Reference
MON1
Title
Monumental inscriptions transcribed by A. Weight Matthews between 1907 and 1916. According to a note in one of the volumes Weight Matthews numbered his notebooks regardless of county, hence the gaps in the numbers of these volumes as they are all the Bedfordshire volumes as held by the Society of Genealogists. MON1/1 and MON1/2 were photocopied for the County Record Office by Mrs H.M. Allen of Stevington in 1983 and 1984. MON1/3-17 were photocopied by the Society of Genealogists in 1997. Indexed by Record Office Staff.
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1907-1916
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From: 1907 To: 1916
Admin/biog history
'Arthur Weight Matthews was born 23rd June 1865 at 14 East Street, Bridport, Dorset the son of William Laugher Matthews (born Birmingham 1836, jeweller, died Bridport 20 May 1898) by his wife Ann, nee Weight (1830-1872). Arhur married 27 June 1917 at Congregational Church, Herne Bay, Kent, Jane Elizabeth Pemberton.
He seems to have copied the Bedfordshire Inscriptiions between about 1907 and 1916 when he was living at 60 Rothesay Road, Luton, Bedfordshire. He was of that address when he joined the Society of Genealogists (as a corresponding associate) on 10 April 1912. He later moved to Gothic House, Hunters Forstall, Herne Bay, Kent and was there from at least 1924 to 1934. He last paid his subscription to the society in August 1934 and the following year his membership lapsed. There is no obituary for him in the Genealogists' magazine.
His family came from Warwickshire and after leaving Bedfordshire, between 1920 and 1932 he compiled three volumes of will abstracts of families called Matthews, which he gave to the Society. He submitted a birth brief with full details of his ancestry on 15 June 1920.
He died 8 August 1937 and ws then of Gothic House, Margate Road, Hunters Forstal, Herne Bay, Kent. Administration went to Jane Elizabeth Mathews, widow and William Bassett Mathews, Retired Minister of Religion, Effects £2,156.13s 3d.,
Information received from Anthony Camp and Monica Stevens of the Society of Geneaologists August 1997
On the 1891 census his occupation is given as engraver but by 1901 he is living on his own means. On the 1911 census he gives his occupation as 'private means (formerly copper plate engraver (ornamental)'.
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