CFHS code : AS83
Parish : All Saints
Inscription : Sacred to the Memory of / BERNARD CECIL BRADLEY / d Sept 26 1928 age 19 / also STANLEY CHARLES BRADLEY / d Dec 16 1928 age 25 / In the going down of the sun and in the morning we’ll remember them / also CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH BRADLEY d April 17 1972 age 89 / also CHARLES THOMAS BRADLEY d Feb 11 1959 age 82
Monument : Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.203561, 0.13696089 – click here for location
Monument
This large set of kerbstones, which cover at least 2 plots, in the parish of All Saints, are located 7 rows from the west wall and 1 row from the north wall under a fir tree. The west kerb is much larger than the others and might be considered a headstone. The east kerb has fallen, the inner kerbs are broken and the flower holder has slipped from its plinth. It has remained hidden under bramble for many years which may account for the freshness of the grey marble and the preservation of the metal letters.
Inscription
large raised west kerb
Sacred to the Memory of BERNARD CECIL BRADLEY who died Sept. 26th 1928 aged 19 years.
Also STANLEY CHARLES BRADLEY who died Dec. 16th 1928 age 25 years.
In the going down of the sun and in the morning we’ll remember them.
South kerb
Also CHARLES THOMAS BRADLEY died Feb. 11 1959 age 82 years
North kerb
Also CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH BRADLEY died April 17 1972 age 89 years
Bernard Cecil Bradley (1909 – 26 September 1928)
Bernard was the youngest son of Charles and Charlotte Bradley and grew up at 81 Vinery Road (1911), 20 Ross Street (1914), 144 Mill Road (1920) and Snaefell, 76 Coleridge Road. He died at home aged 19 and notices of his death in newspapers included the words ‘the grief is great, the shock severe, to part with one we love so dear’. His funeral was held on 1 October at the Mill Road Wesleyan Church. The hymn ‘Abide with Me’ was sung and as the cortege left the church, the ‘Dead March in Saul’ was played. Mourners at the funeral incldued the junior bursar, chief clerk and member of the office starff at Trinity College, which suggest Bernard might have worked in the offices of the college.
Stanley (Stan) Charles Bradley (22 June 1903 – 16 December 1928)
Stan was Charles and Charlotte’s eldest son and was born in King’s Lynn. He was baptised at St. John the Evangelist, King’s Lynn on 15 July 1903 and worked in the Railway District Superintendant’s office. He died at Coleridge Road aged 25 years old and his funeral was held on 20 December. Amongst the mourners was his fiancee Ivy Stubbs (1904-1991), who left a wreath at the graveside which read ‘in ever loving memory of my dear Stan, from his sorrowing Ivy’.
Ivy married Charles Taverner (1903-1992) in 1933 and they had one son.
Charlotte Elizabeth Bradley (née Bayes) (26 June 1882 – 17 April 1972)
Charlotte was born in Kings Lynn and was the daughter of John Skedding Bayes and his wife Charlotte Elizabeth. John Bayes worked as a boiler maker and Charlotte grew up on Wood Street in Kings Lynn.
She married Charles Bradley on 25 February 1903 at St. John’s Church, Kings Lynn and the couple had three sons: Stanley Charles, Wilfred Leonard (Len) (1905-1984) and Bernard Cecil. Charles worked as a railway guard (1911) and later as a station inspector (1939). By at least 1927 the family had moved to live at Snaefell, 76 Coleridge Road and Charlotte died there in 1972.
Charles Thomas Bradley (25 April 1876 – 11 February 1959)
Charles was born in March, near Ely and was the son of Thomas and Ellen. Thomas Bradley worked as a railway engine driver, and Charles also worked on the railway his whole life. In 1901 he was lodging in Heacham, Norfolk and married when he was 26 years old. Charles died at Addenbrookes Hospital in 1959.
Charlotte and Charles’ other son Len Bradley lived at 76 Coleridge Road with his parents and wife Dorothy. After his parents died he continued to live at the same address, so the house was lived in by one family for over 57 years.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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