CFHS code : AL515a
Parish : St Andrew the Less
Inscription : In Loving Memory of WILLIAM FRANCIS d Jany 24th 1883 aged 56 also SARAH FRANCIS wife of the above d July 18th 1900 aged 77
Monument : Headstone
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
To the north west of the parish roughly 100 metres from the Norfolk Street gate.
Inscription
In Loving Memory of WILLIAM FRANCIS who died Jany 24th 1883 aged 56 years
” We miss him when the morning dawns
We Miss him when the night returns
We miss him here we miss him there
We miss his footsteps everywhere.”
“In the midst of Life we are in death”
Also SARAH FRANCIS wife of the above who died July 18th 1900 aged 77 years
William Francis (1827 – 24 January 1883)
William was born in Felsham in Suffolk. By 1851 he was married to Sarah and was living in Littleport and working as an agricultural labourer. In 1871 he was living at 64 Newmarket Road and working as an independent unlicensed brewer.
From at least 1879 he was running the Butchers Arms at 231 Newmarket Road. The census of 1881 records him there and as a ‘publican and lodging house keeper’. He died in 1883 aged 56 years old.
Sarah Francis (1823 – 18 July 1900)
Sarah was born in Burwell. She and William did not have any children, and she was widowed in 1883 when she was 60 years old. She is recorded as being landlady of the Butchers Arms in 1888, but by 1891 was living next door to the pub, and living on her own means. She died aged 77 years old.
Claire Martinsen
Source: Ancestry/Newspaper archives
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