CFHS code : BE36
Parish : St Bene’t
Inscription : In Loving Memory of MAUDE CATHARINE CLARKE d July 23 1880 aged 1 year 9 months also EDWARD CHARLES CLARKE d [December 10th] 1913 aged 77 reverse also of LUCY CLARKE d Nov 24 1925 aged 84
Monument : Stone cross/Kerb stones
Above information amended from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.202408, 0.13706655 – click here for location
Monument
This small broken cross is located 5 rows west of the central path towards the southern border of the parish of St Benet’s. There is a nice decorative scroll detail that survived the breaking of the cross. The carved inscription is very badly eroded and we were unable to read much of it. The kerbstones are still in place but were not uncovered. This area is often overgrown.
Inscription
east face
In Loving Memory of MAUDE CATHARINE CLARKE Who fell asleep July 23 1880 aged 1 year 9 months
Also EDWARD CHARLES CLARKE d [December 10th] 1913 aged 77
west face
Also of LUCY CLARKE d Nov 24 1925 aged 84
Maude Catharine Clarke (4 October 1878 – 23 July 1880)
Maude was the infant child of Edward and Lucy Clarke.. She died at the family home in Benet St..
Edward Charles Clarke (1836 – 10 December 1913)
Edward was the son of Charles and Elizabeth and was baptised at St. Andrew the Great Church on 11 September 1836. His father was a bricklayer and he grew up at 36 Thompsons Lane. Aged 24 Edward was working as a college cook and married Lucy Galer in the parish of Andrew the Less on May 7th 1861. The couple had ten children: Lucy Annie Eliza (1862-1929), Emma Elizabeth (1864-1931), Edward Charles (1866-1936), Laura (1869-), Eliza (1870-), Robert William (1871-1941), Jessie (1874-1957), Frances (1875-), Maude Catharine (1878) and Frederick (1882-).
Edward worked as a cook and the family lived at 10 John St, ‘The Elm Tree’, Eden St, 17 Orchard Street (1871) and 8 Benet Street (1881/1891). 8 Benet Street was next to the Eagle Tavern, He and Lucy later ran a Lodging House at 47 Jesus Lane assisted by daughter Frances (1901/1911) and he died at 113 Mawson Road in 1913.
Lucy Clarke (née Galer) (c.1841 – 24 November 1925)
Lucy was the daughter of Robert and Emma and grew up on Thompsons Lane and then Eden Street. Her father was a labourer and her mother a college servant. She married Edward Clarke aged c.20 years old and died in 1925.
Sources:
Ancestry
CHFHS transcripts of parish records
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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