CFHS code : AL291
Parish : St Andrew the Less
Inscription : In Loving Memory of GEORGE ALBERT MARTIN d 15th July 1943 aged 76 also wife of the above LYDIA MARTHA MARTIN d 3rd April 1950 aged 82 also their daughter LYDIA MARTHA TATHAM d 18th March aged 88 also her husband JOSEPH EYRE TATHAM d 5th Feb 1978 aged 88 urn: L M MARTIN / d / April 3rd 1950 / aged 82
Monument : Headstone (half missing)/Kerb stones/Urn
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
Inscription
George Albert Martin (26 July 1865 – 15 July 1943)
George was born in Cambridge and baptised on 17 August 1865 at the Primitive Methodist Chapel. He was the son of George Albert Martin (1834-1875) and Jane (née Judge) (1838-1903). His father was a musician, his mother a college servant and he grew up at 1 Nelson Street. George Martin (Snr) died in 1875 and his widow married for a second time in 1878 to labourer Edwin Cash (1851-1936). In 1881 George was living with them at 74 Fitzroy Street and was also working as a labourer. He married Lydia Martin in 1886 and they had three children: Lydia Martha (1887-1975), Florence May (1896-) and another child who died as an infant. The family lived at 3a St. Matthew’s Street (1891-at least 1904) and 11 Stone Street (at least 1906 onwards). He died a few weeks before his 78th birthday, but his grave monument gives his age as 76 years.
Lydia Martha Martin (née Mountain) (30 June 1867 – 3 April 1950)
Lydia was the eldest daughter of Charles (1840-1885) and Anne Elizabeth (née Negus) (1835-). Her father was a paperhanger and she grew up at 64 Newmarket Road.
Lydia Martha Tatham (née Martin) (2 January 1887 – 18 March 1975)
In 1901 Lydia was working as a housemaid, but lived at home with her parents and younger sister Florence. By 1911 she was working as an assistant in a sweet shop and married Joseph Tatham on 2 August 1915 at St. Barnabas’ Church. The Cambridge Independent Press rana report of the wedding: ‘the bride was attired in a dress of ivory silk crepe lined with shadow line. She wore a veil and wreath of orange blossoms, and carried a shower bouquet of white carnations, white roses and white sweet peas. Her bridesmaid, Miss Florence Martin (sister of the bride) was attired in a dress of tussore silk, trimmed with cream lace, and a saxe blue silk waistband, and wore a black tuile hat, trimmed with cherries and saxe blue ribbon velvet. She carried a bouquet of mauve and white sweetpeas’. The couple had one son: Cecil Edwin (1917-1991). Joseph worked as a railway goods porter and they lived at 4 Stone Street (1939- at least 1966). Lydia died in Cherry Hinton aged 88 years old.
Joseph Eyre Tatham (25 November 1889 – 5 February 1978)
Joseph was born in Stanground, Peterborough and was the eldest son of Thomas (1862-1949) and Susannah (née Hughes) (1864-1929). His father worked on the railway as a goods checker, and the family moved to live at 68 York Street, Cambridge when Joseph was c.10 years old. Aged 21 he was working as a shop assistant in a grocery shop, but later worked on the railway like his father. He died aged 88 years old and his funeral was held on 14 February 1978.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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