This grave was not recorded by the CFHS Survey.
Parish St Andrew the Great
Lat Lon : 52.202989, 0.13725542 – click here for location
Monument
The headstone, located in the parish of St Andrew the Great, stands 9 rows west of the central path north of the centre circle and 3 monuments south of the northern border of the parish. It is stable but badly eroded .
Inscription
In Loving Memory of Samuel Brown who died July 30 1898
…………………..Illegible …………….
Also of Rebecca [wife] of the above who died Jan 23 1927 aged 88 years
Samuel Brown (1836 – 1898)
Samuel Bridge was born in Balsham, the son of Charles and Mary Brown. Charles was an agricultural labourer who sadly died when Samuel was only 10. By 1851 he was working in agriculture and his mother was described. as a pauper. Samuel became a labourer and married Rebecca Stanford on December 25th 1858, at Holy Trinity church in Balsham. Their’s was one of 3 weddings at the church on Christmas Day. In 1861 they were living on the High St with their daughter Emma (1859) they had at least 5 more children – Mary Ann Eliza Jane (1861) Charles (1866-1866), Harriet Susan (1867), Charles William (1870) and Robert (1872).
By the 1891 census they had moved to Newnham in the parish of Mary the Less, Cambridge Samuel was still a labourer but heir 19 year old son Robert was working as a milkman.
Samuel was 63 when he died and was living in Blue Lion Yard, St Andrew’s Street, Cambridge.
Rebecca Brown (d 1927)
Rebecca was born in Teversham to Ann and James. Her father, a labourer, died when she was 7.
In 1851 she was living on the High St with her mother and 4 siblings. Her mother was receiving parish relief and Rebecca and her brother John were being schooled at home.
Rebecca was living at 14 Prospect Row, Cambridge, when she died.
by Mary Naylor
Sources
CFHS transcriptions of parish records
Family search