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- Find a Grave website Memorial ID 200982957
Section IX... Grave Q2
Notes from website
Emily Maud Marriott Basset (nee Fry) was born in Kibworth Beauchamp, in Leicestershire in 1866, the daughter of Dr Augustin Barber Fry and his wife Mary Ellen (Marriott). She was their eldest child born just before their move to Yorktown. She was baptised at Kibworth on the 12th of September 1866.Their mother died after the birth of her sister Mary?s birth in 1872 and was buried in Yorktown.
In 1875 her father married Emily Elizabeth Burrell the eldest daughter of James Fitchett Burrell and his wife Elizabeth (nee Hewett), who was daughter of the Lord of the manor of Frimley. Her father died tragically young after contracting diphtheria after treating a patient on the 10th July 1878 at York Town and was buried at St Michael?s Church. Their step-mother brought up her husband?s four children, including Emily at Frimley, where they lived in a house known as Grovefields.
Emily married the Rector of Frimley, William Basset on the 19th of January 1886. They had two children. Their eldest son Geoffrey, born in 1887 took after his father and became a Vicar. Their youngest son Richard is buried with them. He served in the Royal West Surrey Regiment for virtually all his life.
In 1910 Maud wrote ?A Short History of Frimley Parish?. Based on a lecture her husband gave on the old parish registers it also contains items on the murder of the former Rector George Hollest in 1850 and reminiscences of a Prize Fight held on Frimley Common.
Her husband retired as Rector due to ill-health in April 1922 and they moved to a house they named Frimley Cottage in Streatley. Her husband died there in 1925.
Emily was living at their cottage in Streatley just prior to her death at Corunna House in Aldershot on the 31st of May 1935. She was buried at St Peter?s on the 3rd of June 1935.
Research: Mary Ann Bennett
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Johnson Gibson Family History
1867 - 1935 (68 years)