CFHS code : AG493 and AG493a
Parish : St Andrew the Great
Inscription : IAR JOSEPH CROSIER d Nov 7 1851 aged 53 also of MARY his beloved wife d March 14th 1866 aged 65.
THOMAS SUTTON d May 14 1896 aged 62 HANNAH his beloved wife [SEPTEMBER] 17 1922 aged 84
Monument : Headstone and Coped stone
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.203053, 0.13722919 – click here for location
Monument
This grave, in the north section of the parish of Andrew the Great, is marked by 2 monuments. A headstone with a coped stone in front of it. They are located on the north border of the parish roughly 10 rows west of the central path. The carved inscription on the headstone is only just visible and we have not checked the inscription on the coped stone as it is covered in ivy.
Inscription
headstone
In Affectionate Remembrance of JOSEPH CROSIER who died Nov 7 1851 aged 53 years
Also of MARY his beloved wife who died March 14th 1866 aged 65 years
coped stone
THOMAS SUTTON d May 14 1896 aged 62
HANNAH his beloved wife September 17 1922 aged 84
Relationships Joseph & Mary were the parents of Hannah, and Thomas was their son-in-law.
Joseph Samuel Crosier (c.1798 – 7 November 1851)
Joseph was born in Newmarket, and married Mary Cole on 26 March 1823 at All Saint’s Church, Newmarket. They had at least seven children: Mary Ann (1823-1825), Elizabeth (1825-), Joseph Samuel (1827-1889), Mary Ann (1828-), Eliza Julia (1831-1862), Hannah (1839-1922) and Charles (1841-1875). In 1841 the family were living at Prospect Row in Newmarket, and Joseph was described as a dealer, but it is believed he also worked as a baker. When the census of 1851 was taken he was a patient at Camberwell House, a private mental asylum in Camberwell, London. He died there, and was buried in St. Giles’ Church Camberwell on 12 November 1851.
NB – the family surname is also spelt Crozier on some documentation.
Mary Crosier (née Cole) (c.1801 – 14 March 1866)
Mary was born in Brinkley – a village 15 miles east of Cambridge, and 5 miles south of Cambridge. In 1851 she was running the family bakery on the High Street in Newmarket together with her son Joseph, whilst her husband was hospitalised in London. Joseph had moved to Norwich by 1861, so she was running it with the help of two journeyman bakers. She died in 1866 at 22 Clarendon Street, the home of her son Joseph, and was buried at Mill Road Cemetery.
Thomas Sutton (c.1834 – 14 May 1896)
Little is known of Thomas’s life. He married Hannah Crosier in Brinkley on April 2nd 1885 when he was c.51 years old. From the parish register we learn that he worked as a hairdresser in London St Marylebone and that his father John was also a hairdresser. He died at 2 Bay Terrace, Norwich Street in May 1896.
Hannah Sutton (née Crosier) (1839 – 17 September 1922)
Hannah was born in Newmarket and was the daughter of Joseph and Mary Crosier (also sometimes spelt Crozier). She grew up on Prospect Row in the town, where her father worked as a dealer. After her parents died she lived with her brother Charles and his family (1871). In 1881 she was living in Bell Lane, Brinkley and was housekeeper to her maternal aunt and uncle. She married Thomas Sutton when she was 45 years old. After he died she continued to live at 41 Norwich Street and took in lodgers. She died at home aged 84 years old and her nephew Horace Crosier was the executor of her will.
Source:
Ancestry
by Claire Martinsen
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
CFHS transcript of the parish grave register.
by Claire Martinsen
[If you have any further information about this family, please contact us at Friendsofmillroadcemetery@gmail.com]