CFHS code : MG71
Parish : St Mary the Great
Inscription : Sacred to the Memory of my beloved parents SAMUEL HOYE d Aug 1st 1934 aged 58 and ALICE M HOYE d Aug 12th 1934 aged 58 also FREDERICK CHARLES CRANE d 21 Oct 1951 aged 78
Monument : Headstone (fallen and broken)/Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.202197, 0.13781741 – click here for location
Monument
This fallen headstone, located in the parish area of Mary the Great, lies in the centre of the parish roughly 15 rows west of the central path and 5 plots from the northern border.It has a carved flower top right and left and the inscription of metal letters is still intact. The kerbstones are still in place but were not uncovered.
Inscription
Sacred to the Memory of my beloved parents
SAMUEL HOYE died Aug 1st 1934 aged 58 years
And ALICE M HOYE died Aug 12th 1934 aged 58 years
‘Thy will be done’
Also FREDERICK CHARLES CRANE died Oct 21st 1951 aged 78 years
Relationship: Parents, and father-in-law of their daughter
Samuel C. Hoye (1876 – 1 August 1934)
Sam was the son of Samuel Hoye (1837-1887) and his wife Louisa. He grew up at 2 Leader’s Row, where his father was a bricklayer. In 1891 he was living with his widowed mother and siblings at 1 Hanley Terrace, and Sam was working as an errand boy. He married Alice Brown in 1906 and the couple had one daughter: Gladys Ada (1907-1988). Sam worked as a labourer, later a painter for Great Eastern Railway and the family lived at 63 Russell Street. He died at home aged 58 years years old,
Alice Maud Hoye (née Brown) (1876 – 12 August 1934)
Alice was the illegitimate daughter of college servant Eliza and grew up at 8 Queen’s Street with her grandfather Peter, mother and siblings. Aged 15 she was working as a nursemaid, and aged 25 was working as a domestic housemaid. She committed suicide less than 2 weeks after her husband. The inquest heard that ‘Mrs Hoye had fretted very much about the death of her husband’. She left a letter addressed to her daughter Gladys and son in law Len which read ‘Dear Gladys and Len. Sorry to casue you all this trouble, but this trouble is playing upon me. I feel I cannot stand it any longer. I want to go to my dear Sam’. The Deputy Coroner returned a verdict of ‘suicide during temporary insanity’ and said it ‘appeared that deceased had taken her husband’s death greatly to heart’.
Frederick Charles Crane (14 May 1873 – 21 October 1951)
Frederick was Gladys Hoye’s father-in-law, and father of her husband Leonard John Crane.
Frederick was born in Enfield and baptised at St. James’ Church, Enfield on 29 June 1873. He was the son of Charles and Emma, and his father worked as a gun filer. By the age of 17, Frederick was also working as a gun machine hand. He married Emily Mansfield (1873-) in 1896 and the couple had at least four children: Wilfred Joseph (1897-1962), Frederick Charles (1898-1976), Leonard John (1908-1985) and Beatrice Mary (1910-2000). In 1901 the family were living at Clewer Cottage, Catherine Road in Enfield and Frederick was recorded as being a ‘machine minder in a factory’. His occupation in the 1911 census was recorded as a gun maker in a small arms factory.
Frederick and Emily’s children Leonard and Beatrice both married and lived in Cambridge. It is believed that Emily died in Cambridge in 1937. Frederick died in Cambridge aged 78 years old.
Source:
Ancestry
by Claire Martinsen
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