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Headstone: In Loving Memory of / Josiah Henry / the beloved husband of Martha Collins / who died November 4th 1900. / aged 43 years. / Thy will be done. / "Had he asked us, well we know / we should cry 'O spare this blow' / Yes, with streaming tears should / pray 'Lord we love him, let him stay' " / Also of Martha Collins, / wife of the above who died 18th Feb. 1946 / in her 87th year. / Reunited. //
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Josiah was the son of a labourer in Faccombe, Hants. He worked as a labourer in Leckhampstead, Berks before 1884 when he married Martha Griffin, daughter of a farm labourer in Weston nr Newbury, After a marriage they lived in Smith's Cottages, Marsh St and worked as a Maltster before moving nearby to 26, Jack St where he died. His name is recorded as Henry Josiah on death & probate records. He left £42 to his widow. Martha was working as a Charwoman after Josiah's death and was still in Jack St with 3 of her 6 children in 1911 and in 1915 when William enlisted for war service. She died at 19 Queen's Rd, Newbury, home of her youngest daughter, Charlotte, Elsie Newman and he husband, Baker, Walter. Martha's brother Albert is buried in adjacent plot P(B)12 Sources: NRC Bur Rcds; Ancestry records.
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