CFHS code : AL162
Parish : St Andrew the Less
Inscription : In Loving Memory of SAMUEL REYNOLDS d Feb 23 1902 aged 45 also MARY his wife d Aug 16th 1941 aged 85
Monument : Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
This set of kerbstones located in the parish of Andrew the less are a few metres west of the wall that borders the Gwydir St Industrial estate.They have been badly disturbed by the growth of a tree which has lifted the entire monument breaking the stones apart, however he inscriptions of metal letters have survived largely intact.
Inscription
In Loving Memory of SAMUEL REYNOLDS d Feb 23 1902 aged 45
Also MARY his wife who died Aug 16th 1941 aged 85 years
Samuel Reynolds (1856 – 23 February 1902)
Samuel was the son of John and Esther (née Harvey) and grew up at 16 New Street. John Reynolds was a labourer, and Samuel worked as the same. Aged 14 he was a labourer in a rope factory (1871) and married Mary Ann in 1878. They had at least six children: Mary Ann (1878-), Hannah Ruth (1880-), Florence Julia (1882-1973), Ernest John (1883-1913), Ethel Edith Jane (1885-1939) and Lillian (1888-1982). The family lived at 5 Broad Street (1881) and 7 Stone Street (1891 onwards). Samuel worked as a brewer’s labourer, then as a labourer for Cambridge Corporation and he died in Cambridge aged 45 years old.
Mary Payne (née Lander) (1856 – 16 August 1941)
Mary was born in Grantchester and baptised there on 8 March 1857. She was the daughter of Isaac and Eliza (née Tofts) Lander (also sometimes spelt Launder) and grew up at Moore’s Yard in Grantchester, where her father worked as a farm labourer. Mary is thought to have had a daughter named Florence Rose (1875-1963) prior to her marriage to Samuel Reynolds, who was raised in Grantchester by her parents. She married for a second time a few months after Samuel’s death to bricklayer’s labourer Charles Payne (1862-1937) and the couple continued to live at 7 Stone Street until Charles’ death in January 1937. Mary died at 30 Mawson Road aged 85 years old and was buried with her first husband.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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