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Burial Information

Name on burial register:

Ernest Gilbert Kimber

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Age at death:

Date of burial:

25 November 1939

Abode at death:
(according to burial register)

Bartholomew House, Newbury

Burial register information:

Book number:	1917
Page number:	221
Record number:	11365

Official at burial:

E, H. Stenning

Source of information:

Burial Register

Memorial Details

Name on Memorial:		Ernest Gilbert Kimber
Date of death:		21 November 1939
Age at death:		79
Gender:		Male

Memorial type:		Large Headstone with leaves and cross on, kerbstones and corners, book
Construction Material:		Sandstone

Inscription:		Headstone: In / loving memory of / Frances Barnard beloved wife of Ernest Gilbert Kimber / who died Feb 16th 1910 aged 50 years / Until the day dawn / Also of / Ernest Gilbert Kimber / husband of the above / who died Nov 21st 1939 / in his 80th year /// Book is a separate memorial which may or may not be related - In loving memory of Gwendolin, Thomas, Kathleen, Leslie, Mary, children of George and Mary Austin

Condition of memorial:		Headstone readable. Book unreadable - Separate memorial which may or may not be related to Kimber
Pattison location code:		CH3(B)
Other Notes:

Date monument recorded:		27 June 2017
Monument recorder:		SK

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Other people list on this memorial

Frances Barnard Kimber

Gwendolin Austin

Thomas Hutchins Austin

Kathleen Austin

Leslie Austin

Mary Austin

Obituaries and Newspaper announcements

Grave of the month

Article source:		Researched By Michaela Peters - FNRC - November 202
Date of source:		01 November 2025
Copyright:		©

Transcription:

GRAVE OF THE MONTH/NOV 2025

Ernest Gilbert Kimber 1860-1939

Ernest was born in 1860 at Coombe in Hertfordshire. His parents were Richard Owen Kimber and Susannah Gilbert Peaty. His father
Richard had a 350 acre farm and he was 1 of 12 children.
In 1885 Ernest married Frances Barnard Lily in Newbury. They had 2 children, Gilbert and Elsie.
Ernest ran a shop called ‘Kimbers Grocery and Provision Merchants’, informally called ‘Kimbers Corner’ on the corner of Pound Street and
Bartholomew Street, which he managed from 1906-1939. Formerly it was a branch of Messrs. Church Bros., for whom he was the manager.

In 1910 his wife Frances passed away. His son Gilbert married and moved away to Bristol and his daughter Elsie stayed at the family home at Bartholomew House with her father Ernest.
Elsie went on to become the first woman Mayor of Newbury since the borough was created in 1596. She was elected in 1932. Ernest passed away at his home from cerebral apoplexy (stroke) and Aortic Stenosis on 21st November 1939. Following her father’s death Elsie
took over the business until 1953.

This obituary entry is awaiting verification.

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