CFHS code : AG105
Parish : St Andrew the Great
Inscription : In Affectionate Memory of GEORGE OFFORD d April 22nd 1904 aged 65 EMILY MATILDA OFFORD wife of the above b Sep 18th 1853 d Nov 17th 1934
Monument : Headstone/Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.202833, 0.13694059
Monument
In the southern section of the parish, close to the east west path.
Inscription
In Affectionate Memory of GEORGE OFFORD who died April 22nd 1904 aged 65 years
“Thanks be to God who giveth to us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ”
EMILY MATILDA OFFORD wife of the above born Sep 18th 1853 died Nov 17th 1934
George Offord (1839 – 22 April 1904)
George was born in Sudbury, Suffolk and was baptised at St. Peter’s Church, Sudbury on 19 May 1839. He was the son of William and Mary and his father worked as a maltster. George grew up in Acton Green, Sudbury (1841) and then 9 Butts Road in Bury St Edmunds (1851). At the age of 22 he was lodging in Bury St. Edmunds and working as a stonemason.
By at least 1867 he was living in Cambridge as in February of that year he was working on as a stonemason on the new works at St. John’s College Chapel. He was a witness when Thomas Tressler, another stonemason fell to his death and testified at the subsequent inquest.
By 1881 he was married to Emily and living at 2 Earl Street, and in 1891 had moved to live at 5 New Square. He later became a publican and was running the White Swan, Butt Lane in Great Wilbraham in 1901. He died at the White Swan aged 65 years old.
Emily Matilda Offord (née Symmonds) (18 September 1853 – 17 November 1934)
Emily was born in London but nothing is known of her early life. After she was widowed she went to work as a housemaid for Reginald and Dorothy Hicks (1911). She died at Temple End in Great Wilbraham aged 81 years old.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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