CFHS code : AL78
Parish : St Andrew the Less
Inscription :In Affectionate Memory of HARRIETT CLUTTON b July 7 1810 d Jan 1st 1888 also of JOHN GARRARD husband of the above b May 21 1814 d Feb 11 1888
Monument : Headstone
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.203988, 0.13769852 – click here for location
Monument
East of the central path
Inscription
In Affectionate Memory of HARRIETT CLUTTON born July 7th 1810. Died January 1st 1888.
Also of JOHN GARRARD husband of the above born May 21 1814 died February 11th 1888.
Harriett Clutton (née Brooks) (7 July 1810 – 1 January 1888)
Harriet was the daughter of William and Mary and was baptised in Cambridge on 18 October 1810. She married John Clutton on 15 September 1836 in Barnwell and they had at least seven children: George (1838-1908), John Partridge (1839-1839), Esther Partridge (1841-1922), John Partridge (1845-1845), Edwin Partridge (1848-1848), Caroline Harriet (1849-1850) and Charles (1853-1853). John was a baker/corn merchant and the family lived at 32-33 East Road, where he operated his business from. Harriet died at home aged 71.
John Garrard Clutton (21 May 1814 – 11 February 1888)
John was born in the village of Brinkley, fifteen miles east of Cambridge and five miles south of Newmarket and was the daughter of John and Esther (née Crame) Clutton. John was baptised in Brinkley on 14 May 1814 and grew up in the village where his father was an innkeeper/farmer. John worked as a baker, and also supplied corn/flour. In 1848 he won the tender for supply of bread and flour to the both the workhouse workhouse and paupers of the ‘first district’- ‘bread of the best seconds flour, at 4 1/2d. the 4lb loaf; flour of the same quality, 1s 8d per stone’. He still had the contract to supply the workhouse in 1864, but a complaint was levied with regard to the quality of the bread. The Chairman of the Union told him that ‘the outsides were corroded and were mouldy, but it was thought that that arose from the bread being covered up, so that the steam could not escape’. John told the Board that he thought that loaf in question was several days old and not a newly delivered one, and therefore the complaint was unwarrented. Furthermore he objected to his bread being described as ‘sour’ in local newpapers. During the course of the questions it was established that John Clutton had delivered the Master of the Workhouse 20 loaves on one single day the previous week. The Board were unhappy ‘What could he want with 20 quarterns of bread in his cupboard? Did he intend having a party, or was he going to give the paupers a treat?’. The matter was dropped when the Clerk announced ‘the Master is bound to account for the whole he receives and has done so’.
John died at 33 East Road age 74. The freehold to the business premises was sold at auction a few months old and was said to consist of an ‘important frontage of 35 feet 2 inches to the East Road, a depth of 88 feet 6 inches and a back entrance enlocsed by a pair of folding gates over a roadway of 11ft 6 inches in width from School House-lane, and forms a compact freehold site, especially suitable for a Corn or Coal Merchant’.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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