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Personal Details of Frederick George Twitchen

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Buried:	03/11/1894

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Burial Register

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Memorial Details

	Headstone: In / Loving Memory / of / Frederick George / infant son of Frederick George & Charlotte / Twitchin / born July 15. 1891 / died Oct. 31. 1891 / "Jesus bids (the little children to come) unto him." //

Name on Memorial	Frederick George TWITCHEN
Date of death	31/10/1891
Age	3 months
Gender	Male

Memorial Type	Cross with broad base
Construction Material	Sandstone Engraved
Condition of memorial	Good. Part of MI weathered away.
Pattison Location Code	P(B)2
Recorder's Notes	Frederick was born to Frederick Baron Twitchin & Charlotte Griffin. His father was a blacksmith who grew up in Shaw Lane and West Mills. He married in Plumstead where he continued working as a blacksmith. He died 2 years after his son's death & is buried in Greenwich. Frederick George's mother is from the Welford, Berks. . His Uncle Albert Griffin is buried nearby in grave P(B)12 Sources: NRC Bur Records & Ancestry Records

Cemetery accounts

This information is taken from the accounts ledgers of the Newbury Cemetery Company that originally ran and maintained the cemetery.
The Ledgers are held at the Berkshire Records Office.

Name at death	Frederick George Twitchen
Date of burial	03/11/1894
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Unconsecrated Private Grave
By whom buried	Reverend H J Stead
Account Entry	Book 02 - Page 081
Transcription comments	On FBMD

Accounts Entry for Frederick George Twitchen
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

deaths - George Twitchen

Source:	nwn
Article date:	08/11/1894
Copyright:
Transciption:	Newbury Weekly News Dated 8^th November 1894 TWITCHEN – Oct. 31, at Marsh-road, Newbury, Fredk. George Twitchen, aged 3 years.
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

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Frederick George Twitchin 1891-1894

Frederick George Twitchin

1891-1894

Frederick George’s father Frederick Baron was a Blacksmith. He was baptised on the 8^th March 1863, at St Nicolas, Newbury, the son of Benjamin and Hannah Twitchin (nee Lewis) who were married on the 26^th February 1860, at St Nicolas, Newbury.

His mother Charlotte was born in 1864 in Welford, Berkshire, the daughter of Daniel and Sarah Griffin (nee Drewett) who were married in 1857 (marriage registered in Newbury).

Frederick George’s parents were married on the 5^th August 1889, in Plumstead, Kent.

The 1891 census records Frederick (28) and Charlotte (26), living at 132, Cage Lane, Plumstead.

They had two sons. Frederick George Twitching, born on the 15^th July 1891 and Walter Ernest Twitchin, born on the 29^th August 1892, both born in Plumstead.

Frederick George’s father died aged 30 in 1893, he was buried/cremated on the 9^th September, in Greenwich, London.

Frederick George Twitchin died aged 3, the following year on the 31^st October, in Newbury. He was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 3^rd November 1894.

The 1901 census records his mother Charlotte (36), living with her brother Eli Griffin (31), a Pork Butcher and his family, at 20 Church Street, Basingstoke, Hampshire. Walter (8) (recorded as Ernest) was living with his widowed grandmother Sarah Griffin (63), at 3 Stone Cottages, Newbury, Berkshire.

Charlotte remarried in 1904, in Basingstoke, Hampshire. Her 2^nd husband was John Henry Foster. They had a son, Reginald Henry, born c1906, in Basingstoke.

In 1911 Charlotte Foster (44), John Henry Foster (34), a Timber Merchant’s Wood Sawyer, Ernest Twitchin (18), a Grocer’s Assistant and Reginald Henry Foster (5), were recorded living in “Weston” May Street, Basingstoke, Hampshire.

John Henry, Charlotte and Reginald were still living in “Weston” May Street in 1921. By 1939 John Henry and Charlotte were living at 244 Worting Road, Basingstoke. John Henry was working as a Timber Inspector.

Charlotte died aged 89, in 1954, in Basingstoke.

Mrs P’s Page 166 Code P(B)2

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