CFHS code : BO38
Parish : St Botolph
Inscription : In Loving Memory of JESSIE MATILDA BARTON d Dec 6 1902 aged 33 also RALPH DONALD CHARLES BARTON d Feb [9] 1901 age 11 months
Monument : Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.202839, 0.13759945 – click here for location
Monument
This kerb stone set, in the parish area of St Botolph, is located in the centre circle, in the north eastern sector of the circle.
Inscription
[The transcription below is derived from the CFHS transcript:]
‘In loving memory of Jessie Matilda Barton died Dec 6 1902 aged 33’
‘Also Ralph Donald Charles Barton died Feb [9] 1901 age 11 months’
Jessie Matilda Barton (nee Haslop) (c.1869-1902)
Jessie was the daughter of John and Matilda Haslop and grew up at 4 Silver Street where her father was a butcher. She married Peterborough-born butcher John Thomas Barton (1867-1958) in 1896 and the couple lived at 53 Trumpington Street, Cambridge. They had one son, Ralph, who died as an infant. At the time of her death aged 33, Jessie was still at that address. She was buried on 12 December 1902.
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Ralph Donald Charles Barton (1900-1901)
Ralph was born March 1900 in Cambridge. He was presumably the son of Jessie and John Thomas Barton. He lived only eleven months. He was buried on 13 February 1901.
John Barton continued to live at 53 Trumpington Street until at least 1911, but then moved to Truro , Cornwall (1939). He died in Truro at the age of 91.
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Sources:
St Botolph: burial register
Census report 1901
By Ian Bent and Claire Martinsen