Monument Details

 

  Cross with wide base; 3 kerbstones.
 
   
  Cross: East face: IHS // Wide base of cross: In / Loving Memory / of / Gladys Eva / the youngest daughter of / Thomas Charles & Florence / Long / who passed away / June 21 1938 / aged 32 years / In Jesus' keeping. / Also of / Robert Christopher Long / died Feb. 18th 1940 aged 71. //
   
  Good, headstone upright, clear MI. Ivy bush in front.
  ChNW3
    Gladys was the daughter of Thomas & Florence. She lived with her widowed mother in Chieveley & Madeira Place, Newbury. No record of occupation found so far. Her Uncle Robert Charles Long, son of Ald. Robert Long & Mary, is buried with her. Robert Christopher Long was living with his grandparents in Wash Common in the 1871 census, then with his family at 138 Bartholomew St. In 1891 he was recorded as a Journalist & Author, visiting medical student, Montague Hopson of Newbury in Kensington. By 1900 he is recorded as being a Prison Warder at Wandsworth Prison SW18, first of all living in Officer's Quarters then at various addresses in Wandsworth & Balham, SW18 until his death. Neither he nor Gladys married. Sources: Ancestry records
   
  01 November 2017
  EAC
 

Persons named on this monument.

Gladys Eva LONG  
Robert Christopher LONG  

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