CFHS code : HS27
Parish : Holy Sepulchre
Inscription : In Loving Memory of JAMES ALEXANDER b July 7 [1837] d July [7][1908] also [MARGARET ALEXANDER] [b Jan 17 1888] d Aug 10 1889 In Loving Memory of FANNY ALEXANDER d July 16 1911 age 64
Monument : Stone cross (broken)
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.202425, 0.13763811 – click here for location
Monument
This stone cross, now sadly fallen and broken, is roughly 8 rows east of the central path on the northern border of the parish of Holy Sepulchre. The inscriptions of metal letters are badly damaged and some are virtually illegible. Research was used to make sure the inscriptions recorded by CFHS were correct.
Inscription
west face
In Loving Memory of JAMES ALEXANDER
born July 7 1837 died July 7 1908
north face
Also MARGARET ALEXANDER
born Jan 17 1888 died Aug 10 1889
east face
In Loving Memory of FANNY ALEXANDER
died July 16 1911 aged 64 years
James Alexander (7 July 1837 – 7 July 1908)
James was born in Cliddesden, Hampshire (a village just south of Basingstoke) and baptised there on 6 August 1837. He was the son of agricultural labourer Alexander Alexander and his wife Amelia and aged 24 was also working as an agricultural labourer. He married Fanny Weston in Sulham, Berkshire on 4 November 1880 and the couple moved to Cambridge to run Lodging Houses at 15 Jesus Lane (1881), 61 Park Street (1891/1901) and then 7 Warkworth Street. The couple had two daughters: Henrietta (1884-1962) and Margaret (1888-1889). James died at Warkworth Street aged 71 years old.
Margaret Alexander (17 January 1888 – 10 August 1889)
Margaret died at Park Street aged 17 months.
Fanny Alexander (née Weston) (1847 – 16 July 1911)
Fanny was born in Sulham, Reading and was the daughter of James and Kezia – Kezia died when Fanny was 2 years old and she grew up with her agricultural labourer father and siblings in Sulham. Aged 26 she was working as a housemaid to Rev. George Deane, the Vicar of Bighton, near Winchester, which is perhaps where she met James Alexander. In April 1911 she was still running a Lodging House from Warkworth Street with the help of daughter Henrietta, and died in July the same year.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
Parish burial records
by Claire Martinsen
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