Grave 79
     

Morris Abrahams

1800  – 1877

buried …


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May his soul be bound up in the bond of life eternal

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IN SACRED MEMORY OF
MORRIS ABRAHAMS
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JULY THE 27TH
AND WAS INTERRED ON THE 29TH  5638 1877
AGED 78 YEARS
“TRULY MY SOUL WAITETH UPON GOD
FROM HIM COMETH MY SALVATION”
[Psalm 62:1]


Morris (Maurice/Morice) Abrahams was born in Poland between 1799 and 1806. It is not known when Morris came to England. He married a Christian, Louisa, born around 1811 in Trowbridge. Their first daughter Maria was born in 1829 in Warminster. They had two more daughters and five sons. Morris was a Jeweller but in later years worked as a draper.

The family lived in Wiltshire moving from Bishop Cannings to Great Cheverell and then Bromham and Calne. 

Morris died of prostate disease in July 1877 in Bath. Their eldest daughter, Lavinia, is recorded in the 1851 census as a barmaid in the Bell Inn in Fugglestone St Peter, Wilts. Two of her brothers and one of her sisters are living with her. Lavinia went on to become a hotel keeper in Derbyshire. 

One of her brothers, Aaron, remained in Wiltshire and trained greyhounds. Louisa, Morris’s wife, died in 1897 in Derbyshire where she had gone to live with one of her daughters.
Wife Louisa: dies Oct 1897 in Fairfield, Chapel en le Frith Derbyshire.
Census records
  1841   Nursery  Unknown   Bishops Canning. Wilts
Name | Age
Birth
Relationship
Occupation
Wiltshire 
Head
Jeweller
Wiltshire 
Wife
Wife
Warminster 
Daughter
Unknown
Warminster 
Son
Unknown
  1851   An Inn  Unknown   Great Cheverell, Wilts
Name | Age
Birth
Relationship
Occupation
Poland 
Head
Pedlar
Trowbridge 
Wife
Wife
Warminster 
Son
Unknown
  1861   None  Horspool   Bromham, Wilts
Name | Age
Birth
Relationship
Occupation
Poland 
Head
Draper
Trowbridge 
Wife
Unknown
Stanton 
Son
None
Stanton 
Daughter
None
Haydon 
Son
None
  1871   None  None   Quemerford, Calne, Wilts
Name | Age
Birth
Relationship
Occupation
Trowbridge 
Wife
Wife
Haydon 
Son
Unknown
Poland 
Head
Draper
Wilts 
Daughter
Unknown
Associated addresses
     11  Prior Park Cottages   Bath
  Place of death.