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Personal Details of Richard William Hewett

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Buried:	05/12/1939

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Burial Register

Name at death

Richard William Hewett

Age at Death

Burial Date

05 December 1939

Abode

The Mount, Newtown Road
Newbury

Official at Burial

J.E.Bolton

Comments

Burial Register Index

Book	1917
Page Number	222
Reccord Number	11369

Sources

Burial Register

Burial Register entry for Richard William Hewett
©Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Memorial Details

	From top of Headstone: In Loving Memory of/ my dear husband/ Richard William Hewett/ who fell asleep Dec. 1st 1939/ aged 87 years. / "Absent from the body/ and present with the Lord." 2 Cor. V,8. / Also of his wife/ May Flower Hewett/ who fell asleep through Jesus/ May 30th. 1954/ aged 78 years./ Eleanor Lucy Tryphena Wallis, July 3rd. 1881 aged 8 months./ Frances Flower Wallis Nov. 6th. 1882 aged 20 days.

Name on Memorial	Richard William Hewett
Date of death	01/12/1939
Age	87
Gender	Male

Memorial Type	Headstone plus kerbstones
Construction Material	Marble
Condition of memorial	Fair, inlaid letters
Pattison Location Code	P(A)8
Others named on memorial
May Flower Hewett
Eleanor Lucy Tryphena Wallis
Frances Flower Wallis

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Hewett stone

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Hewett and son , Ironmongers in Alton
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Biographical Information

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Richard William Hewett 1852-1939

Richard William Hewett 1852-1939

May Flower Hewett 1876 -1954

Richard was born in Newbury but spent his working life running an ironmonger shop in Alton Hampshire.He married his first wife Emily in 1879 at Brentford. Their son Alfred inherited and continued to run the ironmongers in Alton. Alfred and his wife, Ruth adopted Grace who was born in Sydney, Australia.

Richard was widowed in 1914.

In 1926 he married May Flower Wallis. May was the daughter of George and Sarah, of West Mills. George was a miller and farmer. Richard and May lived in The Mount, Newtown Road.

Richard died in 1939. May rented out part of The Mount to The Law Society in summer 1939 at the beginning of WW2. They moved their office to Newbury but like many other evacuees they went back to London as there had been no bombing there, The Phoney War. However, they left duplicates of their documents at The Mount and they remained there till 1935. Mr Mercado and his family stayed to look after the archive and stayed on after the war ended.

Ros Clow

31/03/2026

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