Parish : St Mary the Great
This brick grave was not found by CFHS during their survey of the Cemetery
Emily Mary Jacobs (née Tweed) (23 January 1844 – 23 December 1883)
Emily was born in Cripplegate, London and baptised in at Holy Trinity Church Cambridge on 20 September 1846. She was the daughter of Edward Johnson Tweed and Mary Ann (née Walker) and grew up on Jesus Lane with her brother Edward. Her father worked as a wine and spirits salesman.
Emily married Thomas Jacobs on 29 July 1869 at St. Andrew the Less Church. Thomas was a college cook’s clerk and the family lived at 5 Park Street, with Emily’s grandmother Elizabeth. They had six children: Arthur William (1870-), Marion Emily (1872-1873), Rosalie Mary, Robert Edward (1876-), Elizabeth Sarah (1878-1963) and Martin Baxter (1881-). By 1881 they had moved to 16 Kings Parade, where they lived with Emily’s mother, two servants and lodger Charles Bayley. Edward Tweed (snr) had committed suicide in August 1879 – he and Mary had been living apart and the inquest heard that he ‘was in embarrassed circumstances and had appeared rather disponding of late. He owed his landlady six weeks’ rent’.
Emily died at Kings Parade aged 39 years old and her funeral was held on 27 December
Rosalie Mary Jacobs (7 January 1874 – 24 May 1907)
Rosalie was the second daughter of Thomas and Emily and was baptised at Holy Sepulchre Church on 8 March 1874. After her mother’s death the Jacobs family lived at Huntingdon Villa, 24 Huntingdon Road.
Rosalie died at Huntingdon Villa aged 33 years old and was buried at Mill Road Cemetery on 27 May 1907.
Thomas Edward Jacobs (c. September 1840 – 9 June 1914)
Thomas was the son of Aaron and Eliza (née Bass) Jacobs and was baptised at All Saints Church on 18 October 1840. Aaron Jacobs worked as a college porter and the family lived on Malcolm Street. He married Emily Tweed when he was 29 years old and eventually became assistant manager of a College kitchen. By 1911 he had retired and was living at 10 De Freville Avenue with his children Robert and Sarah, and general servant Lily South. He died at home aged 73 years old and his funeral was held at Old Chesterton Church on 12 June, before interment at Mill Road Cemetery. There were no flowers ‘by his own request’.
Sources:
Ancestry
Parish bural records
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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