CFHS code : AG308
Parish : St Andrew the Great
Inscription : headstone ILM of my husband WALTER JARMAN BEATES d December 30th 1943 aged 81 also of ELLEN CAROLINE BEATES d March 29th 1949 in her 86th year and ALICE KATE daughter d April 7th 1964 aged 73 kerbs ELIZABETH JARMAN d Nov 12th 1906 aged 79 also of EMMA JARMAN d Sep 14th 1910 aged 81
Monument : Headstone/Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.203082, 0.13661592 – click here for location
Monument
This fallen headstone set within kerbstones is located to the west of the west path towards the north of the parish of Andrew the Great. It may be hidden by bramble or long grass but is directly opposite a small tree on the east of the path. The headstone, with attractive carving, is propped up on the south kerb, the north kerb has fallen. Most of the inscription of metal letters is intact. The inscription for Emma has suffered some damage and the north kerb has fallen since CHFHS recorded the inscription for Elizabeth.
Inscription
headstone
In Loving Memory of my husband WALTER JARMAN BEATES
Who departed this life December 30th 1943 aged 81years
Also of ELLEN CAROLINE BEATES died March 29th 1949 in her 86th year
And ALICE KATE daughter died April 7th 1964 aged 73 years
north kerb – fallen
ELIZABETH JARMAN d Nov 12th 1906 aged 79
south kerb
Also of EMMA JARMAN who died Sep 14th 1910 aged 81 years
Walter Jarman Beates (29 April 1862 – 30 December 1943)
Walter was born in Oxford, the son of stone carver Benjamin (1829-1874) and Martha (née Jarman) (1826-1881). He was baptised at St. Gabriel’s Church, Pimlico on 16 September 1868 when he was six years old, when his parents had Walter and his three siblings baptised on the same day. He grew up in Birxton and married Caroline Gadd on Christmas Day 1886 at St. John’s Church, Walworth. Walter worked as a plasterer and the couple had two children: Walter (1889-) and Alice Kate (1891-1964). Both children where born in Cambridge, and the family lived at 52 Norfolk Street (1891) and then 5 Edward Street (at least 1901 onwards). By 1939 he had retired from work and was living at home with Caroline and daughter Alice. He died at home aged 81 years old.
Ellen Caroline Beates (née Gadd) (5 April 1863 – 29 March 1949)
Known as Caroline, she was baptised Ellen Clara Beates at St. Matthew’s Church, Brixton on 31 May 1863. Caroline was the daughter of Joseph and Caroline Gadd and grew up at Cumberland Place, Brixton. Her father was a plumber/glazier and her mother was a ‘mangler’ (laundress). She died at 5 Edward Street.
Alice Kate Beates (28 February 1891 – 7 April 1964)
Alice worked as a dressmaker and lived with her parents at Edward Street until their deaths. She died at the house she had lived in for over 60 years, aged 73 years old.
Elizabeth and Emma Jarman, were Walter Beates’ maternal aunts.
Elizabeth Jarman (c.1827 – 12 November 1906)
Elizabeth was the daughter of John and Sarah Jarman and was born in Ely. She was baptised there on 31 October 1827. She lived with her sister Emma on the High Street in Ely, where they worked as milliners/straw bonnet makers (1871/1881). They sold their business in April 1884 advertising it in local newspapers as: ‘To Milliners and Others. To be disposed of, an old-established business, in High Street, Ely, for many years successfully conducted by two ladies’. It is thought that the sisters later moved to Cambridge, and Elizabeth died at 107 Newmarket Road.
Emma Jarman (1829 – 14 September 1910)
Emma was also born in Ely and died at 2 Brunswick Terrace.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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