Personal information about Percy Bezant West

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Memorial Details

Name on Memorial:
   PERCY BEZANT WEST
Date of death:
   01 October 1899
Age at death:
   17
Gender:
   Male
   
Memorial type:
   Headstone
Construction Material:
   Sandstone Engraved
     
Inscription:
   Headstone: In Ever Loving Memory of / Percy / fourth son of William & Ellen West / died October, 1st. 1899 / aged 17 years. / "Even so, Father, for so it seemeth / best in thy sight. / Also of Stanley / youngest son of the above / who entered into Rest / July 10th. 1908 / aged 21 years. / Interred at Englefield Green Cemetery. / "With Christ which is far better." / Also of William, father of the above / who died Aug. 2st. 1909 aged 63 years. / Also of Ellen. wife of the above / who died Dec.30th 1933 / aged 84 years. / At Rest. // Footstone: P. * W. / 1899 / S.W. 1908 / W. W. 1909 / E.W. 1933 // (See note re 3)i
     
Condition of memorial:
   Good but some blistering of face & extensive lichen on MI.
Pattison location code:
   P(D)10
Other Notes:
     N.B. Ellen's death date on the headstone is incorrect. It should be 1932. Percy & Stanley West were 4th & youngest sons of Gardener William West & Ellen nee Beszant who had 5 sons & 3 daughters. William was born in Corsham, Wilts, the son of a farmer, & Ellen was born in Trowbridge, Wilts to a gardener. They were married in May 1872 in Corsham and had arrived in Newbury by the 1881 census. They first lived in Shrewsbury Terrace off Buckingham Rd then moved to Craven, & later Berkeley, Tces in Berkeley Rd. William always worked as a Gardener (non-domestic). Percy was living in Berkeley Rd at the time of his death from peritonitis & heart failure (not from eating mushrooms & nuts as first stated in the NWN). Stanley was recorded as a Packer of Baking Powder in the 1901 Census when only 2 sons remained at home. William's address is recorded as 7, Berkeley Rd in the Burial record. Ellen was living with her single son Arthur, a baker, in Staines in the1911 census and is recorded in the NRC Burial records as being brought from 2, Winchcombe Rd (now A339) to her burial in Jan. 1933. Sources: Ancestry records; NRC Bur Recds.
     
Date monument recorded:
   02 May 2021
Monument recorder:
   EAC
 
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Other people list on this memorial

STANLEY WEST
WILLIAM WEST
ELLEN WEST

Cemetery Accounts Record

The information below is derived from the Newbury Cemetery company Accounts ledgers.

Name: Percy Bezant West
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Newbury Cemetery Company Accounts Books.
Book: 02 Page: 109
©Newbury Town Council.
Originals held at the Berkshire Record Office.
Date of Burial: 04 October 1899
Whence Brought: Newbury
Where and how Buried: Unconsecrated Common Internment
By Whom Buried: Reverend T Neville
Accounts Remarks:
   
Accounts Book Number: 02
Accounts Book Page Number: 109
   
Recorder's Comments: On FBMD

 

 

Obituaries and Newspaper announcements

Percy West
Article source:    Newbury Weekly News
Date of source:    12 October 1899
Copyright:    © Newbury Weekly News

Transcription:

  

PERCY WEST

THE LATE PERCY WEST. - We are requested to state death in the case mentioned last week from eating mushrooms and nuts, was really the result of peritonitis and heart failure.

Newbury Weekly News 12th October, 1899. 


 

Mrs. P. page 171 - P(D)10 - died 1st October, 1899, aged 17
Described as 4th son of William and Ellen West.
Inscriptions also to bro Stanley* (youngest), died 10th July, 1908 aged 21:

 

also father WILLIAM died Aug. 21st, 1909 aged 63 yrs.

 

and his wife ELLEN who died Dec. 30th 1933** aged 84 years.

 

 *  Stanley doesn’t appear to be buried in NRC

 

** Typo? she was buried 2nd Jan. 1933
This obituary entry is awaiting verification.
 
 
Percy Bezant West
Article source:    Newbury Weekly News and General Advertiser
Date of source:    05 October 1899
Copyright:    © Newbury Weekly News

Transcription:

  

PERCY BEZANT WEST

A CASE OF DEATH after a short illness occurred on Sunday to a lad named Percy West, aged 16, living with his parents in Berkeley-road.

The Illness which proved fatal, is supposed to have been brought on by the eating of a quantity of nuts and mushrooms, and it may be a caution to boys not to indulge too plentifully in such a mixture.

The funeral took place yesterday at the Cemetery. and being a scholar in the Primitive Methodist Sunday School, a wreath was sent by the scholars and teachers. The classmates of the deceased, his teacher, and others connected with the school followed, in addition to the friends, and two hymns were sung over the grave.

 

Newbury Weekly News and General Advertiser - Thursday 05 October 1899
This obituary entry is awaiting verification.
 
 
Percy Bryant West
Article source:    Newbury Weekly News
Date of source:    05 October 1899
Copyright:    © Newbury Weekly News

Transcription:

  

WALTER WIGMORE

WIGMORE – Sept 30, at Pembroke road, Newbury, Walter, infant son of Robert wigmore, aged 10 months
This obituary entry is awaiting verification.
 
 

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