CFHS code : AS198
Parish : All Saints
Inscription : In Memory of my beloved parents CHARLES CROOK d Jan 20 1900 aged 68 also JANE CROOK d Jan 30 1912 aged 68
Monument : Obelisk (broken)
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
Standing six rows from the centre path, the monument has been restored.
Inscription
In Memory of my beloved parents
CHARLES CROOK
Who fell asleep Jan 20. 1900 aged 68
_____
Also JANE CROOK
Who fell asleep
Jan 30 1912 aged 68
Charles Crook (c.1832 – 30 January 1900)
Charles was the son of Robert and Ann Crook. Robert was a College Porter, and Charles was baptised at St Clements Church on 16th September 1832. By 1851 Charles was working as an errand boy, and living at home with his widowed father and brother James.
He married Emma Rooke in 1858 when he was 26 years old. They lived at 23 Park Street, and Charles worked as a college servant. He and Emma did not have any children, and she died on 25th February 1875 at Blue Lion Yard, St Andrew’s Street after what the newspapers reported as a ‘long and painful death’. She was 38 years old.
Charles then remarried to Jane, although the marriage certificate has not currently been located. They had one daughter: Martha Jane (1878-1955) and lived at 24 New Cut (1881) and then 32 Park Street (1891). Charles died aged 68 years old at home at 32 Park Street.
Jane Crook (c.1843 – 20 January 1912)
Jane was born in Redhill in Surrey. She married the widower Charles Crook and on census records is also shown as a college servant, the same occupation as her husband.
She was widowed at the age of 57 years old, and continued to live at 32 Park Street (1901) and then 55 Park Street (1911). By 1911 she was pensioned and her occupation is shown as ‘pensioned college servant’. She was looking after her eight year old grand-son Horace Victor Crook Bowman (1902-1988) in 1911. She died in 1912 aged 68 years old.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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