CFHS code : MG123
Parish : St Mary the Great
Inscription : In Loving Memory of ALFRED BAVEY d Sep 7 1932 ELIZABETH BAVEY d June 22 1957 LYDIA BAVEY d April 12 1907
Monument : Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.202155, 0.13815199 – click here for location
Monument
Inscription
Relationship: Mother, son and daughter-in-law
Alfred Bavey (14 March 1841 – 7 September 1932)
Alfred was the illegitimate son of Lydia and was baptised at St. Paul’s Church on 1 October 1848. Lydia worked as a dressmaker and he grew up at 57 Russell Street. Alfred worked as an auctioneer’s clerk and lived with his mother at 27 St. Mary’s Street from at least 1871 onwards. He married Lizzie Hills in 1923 when he was 82 years old and they moved to live at Woodside Knill, 19 Shelford Road where he died aged 91 years old.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bavey (née Hills) (5 October 1875 – 22 June 1957)
Lizzie was born in the village of Barrow, near Bury St. Edmunds and was the daughter of William and Elizabeth (née Peachey). William Hills was a gardener and the family moved with his job living in Elm, near Wisbech and Great Abington before moving to the Cemetery House, at the Ascension burial ground where he was the caretaker (1901). On the 1891 census Lizzie was marked as being an invalid. By 1911 her father had died and she was living with her mother at 52 Richmond Road and working as a dressmaker. After Alfred Bavey’s death she continued to live at 19 Shelford Road and died there aged 81 years old.
Lydia Ridgley (née Bavey) (1807 – 12 April 1907)
Lydia was born in Bourn and baptised there on 21 May 1807. She was the daughter of John and Sarah and had at least three children out of wedlock: Emma (1834-1875), Adelaide (1838-) and Alfred. She married John Ridgley (1793-1859) on 10 February 1855 at St. Paul’s Church. John was a widower who had farmed in Bourn and he died in April 1859 at Russell Street. Lydia then lived with her son Alfred and died just before her 100th birthday.
Sources:
Ancestry
CFHS transcriptions of parish & grave records
by Claire Martinsen
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