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JOHN PHILLIPS
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Memory of
JOHN PHILLIPS
who died July 6th 1873
Aged 51 years
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Why do we mourn departing friends
Or shake at death's alarms;
'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends
To call them to his arms.
John Phillips was born in 1822 to William and Hannah (nee Gregory). He was baptised at Boldre church in 1826 aged 4 with brothers Thomas (8) and Noah (a baby).
Comyn's notebooks show William and Hannah lived in Beaulieu Rails (BRN23a) with sons William and George where the property now called The Saeter is sited.
They had moved further south in the village by the 1840s when the Tithe map was created.
William and Hannah subsequently had another ten children together. John was born in 1822, their fourth child. He was christened at Boldre church by the Rev Charles Shrubb on 19th March 1826 when he was four years old.
In 1841 the census list William, a farmer, and Hannah living with 8 children at East End. John, aged 19, has left the family home. There are no records of him remaining in Beaulieu/East Boldre/Exbury area so he has clearly moved away.
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There is a John Phillips, working as a shoemaker in Hordle, living with what would appear to be three brothers who do not match any of Hannah and William’s other children.
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A John Phillips born in Boldre in ~1814 was serving in the Royal Marines in 1841.
The censuses do not yield any other candidates and there is no mention of him in the chapel records either. More work needed…
John was buried by the Rev Burt at the chapel on 10th July 1873. His burial register entry states that he had lived in East End. The epitaph is from a hymn written in 1707 by Isaac Watts.
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