CFHS code : PL267
Parish : St Paul
Inscription : side 1 In Ever Loving Memory of ROSETTA ANN the dearly loved wife of JOHN A BROWNE d Feb 11 1920 aged 77 also of JOHN A BROWNE d Dec 5 1936 aged 96 side 2 In Loving Remembrance of MIRIAM ELIZA BROWNE d Aug 21 1869 aged 20 side 3 In Loving Memory of ROSE EARL eldest daughter of JOHN & ROSETTA BROWNE d Jan 28 1933
Monument : Column/Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
Inscription
east face
In Ever Loving Memory of ROSETTA ANN the dearly loved wife of JOHN A BROWNE who died Feb 11 1920 aged 77 years
“Peace perfect peace”
Also of JOHN A BROWNE died Dec 5 1936 aged 96 years
side 2
In Loving Remembrance of MIRIAM ELIZA BROWNE d Aug 21 1869 aged 20
side 3
In Loving Memory of ROSE EARL eldest daughter of JOHN & ROSETTA BROWNE d Jan 28 1933
Rosetta Ann Browne (née Cockle)(1842- 11 February 1920)
Rosetta was the daughter of farmer Thomas Cockle and his wife Rebecca (née Gooby) and was born in the hamlet of Hillrow, near Haddenham south west of Ely. She was baptised in Haddenham on 9 October 1842 and married John Browne at the same place on 13 December 1864. When they married John was a farmer of 140 acres and they lived at East End in Earith, Huntingdonshire (1871). The couple had six children: Rosetta Earl (Rose) (1865-1933), Frederick Earl (Fred) (1866-1959), Emily (1868-1940), Minnie Cockle (1869-1956), Henry John (Jack) (1872-1955) and Kate Ellen (1874-1957). By 1881 the family had moved to the Hopbine, 11 Fair Street in Cambridge where John was a publican and commission agent. They later moved to 159 Sturton Street (1891/1901) where he was documented as being a corn/hay and general agent. In 1911 John and Rosetta were living at 24 Riverside with youngest daughter Kate, and Rosetta died at home at the age of 77. Her funeral took place on 14 February 1920.
John Aaron Browne (1840 – 5 December 1936)
John was born in Bluntisham cum Earith and baptised there on 17 May 1840. He was the son of John Aaron Browne and Anna (née Earl), grandson of Thomas and Ann (née Carter) Earl. His father was a farmer in Earith, and John took over the running of the farm when his father died in 1857. He continued to live at 24 Riverside after the death of Rosetta and died at the ageof 96 years.
Miriam Elizabeth Browne ( 1848 – 21 August 1869)
Miariam was John Browne’s sister and was also born in Earith. She moved to Cambridge with her mother Anna to live at 19 Hills Road and died there aged 20 years old. Notices of her death in local newspapers read ‘much respected by all who knew her’.
Rosetta (Rose) Earl Browne (1865 – 28 January 1933)
Rose was the eldest daughter of John and Rosetta Browne and was baptised in Bluntisham cum Earith on 15 November 1865. In 1901 she was working as a cook for Charles and Emily Booth in Maida Vale, London. She moved with the Booths to live at the Old Manor House, Northgate near Margate (1911) where she was documented as being a parlourmaid. Rose died at Addenbrookes Hospital aged 67 years old.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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