BASING (Vault in Newtown Road cemetery) (W 134)
7 interments in total
George BASING (saddler) died 1866, age 73, Bur. 24 Nov 1866 (NRC account books)
Martha BASING (wife) died 1888, age 88, Bur. 21 apr 1888 (NRC account books)
John Edward BASING (son) died 1881, age 46, Bur. 24 June 1881 (NRC account books)
Richard BASING (son) died 1893, age 62, Bur. 30 aug 1893 (NRC account books)
James George MATHEWS (grandson) died 1948
Annie MATHEWS (wife of J G M) died 1902
Martha A W MATHEWS nee BASING (daughter of George Basing) died 1919
George Basing {bpt. Chieveley October 1793} set up a saddlery business in Mansion House Street (later 6 Market Place) Newbury probably in the 1820's. 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.
Mr R and Mrs J Willes
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