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'''George Hathaway''' (1867-1948), was a dancer with the Bledington Morris Dancers during the 1880's, who played melodeon and tin whistle, but whose tunes were never recorded.<BR>[[File:GeorgeHathawayBledington.jpg]]<BR>
(George Hathaway holding the Bledington Morris dancers' heart-shaped collecting tin)<BR>

George Hathaway was born in Bledington, early in 1867, to a family who originated from Guiting Power, although his father, John, was born at Kineton. After marrying Jane Stayt, John & Jane moved frist to Lower Swell, where their first two children were bron, then to Bledington, where the remainder of their children, including George were born.
George married a girls from Bledington, Amelia Hall in 1892 and the couple moved in 1890 first to Stow-on-the-Wold and then Church Icomb, where they lived with their four children and would have known fiddler [[John Mason]].<BR><BR>
By trade, George was an estate carpenter, until ill-health forced his retirement. When he was interviewed in the years just before his death, he remembered with affection the dancing, and recalled that the fiddler, ([[Charles Benfield]]), being the most importsnt member of the team, was always given the first ten shillings before anyone else had a picking. The remainder was divided, each dancer getting probably about nine shillings.
George died in Cheltenham hospital in 1948.<BR><BR>
Paul Burgess