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Monument Details
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4 Kerbstones |
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Sandstone Lead letters |
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South Kerbstone: inner slope: In Loving Memory of Pollie Elizabeth Prestoe who died Oct. 23rd. 1895 aged 20 years.Oct. 23rd 1895 // West Kerbstone: inner slope: Albert William Prestoe died Feb. 27th. 1909 aged 38. // North Kerbstone: inner slope: Mary Jane Prestoe died July 12th. 1939 aged 65. // East Kerbstone: inner slope: Annie Charlotte Prestoe died Oct. 4th. 1949 aged 83. //
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Overgrown, hardly visible until dug up and bushes cleared. |
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Pollie, Albert & Annie were the children of Richard Allen Prestoe, Engine fitter, & Eliza nee Hatt, at 5, Pleasant Place, St John's Rd, Newbury, later moving to no 6. Pollie helped at home until her death. Annie was a dressmaker and did not marry. She died at no 11, St John's Rd, Newbury, leaving £186 to Reginad Prestoe Smith, a company secretary. Albert was a Printer's Compositor who married Mary Elizabeth in 1895. They lived in Harringay, Middlesex. They had two girls and 2 boys. Albert was living in 4, Salcombe Villas at his death. Mary Jane Prestoe was the wife of Albert's brother, Harry Richard, Whitesmith. Mary was born to Richard & Emma Light in Shefford. Richard, a Police Constable, died a year after Mary's birth. His widow brought the children up at 3, Chestnut Court, off Bartholomew St, Newbury and worked as a Nurse. Mary was an Apprentice & Boarder with a Hairdresser & his wife, a dressmaker of Pound St. She was living in the Parish of when the Banns were read for her marriage to Harry in 1898 in Newbury. They lived at 51, York Rd, Newbury until her death. Sources: Ancestry records; NRC Bur Recds
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