CFHS code : AG340
Parish : St Andrew the Great
Inscription : In Loving Memory of ELEANOR (NELLIE) BEVIS d 13.3.1912 aged 44 ELIZABETH BEVIS d 15.6.1919 aged 75 also of THOMAS BEVIS d 28.1.1914 aged 75
Monument : Headstone/Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
These kerbstones are located towards the north of the parish of Andrew the Great west of the west path. There are corner posts and a flower holder but no visible headstone. It was covered in ivy in 2014. This area is now left to grow wild and although only a metre or so from the path it is hidden from view. The closest monument is Twinn AG341
Inscription
In Loving Memory of ELEANOR (NELLIE) BEVIS d 13.3.1912 aged 44
ELIZABETH BEVIS d 15.6.1919 aged 75
Also of THOMAS BEVIS d 28.1.1914 aged 75
Eleanor (Nellie) Bevis (1867 – 13 March 1912)
Nellie died at 13 Willis Road aged 44 years old.
Elizabeth Bevis (née Coulson) (1844 – 15 June 1919)
Elizabeth was baptised on 15 August 1847 at St. Clement’s Church and was the daughter of Thomas (1815-) and Susan (née Allensbey)(1815-1872). Her father was a journeyman baker and she grew up at Northampton Street. She then worked as a servant for college librarian Edward Traylen, who lived at 2 Coronation Street (1861). She married baker/confectioner Thomas Bevis in the summer of 1866 and they had six children: Eleanor (Nellie), William (1868-1946), Thomas Alfred (1871-), Ada (1873-1928), Arthur (1874-1954) and Lizzie Coulson (1876-1968). They lived at 28 Clarendon Street where Thomas ran a bakery named ‘Coulson and Bevis’ with Thomas Coulson (Elizabeth’s brother – who had married Thomas’ sister Esther Bevis). By 1901 Thomas had retired and eldest son William took over the business. Elizabeth and Thomas moved to 13 Willis Road with their daughters Nellie and Lizzie. Elizabeth died at home aged 75 years old.
Thomas Bevis (1838 – 28 January 1914)
Thomas was the son of Edmund and Elizabeth and was born in Swanton Morley, Norfolk. He was baptised on 17 June 1838 and aged 12 was working as an agricultural labourer, like his father. He later moved to Cambridge and worked as a baker.
In April 1882 Thomas and his business partner Thomas Coulson were summonsed for selling bread of the incorrect weight. Joseph Wright, the inspector of weights and measures had weighed various loaves and found them varying in weight. The bakers defense was that some of the loaves were ‘fancy’ loaves and therefore exempt from being a certain weight, but the Mayor rejected this and fined the men 20s and costs. In April 1896 Thomas Coulson and Thomas Bevis were again summonsed ‘to recover the apportionment due from them to the Corporation of the amount expended in making up Great Eastern Street’. The men were ordered to pay the outstanding amount of £14, and 2s, with interest of 5% to accrue if not paid.
Thomas Bevis died at Willis Road aged 75 years.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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