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Personal Details of Sophia Ewing

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Buried:	23/08/1862

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Birth

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Death

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Burial Register

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Only three of the five burial register books still exist as far as we know and these are held at the Berkshire Record Office.
Stillborn children were not recorded in the burial register, only in the cemetery accounts.

Memorial Details

	From top of monument: In Affectionate Remembrance of/ Sophia, relict of/ Josia Ewing/ who departed this life/ Aug. 19th. 1862/ aged 74 years./ "Forever with the Lord."/ Also of Mary Ewing/ daughter of the above/ who died may 16th. 1900/ aged 80 years. So he giveth His beloved sleep. Footstone: SL 1862/ML 1900

Name on Memorial	Sophia Ewing
Date of death	19/08/1862
Age	74
Gender	Female

Memorial Type	Headstone and footstone
Construction Material	Limestone
Condition of memorial	Engraved; fair some subsidence to the north
Pattison Location Code	LS(H)32
Others named on memorial
Mary Ewing

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	Sophia Ewing
Date of burial	23/08/1862
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Unconsecrated - Private Grave
By whom buried	Rev'd. B. Beddow
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 62

Accounts Entry for Sophia Ewing
© Newbury Town Council
Reproduced with kind permission

Biographical Information

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Sophia Ewing

Sophia Ewing
She was born in 1789 in Goldalming, Surrey to John and Jane Hackman (nee Tickner) and baptised on 6 September 1789 at St. Peter & St. Paul, Godalming. She married Josiah Ewing at St. Leonard, Shoreditch, on 4 February 1810, in the presence of Philippa Ewing and Samuel Brown. In the 1841 census she is living with her son Joseph in Tabernacle Walk, Shoreditch, and by 1851 she is living with her daughter Mary in Swaffham, Norfolk. They moved to Newbury where she died on 19 August 1862 aged 74 years. She was buried on 23 August 1862.

Sources: Baptism record dated 6/9/1789 St. Peter & St. Paul, Godalming; Marriage record dated 4/2/1810 St. Leonard, Shoreditch, London; 1841/1851/1861 census; Death Index 3Q 1862.
Mrs. P. Code LS (H) 32, page 150.

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