PHILIP HAWE MASON, HIGH STREET, SWIINDON


The story of PHILIP HAWE MASON is very long.  Simple Grocer or millionaire international traveller?  More to come...
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Slab Sean flagon
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Pre 1868 small flagon
This very early Mason Flagon is held by the Swindon Museum and is dated as early as the mid 1850's.


It seems that the Mason business in Swindon was originally started in the name of Philip's older brother John Hawe Mason. By 1868 they officially swap their businesses between Newbury and Swindon.
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London Gazette 27th March 1868
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John H Mason bill 6th July 1868
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The Mason family grave in Devonport, New Zealand.