CFHS code : AL391
Parish : St Andrew the Less
Inscription : In Affectionate Memory of SUSAN BRIGGS d May 22nd 1867 in her 91st year also SARAH WESSON b Oct 21 1866 d Feb 27 1899
Monument : Headstone
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
The headstone stands on the right of this family group in the parish of Andrew the Less. It is located just south of the north path that leads from the centre path to the east path. Some of the inscription is now illegible.
Inscription
In Affectionate Memory of SUSAN BRIGGS d May 22nd 1867 in her 91st year
Also SARAH WESSON b Oct 21 1866 d Feb 27 1899
Relationship: Grandmother and granddaughter
Susan Briggs (1777 – 22 May 1867)
Susan was born in Histon, Cambridgeshire and married Richard Briggs. Richard was a hairdresser and they lived in Petty Cury where they brought up their 10 children who were all baptised in the parish of St Mary the Great – Richard (1803-1810), Jane Susan (1804-1826), Benjamin Charles (1806), Susan Frances (1807), Arthur Richard (1809-1812) Richard (1810), Mary Ann (1812), Philip (1813-1815), Maria Elizabeth (1815), Thomas (1817-1818).
Richard died in April 1821 at the age of 52 and would have been buried in the churchyard of St Mary the Great.
Susan then ran a tobacconist shop on Petty Cury and later a grocery store on Regent Street (1841). In the 1851 census she was living at 37 Glocester St and described as an annuitant. By 1861 she had moved to live with her daughter Maria Elizabeth Wesson at 47 Fitzroy Street. Susan died there aged 90 years old.
Sarah Wesson (21 October 1866 – 27 February 1899)
Sarah was the youngest daughter of Thomas and Maria (née Briggs) Wesson and grew up at 47 Fitzroy Street where her father ran the Wesson Brewery. She did not marry and died at Fitzroy Street aged 42 years old.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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