CFHS code : HT401
Parish : Holy Trinity
Inscription : In Loving Memory of WILLIAM EDWARD FISHER d Aug 8th 1895 aged 33 also of FRANCIS FISHER d Sept 9th 1892 aged 5 months
Monument : Stone cross (broken)
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.201901, 0.13727636 – click here for location
Monument
This broken cross is located four rows east of the central path and four monuments north of the south path. It was restored in 2016 but broken again in 2019. The inscription of metal letters is in reasonably good order with only a few letters missing.
Inscription
In Loving Memory of WILLIAM EDWARD FISHER who died Aug 8th 1895 aged 33 years
Also of FRANCIS FISHER d Sept 9th 1892 aged 5 months
William Edward Fisher (1861 – 8 August 1895)
William was born in Cambridge and was the son of Mary and Jeremiah Fisher. Jeremiah was a hawker and William grew up at 2 Burleigh Place (1871). In 1881 he was living at 26 King Street, and working as a journeyman confectioner for Louie Brigatti an Italian confectioner. He married Frances Mary Burbage on May 26th 1884 at Holy Trinity church when she was 23 years old. Frances was always known by her middle name of Mary.
Mary and William had at least four children: Ernest William (1885-), Harry John (1889-1951), Frances Elizabeth (1892-1892) and Sidney George (1894-). They lived at 36 or 38 King Street, and by the time Sidney was baptised in 1895 William described as a shopkeeper presumably a confectionery shop. He died at home aged 33 years old.
In the 1901 census his widow Mary was running the running the confectionary shop. In 1904 a gang of boys stole a jar of toffee from her shop but a quick witted neighbour saw them, they were arrested and whipped. Mary Fisher was admitted to Fulbourn Hospital in 1910 and died there in February 1915 – she was buried in this parish.
In 1911 William and Mary’s eldest son Ernest Fisher was living at an Epilepsy Colony in Cheshire. Their youngest son Sidney was living at a Dr Barnardo’s Home in London, training to be a cook.
Frances Elizabeth Fisher (9 April 1892 – 9 September 1892)
Frances was the third child born to Mary and William Fisher. She was baptised on 26 June 1892 at Holy Trinity Church and died aged 5 months old.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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