CFHS code : AG505
Parish : St Andrew the Great
Inscription : also In Loving Memory of LOUISE ETHEL LINCOLN d April 11th 1923 aged 39
Monument : Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.203037, 0.13711135 – click here for location
Monument
These kerbstones and corner posts, located in the northern section of the parish of Andrew the Great, are 8 rows along the east west path from the centre circle and 7 monuments north, or 13 rows from the central path. The adjoining plot is for J & E Lincoln. The monument is now largely covered in grass and ivy. Some of the metal letters in the inscriptions are damaged..
Inscription
In Loving Memory of LOUISE ETHEL LINCOLN died April 11th 1923 aged 39 years
Louise ‘Tot’ Ethel Lincoln (1884 – 11 April 1923)
Louise (known as Tot) was the daughter of James and Emma (née Ayres) Lincoln and grew up at 35 Sturton Street, where her father was a woodcarver. By the age of 16 she was a pupil teacher at St. Barnabas and received a second class for her first year exams in religious knowledge. For her third year exams, in 1903, she received a third class result for religious knowledge, and a certificate for ‘church history’.
By 1911 Tot was living with her sister Agnes and her family at 48 Montague Road, and working for Cambridge Borough Council as a certified assistant teacher. She taught at St Barnabas’ Church school, and later at Sturton Street and New Street Schools. She later went to live at 70 Timson Road, but caught tuberculosis and died tragically at the Bramblewood Sanitorium near Holt in Norfolk aged 39. Bramblewood was a private TB clinic for female patients. Its situation near the sea surrounded by pine trees and remote location was thought ideal for the highly infectious TB which swept across the UK at the time.
The coffin was brought back to Cambridge by a ‘motor hearse’ and her funeral took place on 16 April at the Cemetery chapel.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen with thanks for the extra information sent in by Simon Bull.
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