This grave was not found by CFHS during their survey of the Cemetery, and is not thought able to be found
Parish : St Paul’s
Gertrude Edith Victoria Hobbs (c.1897 – 4 January 1921)
Gertrude was the youngest child of Harry and Fanny Hobbs and was baptised on 27 June 1897 at St. Paul’s Church. She is known to have been ill for many years before she died aged 24 years old. Aged 13 she was documented on the 1911 census as being ‘at home sick’. She died at 132 Hills Road ‘after a long and painful illness’ and was buried at Mill Road Cemetery on 8 January 1921. The coffin ‘was covered with beautiful wreaths’ and ‘was of French polished elm and heavy brass fittings’.
Harry Hobbs (15 May 1861 – September 1944)
Harry was the third son of Alfred (1828 – 1907) and Adelaide (née Morley) (1832-1896) and was baptised at St. Paul’s Church on 25 August 1861. Alfred was a railway labourer and the family lived at 5 Cambridge Place. Aged 19, Harry was working as a railway carman. In November 1884 he started working as a railway shunter. He married Fanny Kester on 20 February 1887 at St. Paul’s Church and they had four children: Albert Leslie Sidney (known as Leslie) (1887-1973), Hilda Ethel Florence (1889-1934), Olive May (1892-1986) and Gertrude.
They lived at 132 Hill Road, which were railway cottages owned by the London and North West Railway. In 1911 he was still working as a shunter, but by 1921 was a signalman. Harry had retired by 1939 and died aged 83 years old. His funeral was held on 14 September 1944.
Fanny Hobbs (née Kester) (5 February 1860 – February 1846)
Fanny was born in Madingley and baptised there on 4 March 1860. She was the second daughter of agricultural labourer John (1836-1902) and Mary (née Barlow) (1838-1918) and grew up in Madingley. Before marrying Harry Hobbs she worked as a college servant at Newnham College. She died aged 86 years old and was buried on 8 February 1946.
Harry’s mother Adelaide was buried in the Holy Sepulchre area of Mill Road Cemetery in April 1896 – her grave has not been found.
His brother John (Jack) Cooper Hobbs (1857-1902) was buried in the St Andrew the Less area of the Cemetery – his grave has also not been found. Jack was a well known professional cricketer, groundsman of Jesus College and father of cricketing great Jack Hobbs.
His elder brother James Morley Hobbs (1856- 1905) was buried in the St. Paul’s area of the Cemetery on 16 August 1905. His grave has also not been found.
Harry’s sister in law Eliza and three neices and nephews are also buried at Mill Road Cemetery
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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