CFHS code : AS50
Parish : All Saints
Inscription : Sacred to the Memory of ANN COLLEAR —- [1851] aged [75] also ——— GEORGE d ——– [1833] aged [21]
Monument : Headstone (broken)
Above information amended from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.203555, 0.13731183 – click here for location
Monument
This headstone, nestling under ivy in the parish of All Saints, stands on the north west wall that leads to the Norfolk St gate, just before the corner so close to the north path. The carved inscription is very eroded.
Inscription
Sacred to the Memory of ANN COLLEAR —- [1851] aged [75] years
Also ——— GEORGE d ——– [1833] aged [21]
Ann Collear (née Scoffield) (c.1775 – 8 February 1851) Collier appears in some records
Ann was born in Cambridge and married George Collear (1773-) at St. Andrew the Great Church on 22 March 1809. They had at least two children: George (1812-1833) Ann (baptised on the same day as George died 1817 age 3 under the surname Collier),and Mary Ann Twitchett (1819-1886). Ann worked at Emmanuel College as a college servant and by 1841 was a widow and living with her daughter and son-in-law Benjamin Langton at Downing Street. We have not found a burial record for George Collear.
Ann died aged 75 years old and the announcement of her death in local newspapers read that she was ‘sixty years a faithful and respected servant of Emmanuel College.
George Collear (c.1812 – June 1833)
George was the son of George and Ann and was baptised at St. Andrew the Great Church on 19 December 1813. He died aged 21 and was buried on 7 June 1833 in the churchyard of St Andrew the Great in the centre of Cambridge..
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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