WILLIAM PHILLIPS

IN

Memory of

WILLIAM PHILLIPS

Died Jan 3 1868

Aged 73.

--

Mortals weep not for me,

Your tears are all in vain.

I know the Redeemer lives,

And I shall rise again.

William Phillips was born in 1795 in Beaulieu Hampshire; his father, Benjamin, was 31 and his mother, Hannah (nee Jones), was 20. He was the second of their five children.

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William married Hannah Gregory on 23rd October 1813 at Beaulieu church. Together they had twelve children in 25 years. ​Written circa 1817, Rev Comyn's notebooks record them as living where the house called 'The Saeter' is now.

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A William Phillips was baptised and became a member of the chapel's congregation on 28th August 1841 but this is probably William's eldest son as other chapel records show that William Phillips moved to Ringwood in 1862.

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The 1841 census lists William's occupation as a farmer and he lived in East End with Hannah and 8 of their children.

In 1851, William is listed as an farm labourer and the couple have 5 daughters and 2 grandchildren living with them in Beaulieu Rails; daughter ​Ellen and her infant George and widowed daughter Martha Cooper and her daughter Mary Ann. 

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By 1861 their household on Scrubs Hill, East End is much smaller, just William, Hannah and 20 year old daughter Jane.

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William was buried at the chapel by the Rev John Bartlett Burt on 9th January 1868. The location of his grave within the chapel site is unknown.