CFHS code : AL536
Parish : St Andrew the Less
Inscription : In Memory of MARY ANN the beloved wife of ELIJAH COE who after a long and painful affliction passed away February 5 1905 aged 68 also ELIJAH COE d August 9th 1925 aged 82
Monument : Headstone (broken)
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
This headstone, in the parish area of St Andrew the Less, is located to the east of the path that runs from the Norfolk Street gate to the south path. The headstone can become hidden when the grass is long. Most of the inscription is now illegible.
Inscription
‘In Memory of MARY ANN the beloved wife of ELIJAH COE
who after a long and painful affliction passed away February 5 1905 aged 68
also ELIJAH COE d August 9th 1925 aged 82’
Mary Ann Louisa Coe (née Mynott) (1836 – 5 February 1905)
Mary was the daughter of William (1799-1867) and Mary (1806-) Mynott. Her father was a shoemaker and she grew up at Fitzroy Street (1851/1861). After her parents’ deaths, she lived with her sister Anne at 115 Fitzroy Street and the sisters had a shoe manufacturing business called ‘A. and M.A. Mynott’. Their partnership was dissolved in 1875 and Ann Mynott continued the business alone. Mary married carpenter Elijah Coe on 13 November 1873 and they lived at 69 Eden Street. Mary died at home and was buried at Mill Road Cemetery on 10 February.
Elijah Coe (1843 – 9 August 1925)
Elijah was born in Cherry Hinton and baptised there on 27 August 1843. He was the son of gardener Charles Coe and his wife Ann and grew up on Cherry Hinton high Street. Aged 17, Elijah was also working as a gardener, but later trained as a carpenter. He was 30 years old when he married Mary Ann and died at Eden Street aged 82 years.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
Parish burial records transcribed by CFHS
by Claire Martinsen
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