Image ID: 11094

Mr John Reddish, Assistant Sexton, Newark Cemetery, Newark, c 1901-11

Courtesy of Jill Campbell

Newark Cemetery
Newark on Trent
England

John Reddish (1847-1931) is pictured in Newark cemetery, where he was assistant sexton from about 1900. He is pictured with the white donkey and its cart. He was born in Lowdham, one of nine children born to Stephen and Ann Reddish. Stephen is described on the census as a stocking frameworker knitter (a trade very common in that area). Upon arriving i Newark he worked as a maltkiln worker, later a maltkiln stoker, working in the maltings along Northgate. He married Mary Ann Harrison, and they had four children, one of them my grandfather James Thomas.

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