CFHS code : AL216
Parish : St Andrew the Less
Inscription : In Loving Memory of ERNEST BUTCHER d Aug 16th 1922 aged 47 also his wife ANNIE BUTCHER d April 27 1963 aged 86
Monument : Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
Inscription
Ernest Butcher (1875 – 16 August 1922)
Ernest grew up at 222 Newmarket Road, the son of tailor William Butcher (1843-) and Hester (née Carter) (1852-1937). In 1891, aged 15 Ernest was working as a grocer’s assistant. He married Annie Watts in 1897 and they had three daughters: Florence May (1899-1975), Violet Maud (1902-1973) and Doris Hatty (1906-1963). The family lived at 108 New Street and Ernest worked as a corn merchant’s assistant (1901) before moving to 52 Fitzroy Street (1911) and South Street (at least 1918 onwards). In 1911 he was working as a labourer in a jam factory. He served as a rifleman with the Royal Irish Rifles in the 1st World War and died aged 47 years old.
Annie Harriett Butcher (née Watts) (7 July 1876 – 27 April 1963)
Annie was born in Grantchester, the daughter of George and Harriet Watts. Her father worked on the railway, and she grew up in Grantchester and Fitzroy Street (1891). After she was widowed, she lived at South Street until at least 1934. In 1939 she was living at 51 Langham Road with daughter Doris, who worked in a food factory. Annie died aged 86 years old, and her daughter Doris died in September of the same year at 147 Mowbray Road.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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