Methodists in Warminster: he had preaching in his house about ninety-one years ago, at Rehobath, Warminster Common. When a boy, our departed friend attended the Methodist preaching. He was a witness of, and a sharer in, all the bitter persecution of the poor Methodists in this town, in and about 1773. He afterwards helped to fit up the preaching-room in Pound Street, where, for fourteen years, the services were kept up, and where the usual reproach was shared. He heard the Rev. Mr. Wesley preach his last sermon in Frome, (I think it was when King George the Third was at Longleat) and was acquainted with all the old preachers that then visited this town.”
“There was a crowded congregation. And how marvellous the occurrence that I should preach his funeral sermon, nearly forty-seven years after the period when he first invited me to hear the gospel.”
William Daniell, The History Of Warminster Common, published 1850.
Burial Of Jeremiah Morgan
Jeremiah Morgan, aged 85, of Boreham, Warminster, was buried at Christ Church, Warminster, on 14th September 1847.
Apprenticeship ~ Elizabeth Sarah Barton
Sunday 23rd November 1846
Elizabeth Sarah Barton, daughter of Esther Barton, of 2 Swatton Place, Stepney, London, apprenticed to George Symes, milliner and dressmaker, of 5 Keys Place, Bromley, Middlesex, 3 years, £20, 23rd November 1846. Esther Barton is from Warminster and is in ill health and has three children dependent on her.
Burial Of Jane Dutch
Jane Dutch, aged 4 and three-quarters, of East Street, Warminster, was buried at Christ Church, Warminster, on 4th July 1845.
Undissembled Grief For The Death Of Five-Year-Old Seth Hill
Sunday 24th March 1844
“At the close of the service this evening I made some observations on the death of Seth Hill, one of a large family at the Common, who all steadily love our cause, and greatly help the school. He was only five years of age – was in perfect health last Sabbath – was buried this afternoon! We sang the hymn (143rd) which the dear little fellow was learning when taken ill, with a view to repeat it with the rest of the Sunday scholars, this morning, at the chapel.”
“Such undissembled grief – such general weeping, I never witnessed since we had the chapel: I had hard work to finish the sermon, I felt so much, and justly so.”
William Daniell, The History Of Warminster Common, published 1850.
Apprenticeship ~ Charles Steadman From Warminster
Friday 9th February 1844
Charles Steadman, son of Benjamin Steadman and Jane Steadman, of College House, College Street, Belvidere Road, Lambeth, London, apprenticed to John Tapling Fisher, statuary and stone mason, of 14 King Street, Whitehall, London, 7 years, £25, 9th February 1844. Benjamin Steadman and Jane Steadman are both from Warminster and they have six children.