CFHS code : AL444
Parish : St Andrew the Less
Inscription : In Loving Remembrance of ARTHUR TOWNSEND CAMPS d Jan 18th 1875 aged 27 also of ALICE SOPHIA daughter of the above d Feb 21st 1871 aged 4 months also of MARY ANN CAMPS d Dec 24th 1918 aged 71
Monument : Headstone (carved cross)
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
Inscription
In Loving Remembrance of ARTHUR TOWNSEND CAMPS Who departed Jan 18th 1875. Aged 27 years.
“Watch therefore for ye know not in what hour your Lord doth come.
Also of ALICE SOPHIA daughter of the above who departed this life Feby 21st 1871. Aged 4 months.
Also of MARY ANN CAMPS who died Dec 24th 1918 aged 71 years.
“Peace Perfect Peace”
Arthur Townsend Camps (1847 – 18 January 1875)
Arthur was the second son of Thomas (1817-1869) and Altemira (née Townsend)(1817-1864) Camps. His father was a shoemaker, and he grew up at 33 Adam and Eve Row. Aged 14 Arthur was working as a servant for chemist Henry Brown Watson at 5 Petty Cury. He was working as a hall porter when he married Mary Ann Ogle on 31 March 1869 at Christ Church. They were living at the Hotel on Histon Road when their daughter was born in 1870, where Arthur was working as a waiter. In 1871 they were living on the Histon Road, and he was working at the Hoop Inn, where he was in charge of ‘boots’. He died at Albert Street aged 27 years old and his funeral was held on 22 January.
Alice Sophia Camps (November 1870 – 21 February 1871)
Alice died at Histon Road and was buried at Mill Road Cemetery on 24 February.
Mary Ann Camps (née Ogle) (1848 – 24 December 1918)
Mary Ann was born in Cambridge and was the eldest child of George and Ann Ogle. George was a master shoemaker, and she grew up with 8 siblings at 60 Fitzroy St. At the age of 13 she was already working as a seamstress. After she was widowed, she lived at 61 Fitzroy Street (next to her parents) with two of her brothers and nephew Walter Ogle and worked as a seamstress (1881). In 1901 she was living at Station Road and working as a cook for Charles and Louisa May. She then worked as a cook for Rev. Raymond Black and his wife Grace who lived at Stanhoe Rectory near King’s Lynn (1911) and died aged 71 years.
Sources
Cambridge Chronicle & Journal – Newspaper Archive
Parish burial records transcribed by CFHS
Ancestry
by Mary Naylor and Claire Martinsen
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