CFHS code : AL566
Parish : St Andrew the Less
Inscription : In Loving Memory of MARY ANN BROOKS d Nov 20th 1884 aged 72 also of HANNAH FLETCHER d March 1st 1858 aged 41 and of GEORGE BROOKS d July 14th 1862 aged 41
Monument : Headstone
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
This headstone stands in the shade of a very large tree 3 rows west of the central path as it bends towards the Norfolk St. gate. The top is carved in a trefoil shape with inset open book The inscription is weathered but still legible.
Inscription
In Loving Memory of MARY ANN BROOKS Who died Nov 20th 1884 aged 72 years
Also of HANNAH FLETCHER Who died March 1st 1858 aged 41 years
And of GEORGE BROOKS Who died July 14th 1862 aged 41 years
Relationship: siblings
Mary Ann Brooks (6 September 1812 – 20 November 1884)
Mary was the daughter of George and Elizabeth (née Newman) and was born in Exning, near Newmarket. She was baptised in Exning on 9 September 1812. Mary worked as a seamstress/dressmaker and lived at 23 Prospect Row (at least 1861 onwards). By 1871 her occupation was noted as ‘income from houses’. She died at Prospect Row and her funeral was held on 24 November.
Hannah Fletcher (née Brooks) (c.1815 – 3 March 1858)
Hannah was born in Exning and married William Fletcher (1818-) at St. Andrew’s Church on 18 August 1844. William was a police constable and the couple had at least three sons: James (1844-), George (1848-) and Thomas Richard (1850-1879). William was posted to Mepal in 1851 and the family lived there for at least two years. Hannah died at Prospect Row on 3 March aged 43 years and her funeral was held on 9 March. Both the date and age recorded on the grave monument is incorrect, maybe with the passage of time the actual information was forgotten.
George Brooks (1821 – 14 July 1862)
George was baptised in Exning on 17 June 1821. In 1841 he was living in Exning with his widowed mother and working as a labourer. He moved to Cambridge to lodge with the Holden family at 5 Portland Place, and worked as a warehouseman for Messrs’ Millers, Market Hill (1851). In 1861 he was living with his sister Mary at Prospect Row and was still working as a warehouseman. George died at Eden Street and was buried at Mill Road Cemetery on 18 July.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
Parish buriala records transcribed by CFHS
by Claire Martinsen
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