CFHS code : HT160
Parish : Holy Trinity
Inscription : In Loving Memory of ANN ELIZABETH BARNES d 29 April 1929 aged 68
Monument : Cherub on plinth (broken)/Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
Inscription
Ann Elizabeth Barnes (née Smith) (1861 – 29 April 1929)
Ann was born in Ely, believed to be the daughter of William and Ann Smith. William was a publican and farmer and she grew up at the Railway Hotel, Ely (1871). Her father later farmed 140 acres, working as a farmer and cattle dealer also in Ely. Ann married Walter Barnes (1859-) in 1887 in Ely and they had four children: Pioneer Sergeant William George (1890-1917), Herbert Walter (1893-1971), Ethel Ann (1895-1982) and one further child who died as an infant. In 1891 the family were living at Grunty Fen, four miles outside Ely where Walter was the station master.
What happened to Walter is not known. In 1901/1911 Ann was running a Lodging House at 11 Devonshire Road, and although the census marks her as being married, Walter was not living with her. She later moved to live at 36 Maid’s Causeway and died at the Priory Nursing Home, Newmarket Road.
Sources:
Ancestry
Parish burial records transcribed by CFHS
by Claire Martinsen
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