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| All Saints Cemetery Maidenhead, Berkshire, UK. |
"In
Loving Memory
of
Arthur Richard Silver
Born Feb 19th 1874
Fell Asleep
August 8th 1906
~
Whosoever Liveth and Believeth In
Me Shall Never Die - St. John Chap 11. Ver26."
Arthur Richard Silver was born on 19th February 1874 in Maidenhead, Berkshire, the only son to parents Joseph Love Silver, a builder and church organist, and Eliza Mills.
Arthur can be first found on the 1881 Census aged 7, living with his parents and siblings in Fountain Cottage, Tittle Row, Maidenhead, Berkshire. Arthur is still living there in 1891 at the age of 14. His occupation is listed as being a builder's assistant.
In 1900 Arthur was selected to represent the Regiment of the 1st Life Guards (The Household Calvary) at the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia. The Slough, Eton and Windsor Observer reported as follows:
"Mr Arthur Silver, late assistant at Messrs. Stutchbury and Thompson's, High-street, Maidenhead, and son of Mr. J. Silver, "Avondale", All Saints' Avenue, is one of eight men chosen from the 1st Life Guards to represent that regiment on the occasion of the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia, Mr Silver is twenty years of age, (he was actually 26), and only joined the Army 1st March. The men selected are of splendid physique, of first-class education, and bear the highest character. Each man will be presented with £5, and are looking forward with delight to pleasant trip to the Antipodes." - Slough, Eton, and Windsor Observer, November 17th 1900.
1901 finds Arthur still living with his parents in Fountain Cottage at Tittle Row, Maidenhead Berkshire. On March 24th 1903 Arthur married Louisa Mary Hawker, the sister of his sister Kate's husband Charles Frederick Hawker. An announcement was placed in the Maidenhead Advertiser:
"Silver - Hawker
On March 24th, at All Saints' church, Maidenhead, by the Rev. E. J. G. Forse, M. A., Arthur Richard Silver, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Silver, of Altwood-road, Maidenhead, to Louisa, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Hawker, King-street, Maidenhead."
"Silver - Hawker
On March 24th, at All Saints' church, Maidenhead, by the Rev. E. J. G. Forse, M. A., Arthur Richard Silver, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Silver, of Altwood-road, Maidenhead, to Louisa, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Hawker, King-street, Maidenhead."
In 1904 Arthur and Louisa celebrated the birth of their daughter Dorothy Edna Silver. Sadly, Arthur was to pass away just two years later on 8th August 1906. An announcement was placed in the Maidenhead Advertiser on 15th August 1906:
"Sliver - On August 8th, at The Walnuts, Altwood-road, Maidenhead, after a short illness, Arthur Richard Silver, in his 33rd year."
Arthur's widow Louisa and his daughter Dorothy can be found in 1911 in running a boarding house at Thistledene, 9 Bourne Street, Eastbourne, Sussex
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Arthur's widow Louisa and his daughter Dorothy can be found in 1911 in running a boarding house at Thistledene, 9 Bourne Street, Eastbourne, Sussex
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