Friends of Hastings Cemetery

BH F01

Abraham Shrewsbury was born in Chatham, Kent, England on 25 Aug 1823 to Edward Shrewsbury and Eliza Jane Billet.

A Marriage Feast for to about 40 persons, including the employees of Messrs. Alderton and Shrewsbury, was given on the 14th of May, at the Anchor Inn, on the occasion of Mr. Shrewsbury’s marriage, at Greenwich. to- Cecilia Sarah Roberts born 1829

Children, all born in Hastings:

 Edward James Shrewsbury 1852–1924

 Richard Howell Shrewsbury 1855

 Sarah Cecilia Shrewsbury 1856-1915

 Arthur Roberts Shrewsbury 1858-1940

 Ernest Hastings Shrewsbury 1860-1876

 Albert William "Bertie" Shrewsbury 1862-1932

 John Howard Shrewsbury 1863-1938

 Edith Conquest Shrewsbury 1866-1961

 Ellen Kate Shrewsbury 1869–1956

 Frederick George Shrewsbury 1871-1944

  

Richard Howell

Second son of

ABRAHAM & CECILIA SARAH SHREWSBURY

WHO DIED 3O Nov. 1855

AGED ONE YEAR AND 2 MONTHS

AND LIES BURIED IN THE CHURCHYARD

OF

 ALL SAINTS HASTINGS

ERNEST HASTINGS

FOURTH SON OF

АВrАНАМ & СЕCILIA SARAH SHREWSBURY

WHO WAS DROWNED AT CAVERSHAM NEAR READING

JULY 22.1876

IN HIS SEVENTEENTH YEAR

SARAH CECILIA SHREWSBURY

WHO DEPARTED LIFE 12TH JUNE 1915

AGED 59 YEARS

ELDEST DAUGHTER OF ABRAHAM & CECILIA SARAH SHREWSBURY

INTERRED IN HOLLINGTON

CHURCHYARD HASTINGS

BH F02

1858 - Alderton and Shrewsbury, ironmongers and iron founders, 70 and 71 George street, and 1b Robertson street

1861 - The Annual Supper to Messrs Alderton & Shrewsbury, iron founders, took place at the Cutter inn on the 25th of November, the anniversary of the patron saint, St. Clement.

1867 - Alderton & Shrewsbury, ironmongers, iron founders, smiths, bell-hangers, gas fitters, braziers, tinplate workers, stove & range manufacturers & bar iron merchants, 69 & 70  George Street, & 1B,  Robertson Street

1868 - 41 cast iron boundary posts to mark the line of the Hastings Parliamentary Boundary were ordered from Alderton & Shrewsbury of Rock-a-Nore, Hastings at a cost of 22 shillings each

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF

 ABRAHAM SHREWSBURY

BORN AUGUST 25 1823

AT REST MARCH 28 1912 AGED 88 YEARS

AND OF

CECILIA SARAH SHREWSBURY

 WIFE OF ABRAHAM SHREWSBURY

WHO DIED JANUARY 1914 AGED 85 YEARS

1851 Great Exhibition - an improved stove from Messrs. Alderton and Shrewsbury

1857 - St. Clement, the Patron Saint of the Forge was duly honoured by Messrs. Alderton and Shrewsbury giving a supper to twenty-four of their workmen.

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