CFHS code : MG77
Parish : St Mary the Great
Inscription : In Loving Memory of FREDERICK JOHN CALDECOAT killed on Cherry Hinton Road 23 May 1927 aged 27 also his father TIMOTHY THOMAS d 30 Jan 1929 aged 71 also ELIZA wife of TIMOTHY THOMAS CALDECOAT d 30 May 1937 aged 77
Monument : Headstone/Kerb stones/Flowerholder
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.202205, 0.13786171 – click here for location
Monument
Inscription
Frederick John Caldecoat (1900 – 23 May 1927)
Frederick was the youngest son of Timothy and Eliza Caldecoat and worked as a whitesmith. He died as a result of a motor cycle accident on Cherry Hinton Road. He had been at a dance party, and had asked a ‘Miss Kathleen Violet Baker’ if he could see her home. Kathleen was riding on the back of the motor cycle when ‘it seems as if they crasked into something, the motor cycle skidded and went from under them’. Kathleen subsequently fainted and Frederick was thrown off the cycle receiving ‘severe brain injuries’ and was found unconscious. He was taken to Addenbrookes Hospital but died two days later, not having regained consciouness. His employer Mr Macintosh ‘had given him the highest possible character. During the time he was with Mr. Macintosh he was exceptionally brilliant’.
Timothy Thomas Caldecoat (c.1857 – 30 January 1929)
Timothy was born in Foxton and was the son of Timothy and Mary Ann Caldecoat. His father was a cordwainer/shoemaker, and he grew up at 23 Gold Street (1861) and then at High Street, West Wratting (1871). He later became a shoemaker like his father, and married Eliza Smith in 1877 when he was 20 years old. The family initially lived at 7 Staffordshire Terrace (1881), then at 39 Union Terrace (at least 1891 onwards), which was later renamed Mawson Road.
The couple had twelve children: Ada Eliza (1879-1952), Timothy Thomas (1881-1955), Edward George (1883-1952), Ellen Elizabeth (1885-1951), Alice Rose (1887-1973), William (1892-1959), Dorothy May (1894-1975), Grace May (1897-1960), Frederick John (1900-1927), Olive Maud (1902-1961) and a further two children who died as infants.
Timothy was a keen amateur gardener and won numerous prizes for his produce. In the Red Cross Horticultural Show of 1909 he won prizes for his stewing pears, plums and tomatoes. He also kept chickens and pigeons and won prizes for both at the Cambridge Good Intent Ornithological Society Show (1895). He died at Mawson Road in January 1929 aged 71 years old.
Ada Eliza Caldecoat (née Smith) (c.1860 – 30 May 1937)
Ada appears to have been known as Eliza throughout her life. She was born in Cambridge and was the daughter of bricklayer Robert Smith and his wife Caroline. She grew up at 7 Browns Yard, and married aged c.17 years old. She died aged 77 years old at 141 Coleridge Road.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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