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Buried:	26/01/1928

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Burial Register

Name at death

George Withers

Age at Death

Burial Date

26 January 1928

Abode

Collindene, Clifton Road
Newbury

Official at Burial

G.H.C. Barley, Vicar of Baulking, Berks

Comments

Died at Newbury District Hospital

Burial Register Index

Book	1917
Page Number	122
Reccord Number	10570

Sources

Burial Register

Burial Register entry for George Withers
©Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Memorial Details

	Headstone: In loving memory / of/Mary Ann / wife of George Withers / who passed away May 16th 1922 / aged 66 / Also of May / daughter of the above / who passed away April 7th 1889 / aged 17 months / Thy will be done / Also of George Withers / who passed away on Jan 23rd 1928 aged 72 / At Rest.

Name on Memorial	George WITHERS
Date of death	23/01/1928
Age	72
Gender	Male

Memorial Type	Headstone & kerbstones
Construction Material	Sandstone
Condition of memorial	Mostly readable but flaky near the bottom of the headstone
Pattison Location Code	CH9 (C)
Others named on memorial
Mary Ann WITHERS
May WITHERS

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George Withers
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Biographical Information

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George Withers

GEORGE WITHERS

Here is an old photograp of George Withers’ grocer’s shop – also called his Provisions Store or Tea Warehouse – at 19 Northbrook Street in Newbury, now the left-hand side of Tesco Metro. I have always been rather interested in this picture as my great grandmother was one of the widespread Withers family from Enborne ad Newbury. This George Withers (1856-1928), however, does not appear to be one of them.

George was the son of a Guildford butcher and his acnestors seem to be traceable as residents in Twickenham and elsewhere in Greater London, with no obvious Berkshire connection at all. George started his working life, perhaps with the help of his father, setting up a grocer’s shop at 28 Church Street in Brighton (which seems now to be a bridal shop). Soon after his father’s death in 1888 however, presumably his inheritance allowed him and his wife of two years, Mary Ann Sheryer (1856-1933) to move to 5 Northbrook Street (now Boots) in Newbury. Is that her in the doorway? Did George already know that the family name was well-known and trusted in the town, I wonder? He and Mary Ann raised two daughters there (two others died young) but, in 1902, shifted the shop up the road a few doors to No. 19. The couple eventually retired to ‘Collindene’ 2 Clifton Road, sometime before 1991. They are buried in Newtown Road Cemetery.

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