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Borrow Family continued
Fanny died aged 87 in 1960 after a long illness; and is buried in Hastings Cemetery. She was recalled by Rev. Greenfield ‘as a little old lady with a wrinkled face and dark eyes, dressed in black bombazine and carrying a reticule’; her last years ‘a time of physical suffering serenely borne.’
She drew a picture of 117 High Street for Historic Hastings (Mainwaring Baines) and apparently attended art school at some point. Two paintings of Holmhurst St Mary’s “are by Sister Christine C.H.F.'s artschool friend, Fanny Borrow.” www.umilta.net/holmhurst2.html [halfway down the page]
Sidney’s death is recorded on a red marble vase on the family plot, together with those of his wife (married Islington 1901) Sarah Borrow, nee Chapman – 1873 – 1969 and their daughter, Violet Winifred Skyrme, nee Borrow, 1902 – 1987.
You can see W H Borrow paintings online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/william-
And more at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery.
(With thanks to Laurie Taylor, Hastings Library – Local History, and Local History Room at HMAG)
Other Borrow records include:
Marriage Sep 1888 BORROW Thomas Hastings
Births Jun 1889 Borrow George Leonard Hastings
Deaths -
Deaths Jun 1936 Borrow Thomas 70 Hastings
Deaths Dec 1943 Borrow Catherine J 75 Hastings
