CFHS code : ED126
Parish : St Edward
Inscription : In Loving Memory of AGNES LOUISA DEAN d June 17th [1915] aged 49 also of LIZZIE METCALFE sister of the above d Dec 30 1935 aged 72
Monument : Headstone/Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.203233, 0.13669636 – click here for location
Monument
Inscription
‘In Loving Memory of AGNES LOUISA DEAN
Who passed away June 17th 1915 aged 49 years.’
‘Also of LIZZIE METCALFE sister of the above who died Dec 30 1935. Aged 72 years’
Agnes Louisa Dean (née Hurst) (1865 – 17 June 1915)
Agnes was born in the village of Sketchworth, three miles south of Newmarket and twelve miles east of Cambridge. She was the daughter of Thomas and Mary Ann (née Thompson) Hurst and grew up in Sketchworth where her father was an agricultural labourer. Aged 16 she was working as a domestic servant to Rev. and Maria Knipe in Newmarket (1881) before marrying George Richard Dean (1868-1944) in 1889. George worked for Miller’s Wine Merchant at 14 Benet Street, and in 1891 the pair were both living at Benet Street with Frederick Miller, the son of the owner. George was working as a caretaker/cellarman and Agnes was the housekeeper. The couple continued to live at Benet Street (1901/1911) and George was foreman of the business. Agnes died at Benet Street aged 49 years old.
George Dean married Agnes’ younger sister Jessie Hurst in 1920 and they are buried together in a nearby grave.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Thompson Metcalf (née Hurst) (1863 – 30 December 1935)
Lizzie was the eldest daughter of Thomas and Mary Hurst and was born in Bury St. Edmunds. In 1881, she was 18 years old and working as a kitchen maid for Isaac Wilkinson J.P. and his wife Margaret in Swaffham Bulbeck. In 1901 she was working as a domestic cook and married George Metcalf in 1905. In 1911 she was living in Great Abington, with sister Jessie and two lodgers. The census recorded her as being married, but George was living/working elsewhere. It is assumed she was widowed at some point, and by 1929 was living at 63 Bradmore Street. Lizzie died at Bradmore Street, and was buried at Mill Road Cemetery on 2 January 1935.
Her surname was spelt Metcalf, and it is not known why an ‘e’ was added on the grave monument.
Sources:
Ancestry
Parish burial records transcribed by CFHS
by Claire Martinsen
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