CFHS code : AL349
Parish : St Andrew the Less
Inscription : In Loving Memory of EDWARD the beloved husband of ELIZABETH COOPER d July 11 1920 aged 39 also George Pain who died March 12th 1894 aged 43 also Elizabeth widow of George Pain d March 29 1911 aged 61 also SARA ELIZABETH widow of EDWARD COOPER d June 26 1956 aged 77
Monument : Headstone/Kerb stones
Above information amended from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
This headstone stands roughly 12 rows east of the central path and 5 monuments south of the north path, in the parish of St Andrew the Less. The inscription of metal letters is intact. The kerb stones appear intact but have become overgrown.
Inscription
In Loving Memory of EDWARD the beloved husband of ELIZABETH COOPER who died July 11 1920 aged 39 years
Also GEORGE PAIN who died March 12th 1894 aged 43 years
Also Elizabeth widow of GEORGE PAIN who died 29 1911 aged 61 years
Also SARA ELIZABETH widow of EDWARD COOPER who died June 26 1956 aged 77 years
“reunited”
Relationship: Mother, father, daughter and son in law
Edward Riley (Ted) Cooper (1881 – 11 July 1920)
Ted was the son of Edward Maile Cooper (1826-1895) and Alice, and he was born in Grantchester. His father was a Chelsea Pensioner, and he grew up at 6 Abbey Walk (1891). He joined the army and in 1901 was stationed at the barracks in Fareham, serving as a gunner. He married Sarah Pain in 1910 and the following year the couple were living at 153 Catherine Street, and he was working as a builder’s labourer. He later served in the Territorial Army with the 1st Cambridgeshire Regiment and the 9th Battalion Norfolk Regiment and served in the 1st World War. After the war he worked as a postman and the couple lived at Ivy House, Tydd-gate, Tydd Street in Wisbech. He died in Cambridge aged 39 and his funeral was held on 15 July. The Cambridge Independent Press printed a short obituary ‘Mr Cooper died after a short illness on July 11th whilst staying on holidays with his sister, Mrs W. Titmuss, 22 Thoday Street, Cambridge. He was resident in Cambridge for several years before taking up a post at Tydd. Being a Territorial, he was in camp when the war broke out. He served for two years and eight months in France and was demobilised in April 1919. He had been ill on several occasions since then, owing to war strain.’
George Pain (26 June 1950 – 12 March 1894)
George was born in Rampton, a village six miles north of Cambridge on the edge of the Fens and was baptised there on 21 July 1850. He was the son of John and Elizabeth (née King) and grew up at the school in Rampton, where his grandfather William King was the schoolmaster. His father John was an agricultural labourer and aged 20 George was working as a groom in Chatteris. He married Elizabeth Hancock in 1874 and they had at least eight children: John William (1875-1937), Alice Louisa (1877-1952), Sarah Elizabeth (1879-1956), Catherine Mary (1880-1964), Clara May (1882-1955), William Henry (1884-1957), George (1888-1974) and Thomas Daniel (1894-1972). In 1881 George was running the William and Mary Pub, 28 Maids Causeway and was also a fly (carriage) driver. The family later lived at 6 Leek Street, Newmarket Road, where he was documented as a cab (carriage) driver and Elizabeth as a college bedmaker. In December 1891 George was charged with ‘acting as [a] cab driver without having the necessary licence’. He told the court he had neglected to renew his license and was charged 2s, 6d and costs. He died at Addenbrookes Hospital aged 43 years old of ‘oedema of glottis, pulmonary thrombosis’ and his funeral was held on 17 March. His youngest son Thomas Daniel Pain was born on 24 March 1894.
Elizabeth Pain (née Hancock) (1850 – 29 March 1911)
Elizabeth was born in Stow cum Quy, the daughter of William and Mary. She grew up on the High Street, and her father was an agricultural labourer. Aged 21 Elizabeth was working as a general servant to farmer George Ivatt in Chatteris, which is presumably where she met her future husband, as he was working as a groom in the same town. After George’s death she moved to live at 32 Ross Street and worked as a charwoman (1901). She died at 153 Catherine Street and was buried at Mill Road Cemetery on 3 April 1911.
Sara Elizabeth Cooper (née Pain) (1879 – 26 June 1956)
Sarah married Ted Cooper and was widowed when she was 40 years old. In 1935 she was living at 95 Mowbray Road with her niece Vera Reynolds, and Vera’s husband Alfred. She died in Cambridge and was cremated on 2 July 1956.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
Parish burial records transcribed by CFHS
by Claire Martinsen
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