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Monument Details
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Headstone; Footstone |
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Sandstone Engraved |
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Headstone: In Loving Memory / of / Kezia / the dearly loved wife of Joseph Baverstock / who fell asleep Augt. 22: 1886 / in her 47th. Year. / "A sudden change: / in a moment fell / I had not time to bid my friends farewell / Take nothing strange, death happens unto all / My lot today, tomorrow you may fall." / "Thy will be done." / Also of / Joseph Moss Baverstock / who died March 2nd. 1904 / aged 72 years. // Foostone: K. B. / 1886 / J.M.B. / 1904 //
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Excellent until c 2017 then face with MI sheared off in several fragile sections, now propped against headstone. Footstone laid flat away from headstone. |
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P(G)13 |
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Joseph Moss Baverstock was born in Newbury & married Kezia Head, daughter of Sack Weaver, Joseph Head & his wife Jane Virtue of Greenham in 1860. They had 2 children & Kezia worked as a Charwoman in 1881. Joseph was a Blacksmith, first when a Private in the Royal Marines in Gosport, Hants. Her served in the China Campaign where he lost a leg & was pensioned out of the Navy with a wooden leg. After marriage he worked as a Blacksmith in Greenham &, by 1871, he & Kezia lived on Corn Wharf & was a Labourer in the Eagle Iron Works, later becoming a Screw Cutter at the Works in 1881. After his wife's death he lived in Wharf Rd, Newbury with his married son, Alfred, wife Sarah & grandchildren. When the family moved south, Joseph stayed alone at the Wharf drawing his Army Pension until he died in the Workhouse Infirmary, Newtown Rd. after fealling at home. Sources: See NRC Bur record for full report in NWN of Joseph's death; Ancestry records.
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01 January 2023 |
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