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Personal Details of Herbert John Finn

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Buried:	02/12/1922

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Burial Register

Name at death

Herbert John Finn

Age at Death

Burial Date

02 December 1922

Abode

50 Bartholomew Street
Newbury

Official at Burial

L.R. Majendie (Rector)

Comments

Burial Register Index

Book	1917
Page Number	074
Reccord Number	10190

Sources

Burial Register

Burial Register entry for Herbert John Finn
©Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Memorial Details

	Top tier of base: "My faith looks up to thee/ Thou Lamb of Calvary / Saviour Divine." // Middle tier of base:In Loving Memory of / Margaret Maria / wife of Herbert John Finn / died March 28th. 1901 / aged 43 years. / 1 Cor. 111 v.21,22,23. // Bottom tier of base: And of Herbert John Finn / born October 6th. 1842 / At Rest November 29th. 1922. / "Because I live, ye shall live also." / St. John XIV, verse 19 //

Name on Memorial	Herbert John FINN
Date of death	29/11/1922
Age	80
Gender	Male

Memorial Type	Large cross & angel statue,on 3 tiered base; 4 kerbstones
Construction Material	Limestone Letters
Condition of memorial	Very good
Pattison Location Code	ChNW19
Recorder's Notes	Herbert was a Brewer & Maltster from Ipswish, Her first married Elizabeth Mary Cullingham, daughter of a Brewer & Maltster empl 129 hands in Ipswich. They had 3 children When Elizabeth died, he married her sister in London when it was against the law, but a common practice, to marry your late wife's sister. He moved to Newbury where he was Brewer & Maltster at the Phoenix Brewery, Bartholomew St, assisted by his son, Dudley Charles. After Margaret died, he married Edith Joan in 1907. Source: Ancestry records.
Others named on memorial
Margaret Maria FINN

Newspaper Cuttings

The articles below have been transcribed from newspapers and magezines.

DEATH OF MR. H.J. FINN

Source:	Newbury Weekly News
Article date:	07/12/1922
Copyright:	Newbury Weekly News
Transciption:	MEMBER OF A WELL KNOWN BREWING FAMILY It is with regret that we record the death of Mr. Herbert John Finn, a member of a well-known Kentish family, which took place on Wednesday last after ten years of illness and complete inactivity. Before coming to Newbury, the deceased gentleman was a partner in the Steam Brewery, Ipswich. Here he took an active in the affairs of the town and in Church life, being a Church Warden for many years. He purchased the Phoenix Brewery in December, 1893, from the late Mr. Charles Nutley, was most successful in developing the business and well-known as an excellent judge of barley and hops. During his long period of illness, his son, Mr. Dudley Finn, has carried on the affairs of his business. THE FUNERAL The funeral took place on Saturday afternoon, the first part of the service being held at the Parish Church, and was taken by the Rector (the Rev. L.R. Majendie). The mourners were Mrs. Finn (widow), Mr. Dudley Finn (son), Miss Finn and Mrs. Somerset (daughters), Mr. Ray Finn, Mr. Ernest Finn, Dr. Somerset, Mrs. Dudley, Mr. Charles Barry, Dr. and Mrs. Allen Finn, Mr. Walter Money, Capt. And Mrs. Elsworth Stevenson, Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Barnes, Capt. Barnes, Mr. Horley, Mr. and Mrs. Giffard Wells, Mr. A.T. Watson, Mr. F.D. Bazett, Mr. Gold, Mr. H. Hopton,, Mr. Bywater, Mr. King, tenants from Hungerford and Newbury, employees at the Brewery. Among those present at the Church and at the graveside in Newbury Cemetery were Mr. E. Parfitt, Mr. V.C. Knight, Mr. W.H. Coldicutt, Mrs. Watts, Miss Oldfield, Mr. W.E.V. Tompkins, Mr. J.H. Spackman, Mr. W. Cooke, Mr. and Mrs. Addison, Mr. and Mrs. E. Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Whyman, Mr. J.W.H. Kemp, Miss Godwin, Mrs. Watts, Supt. Maunders, Sergt. Walker and many others. There were a large number of floral contributions listed. The body was enclosed in a shell with outer casket of unpolished oak and inscribed “Herbert John Finn, died November 29th 1922 aged 80.” The funeral arrangements were carried out by Messrs. Camp, Hopson and Co.

The Phoenix Brewery Newbury

Source:	Newbury District Field Club Transactions of 1972
Article date:
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Transciption:	Extract from an article on The Phoenix Brewery Newbury by JWS Jones and AJ Taylor - Newbury Museum Historical Group Included in The Newbury District Field Club Transactions of 1972 *Established at 50 Bartholomew Street in 1841 by William Nutley, the Phoenix Brewery became one of 10 brewers operating in the town of Newbury by 1870.* It was also known as Nutley’s Steam Brewery due possibly to its long association with the Nutley family, first William then Charles managing the business. The latter sold out to Herbert John Finn in 1893.
	This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

Biographical Information

The articles below contain information about Herbert John Finn.

Herbert John Finn

Herbert was born in 1843 in Lydd, Kent. He moved to Ipswich to train as a brewer and maltster at the Ipswich Steam Brewery under Charles Cullingham. In 1872 he married Elizabeth Cullinham and they went on to have three children: Cordelia, Marion and Dudley. They lived at 22, Lower Brook Street. Charles made him a partner in the Brewery.

During this period he was active in the church being a churchwarden and carrying out other civic duties. Then tragedy struck. Elizabeth died aged only 38 in 1882. Her death certificate states that death was caused by jaundice, hepatitis and Weil’s disease.

It was common in those days for unmarried sisters to move in and help when a widower was left with children to care for. Three of Elizabeth’s sisters are listed in the census as governesses. However it was against the law for a widower to marry his dead wife’s sister (Marriage Act 1835). It was also against Canon Law.

In 1888 Charles Cunningham decided to retire and sell the Ipswich Steam Brewery in its entirety. Two of his sons were also partners. The brewery and all its tied houses and cottages were sold to the Hon Ranulph Tollemarche for the fantastic sum of £65,800. Lord Tollemache had sold two portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds to raise the funds for this venture. The brewery later became well known as Tolly Cobbold brewery.

Herbert Finn and his children moved back to his origins, Lydd in Kent. In 1889 he married one of Elizabeth’s sisters, Margaret Maria at Lambeth, far from those who knew them. In 1891 they are living as a family as lodgers to Robert and Ellen Jones in Lydd.

In 1893 Herbert bought The Phoenix Brewery in Newbury. The family moved into 50, Bartholomew Street, Phoenix House and were still living there when Margaret died aged 43. The angel was placed there in her memory. As soon as he took over the brewery Herbert made a lot of changes. He converted the beer-house into offices and the malt-house into a store for grain and bitter. He moved the malting process to Kings Road.

He was a very successful brewer and ran the business until his death in 1922. He married again in1907, a local woman, Edith Joan Smith, 23 years younger than him. She was present at his funeral. His name was added to the angel memorial he had erected to his second wife Margaret Maria.

Author: Ros Clow
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Newbury and District Field Club vol 12 no 2 1972 Article on Phoenix Brewery

see Newbury library, West Berks Museum or contact Friends of Newtown road Cemetery

Other Resources

Herbert John Finn has featured in dramas performed by the Friends.

Residents Resurrected

First performed: 30/10/2015
Author: Ros Clow

The third production in 2015 “Residents Resurrected” was held in October using the sexton and the Grim Reaper as links between four monologues and one duologue, the Grim Reaper calling up spirits on Halloween. This time we put on three performances at the Phoenix Centre but later three of our characters, William Corden The Younger (Painter to Queen Victoria), Sarah Louisa Hopson (whose baby died in the Workhouse) and Herbert Finn (master at the Phoenix Brewery) reprised their roles in the cemetery in June.

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