CFHS code : AL146
Parish : St Andrew the Less
Inscription : HARRIET GOLDING d March 19 1889 aged 76 also ROBERT J B DUNN d Aug 4 1886 age 42 also ELEANOR MARY DUNN wife of the above d Feb 13 1907 age 66
Monument : Stone cross (broken and fallen)
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
This cross fell many years ago but most of the inscription of metal letters is still visible. It lies a few metres west of the wall that leads to the Gwydir St gate in the north of the cemetery.
Inscription
HARRIET GOLDING who died March 19 1889 aged 76
Also ROBERT J B DUNN who died Aug 4 1886 age 42
Also ELEANOR MARY DUNN wife of the above who died Feb 13 1907 age 66
Relationship: Mother, daughter and son in law
Harriet Golding (née Mann) (1813 – 19 March 1889)
Harriet was born in Orford, on the Suffolk Coast and was the daughter of Thomas and Mary Mann. She was baptised in Orford on 24 February 1814 and married Robert Charles Golding (1805-1861) in 1840. The couple had at least five children: Eleanor Mary(1841-1907), George William (1846-1908), Frederick (1847-), Owen (1849-1932) and Walter Robert (1852-). They lived in Woodbridge, Suffolk then Long Melford but by 1851 were living in Bury St. Edmunds where Robert worked on the railway. They had moved to 11 Union Road, Cambridge by 1860 and Robert worked as a railway carriage examiner.
He died in November 1861 as a result of a work related accident. The coal train for Peterborough had arrived at the station and was in the process of being shunted when Robert got knocked over and his leg was severely crushed. A few days later he needed to have his leg amputed as the injuries were too severe. He appeared to be recovering from the operation, but caught tetanus, which caused him to die two weeks after the incident. An inquest was held and a verdict of death due to the injuries caused by the accident was returned. The jury asked the directors of the ‘Eastern Counties Railway, that no engine be started in any yard or station without the whistle being previously sounded by the engine driver’. It is not known where he was buried.
After she widowed Harriet worked as a nurse and lived at 31 Coronation Street where she took in lodgers, which was next door to daughter Eleanor and son in law Robert Dunn. She, Eleanor and Robert then moved to live at 94 Sturton Street (at least 1881 onwards). She died at Sturton Street and her funeral was held on 23 March.
Robert John Bunyan Dunn (1845 – 4 August 1886)
Robert was born in Berkhampstead, the eldest son of William (1824-1899) and Sarah (née Bunyan) (1823-1874). William Dunn was a police constable and aged 17 Robert was working as a domestic groom and lodging with the Jackson family in Baldock. He married Eleanor Golding in Cambridge in 1866 and they had at least eight children: Harriet Emily (1866-1936), Robert Charles (1867-1925), Edith May (1872-), William Edmund (1875-1955), Frederick Owen (1878-1950), Sidney John (1880-1957), Herbert Ironsides (1883-1951) and Grace Mary (1887-1952). They lived at Coronation Street (1871) and 94 Sturton Street (1881). Robert worked as a railway carman (delivery driver) and later as a railway carriage cleaner. He died at home aged 42 years old.
Eleanor Mary Dunn (née Golding) (1841 – 13 February 1907)
Eleanor was born in Woodbridge, Suffolk and worked as a dressmaker before marrying Robert Dunn. Youngest daughter Grace was born three months after she was widowed, and she continued to live at Sturton Street until at least 1891, before moving to 11 Norfolk Terrace (1901) and 35 Paradise Street. She died at home and her funeral was held on 16 February.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
Parish burial records transcribed by CFHS
by Claire Martinsen
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