Monument Details

 

  4 Kerbstones; 4 cornerstones; slabs within kerbstones.
  Marble Engraved Letters on kerbs
   
  Kerbstone:North slope: In Ever Loving Memory of my dear husband Frederick George Shave who fell asleep 29th. July 1946 aged 62 years. // Kerbstone: West slope: In God's keeping // Within grave: Eastern slab: In Memory of / a dear mother / Hilda Donachie / who died April 8th. 1990/ aged 79. // Within grave: Eastern slab: Inset: In Everlasting Memory of / a dearest wife and mother / Polly Beadle / daughter of Frederick & Mary Shave / who died 1979 aged 70. Cremated. // Within grave: Western slab: In Memory of / Mary / wife of / Frederick Shave/ who died 1971 aged 86. Cremated. //
   
  Good condition, 1 cornerstone displaced, kerbs buried and Mis on top covered by moss and vegetation.
  LS (J)1
    Frederick was a house painter, son of a painter, who grew up in Northbrook St and later moved to 9 Pembroke Rd where he lived until he died. In 1907 he married Beatrice Mabel Mary (ka Mary), daughter of a groom then coal porter of Northcroft Lane & West Mills. She worked as a General Servant to a Laundry Proprietor of Ruislip Middx. before marriage. Frederick served in the Royal Berks Yeomany and was awarded a Z class star. They had three daughters. Hilda Dorothy, the eldest daughter whose memorial is on the grave, married Charles Donnachie in 1935 and lived at 78 King's Rd in 1939 with 2 children. Hilda lived in Talbot Close in 1965. She died in Texas n 1990 possibly whilst visiting her daughter Mary Winifred Aguilera who had married an American and emigrated to Texas and was naturalised in 1961. Hilda was registered as living alone in Newbury in 1950 (2, St Mary's Cottages, St Mary's Rd) & in 1965 at 90,Talbot Close, Newbury) The middle daughter, Alicia, ka Polly, married Fredereick Beadle of Camberwell, who became a male nurse after service in WW1. She was cremated in Lewisham & her ashes, aliong with her mother's, were interred in her father's grave. Her widow remarried in Walton on Thames in 1980. Source: Ancestry records.
   
  01 February 2020
  AEC
 

Persons named on this monument.

Frederick George SHAVE  
Mary SHAVE  
Polly BEADLE  
Hilda DONNACHIE  

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