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Personal Details of George Basing

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Buried:	24/11/1866

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Burial Register

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Memorial Details

	North slope of copestone: Sacred to the Memory of/ George Basing/ who died November 17th. 1867/ in his 74th year. / Also Martha Basing/ died April 16th. 1888/ aged 88. South slope of copestone: Also John Edward Basing/ who died June 18th. 1881/ in his 47th year./ Also Richard Basing/ who died September 6th. 1893 aged 62 years. South face of pedestal: James George Mathews died Nov. 2nd. 1948. East slope of copestone: Also Annie Mathews/ who died/ June 21st. 1902/ aged 46 years. East face of pedestal: Martha A.W. Mathews/ who died May 16th. 1916/ aged 87 years.

Name on Memorial	George BASING
Date of death	17/11/1866
Age	73
Gender	Male

Memorial Type	Copestone on pedestal
Construction Material	Sandstone with engraved letters
Condition of memorial	Poor, some lettering sheared off
Pattison Location Code	W134
Recorder's Notes	George Basing: Memorial says he died in 1867, but it was 1866 in Cemetery accounts and Free BMD.
Others named on memorial
Martha BASING
John Edward BASING
Richard BASING
James George MATHEWS
Annie MATHEWS
Martha A.W. MATHEWS

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	George Basing
Date of burial	24/11/1866
Whence brought	Newbury
Where & how buried	Consecrated - Family Vault
By whom buried	Rev'd. J.L. Randall
Account Entry	Book 1 - Page 88

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

Biographical Information

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George Basing

GEORGE BASING

BASING (Vault in Newtown Cemetery W 134)

7 interments BASING George (saddler) died 1867

“ Martha (wife) died 1888

“ John Edward (son) died 1881

“ Richard (son) died 1893

MATHEWS James George (grandson) died 1948

“ Annie (wife of J G M) died 1902

“ Martha A W (daughter of George Basing) died 1916

George Basing (bpt. Chieveley October 1793) set up a saddlery business in Mansion House Street (later 6 Market Place) Newbury probably in the 1820s. His younger sons

John and Richard were employed in the shop making saddles and harnesses, the eldest son George went to London, became a timber merchant and died in Isleworth in 1873. In the 1881 Census James George Mathews (son of George’s daughter Martha) was working in Chute, Wiltshire as a harness maker. (He was brought up in Newbury and went to St. Bartholomew’s Grammar School) At the height of the horse-drawn era, James had his own shop in the Broadway. When the motor car took over from horses, James retired and in 1927 bought No. 1 Donnington Square and the businesses were amalgamated at 46 Cheap Street as Basing and Mathews. The last directory entry is in 1963, by 1965 it was Poulter, estate agents.

Sources 1881 Census, parish registers, directories and the obituary in the Newbury Weekly News for J G Mathews.

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