CFHS code : ED48
Parish : St Edward
Inscription : In Loving Memory of ALFRED dearly beloved son of JOHN & BERTHA DRAYTON d 19 Mar 1916 aged 12 also BERTHA DRAYTON d 13 Sept 1950 aged 77 also JOHN DRAYTON d 21 Dec 1934 aged 65
Monument : Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.203213, 0.13731007 – click here for location
Monument
Inscription
In Loving Memory of ALFRED dearly beloved son of JOHN & BERTHA DRAYTON died 19 Mar 1916 age 12
Also BERTHA DRAYTON died 13 Sept 1950 aged 77
Also JOHN DRAYTON died Dec. 21. 1934. Aged 65 years
John Drayton (19 April 1869 – 21 December 1934)
John was the son of James John and Sarah Ann Drayton. He was born in Kings Lynn, and was brought up on Crooked Lane. His father was a water bargeman, and John followed his father to become a bargeman too by the time he was 22 years old (1891). He married Bertha Betts on 30 April 1892 at St Andrews Church, Grimsby.
John and Bertha had four children: Frank Roland (1895-1980), Emma (1897-1990), Alfred (1904-1916) and Jack Leslie (1906-1962). Frank and Emma were born in Kings Lynn, and then they appear to have moved as a family to Cambridge. In 1901 they were living at 17 and 18 Fitzroy Street, and John was working as a corn merchant. In 1911 the family were living at 35 City Road, and John was by now a marine engineer. He served as a corporal (Labour Corps) in the first world war and saw action in France from May 1915 to December 1917 before being invalided out in March 1918 due to a double hernia.
John Drayton died in Cambridge in December 1934 aged 65 years old.
Bertha Drayton (nee Betts) (16 July 1873 – 13 September 1950)
Bertha was born in Shouldham in Norfolk, and baptised there on 23 March 1879. She was the daughter of Henry Betts, a grocery assistant, and his wife Susan. By the age of 18 she was still living at home at 6 Thomas Street in Kings Lynn, and working as a dressmaker. She married John Drayton when she was 18 years old.
After being widowed she lived at 4 City Road, Cambridge with her son Jack who was a storekeeper and order clerk. She died in 1950 aged 77 years old.
Alfred Drayton (14 March 1904 – 19 March 1916)
Alfred was the third of the four children born to John and Bertha Drayton. He died a few days after his 12th birthday.
Source:
Ancestry
by Claire Martinsen
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