CFHS code : MG210
Parish : St Mary the Great
Inscription : In Loving Memory of MARY ELIZA AUTON died peacefully [2nd] March 1936 aged 50
Monument : Kerb stones/Flowerholder
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.202089, 0.13781224 – click here for location
Monument
Inscription
Mary Eliza (Eliza) Auton (née Corby) (1885 – 2 March 1936)
Eliza was born in Riddings, Derbyshire – a village midway between Alfreton and Ripley. She was the daughter of chimney sweep William Corby ahd Eliza (née Hickton) and married Charles Wallis Auton (1884-1970) in 1909 in Lincolnshire. Charles worked as a railway storesman and they had at least three children: Albert James (1910-2004), Blanche Maud (1912-1974) and Wallis (1920-2008). In 1911 the family were living in Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire but had moved to live at 18 Hope Street, Cambridge by at least 1919. In 1921 the family were living with their lodgers the Alexander Family – Walter Alexander was a disabled soldier, who was being retrained as a tailor under a Government scheme, his wife Florence and one year old daughter Hilda. Eliza died at home aged 50.
Charles Auton moved to live in Felixstowe and married Cissie Franklin (1898 -1978) there in 1949. He died in March 1970 aged 85 years old.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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