Hannah Elizabeth Stone

1841-1874

Hannah’s birth was registered as Anna Elizabeth Benwell in Reading, Berkshire. She was the daughter of Francis William and Eliza Benwell (nee Slater) who were married in 1840, in Reading, Berkshire.

Her father Francis was baptised on the 23^rdJanuary 1811, in Kingsclere, Hampshire, the son of John and Phobe Benwell (nee Lovelock) who were married on the 22^ndJuly 1790, in Kingsclere. Francis died aged 31, in 1842, in Reading, Berkshire

Hannah’s mother Eliza was baptised on the 13^thSeptember 1807, in Rotherfield, Peppard, Oxfordshire, the daughter of Thomas and Martha Slater. Eliza died aged 67, in 1875, in Reading, Berkshire.

The 1841 census records Francis as Wm (29), a Labourer, Eliza (33) and a George May (8), living in St Lawrence, Reading, Berkshire

No record found for Hannah or her mother in 1851.

Hannah married Walter Hickman Marshall on the 7^thNovember 1860, at St Giles, Reading, Berkshire.

(Walter Hickman Marshall was born on the 3^rdJuly 1838, he was baptised on the 13^thAugust 1838, at St Stephen, Walbrook, London, the son of John Glaster (a Grocer) and Sarah Marshall (nee Hickman) who were married on the 16^thApril 1833, at All Hallows the Great, London)

In 1861 Hannah Marshall (19) was working as a Dressmaker, she was visiting her mother Eliza (53), in St Lawrence, Reading, Berkshire. Her mother Eliza who was working as a Housekeeper, for a Jane Buncombe (63). Hannah’s husband Walter (23), an Engine Maker’s Machinist was recorded living in St Mary’s Hill, Newbury, with his widowed father John Glaster Marshall (56), a G.W.R. Station Master, his sister, Jessie (19) and a house servant.

Hannah was widowed in 1861. Walter died aged 23. (Death registered in Newbury) He was laid to rest on 27^th December, in the London Road Cemetery, Reading.

Hannah remarried the following year, in Basingstoke. Her 2^nd husband was Frederick Stone.

(Frederick Stone was born c1837, in Greenham, Berkshire, the son of Thomas and Mary Ann Stone, (nee Axton). (Mary Ann Axton married John Burrows on the 10^thJune 1827, at St Martin in the Fields, Middlesex.  She was widowed in 1829. Thomas and Mary Ann Burrows were married on the 21^stDecember 1829, at St Mary, Islington. Thomas was a widower when he married Mary Ann. His 1^st wife was Ann Whittaker).

Frederick and Hannah had the following children (all born in Newbury):

Frank Benwell, born 1863

Annie Maria Eliza, born c1865

Harry Slater, born c1870

The 1871 census records Frederick (33), a Brush Maker and Tobacconist, Hannah (29) and their sons, Frank B. (8) and Harry S. (1), living at 96, Northbrook Street, Newbury. (Later census records record Frederick as a Brush Maker)

Hannah died aged 32, on the 28^thDecember 1873, (cause of death, consumption) she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 2^ndJanuary 1874. ***

Frederick after Hannah’s death:

Frederick remarried on the 19^thNovember 1876, at St Michael, Rochford, Essex. His 2^nd wife was Catherine (aka Kate) Popplewell.

They had the following children (All born in Newbury):

Sydney James, c1878

Arthur Edward, c1881 (died aged 24, in 1905)

Edith Isobelle Kate, 1883 (***died aged 7 weeks, buried in the Newtown Road Cemetery, on the 24^thFebruary 1883, with her father’s 1^st wife, Hannah Elizabeth Stone)

Catherine Beatrice Gilberta, c1885

Winifred Nellie, c1888

In 1881 the family were living in Northbrook Street, Newbury. By 1891 they had moved to Shaw Crescent, Newbury. Frederick and Catherine continued to live at 25 Shaw Crescent until they died.

Frederick died aged 86, in 1924 and Catherine died aged 83, in 1931 (both were buried in Speen, Berkshire.)

Newbury Weekly News

Dated 1^st January 1874

STONE – Dec. 28, of consumption, at 96 Northbrook-street, Newbury, Hannah Elizabeth, wife of Frederick Stone, aged 32.

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