CFHS code : AS271
Parish : All Saints
Inscription : In Loving Memory of ERNEST WILLIAM HALL d Nov 10 1939 aged 57 also of ROSE ALICE dearly beloved wife of above d Jan 22 1946 in her 66th year
Monument : Headstone/Kerb stones
Above information amended from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.20332, 0.137169
Monument
This fallen headstone, set with in kerbstones, is located in the parish of All Saints. It lies midway between the central and west paths (15 rows from the central path) towards the south of the parish area. The headstone has a carved floral decoration at the top and a simple cross at each side. The inscription of metal letters has a few missing but is still legible. The inscription to their son is complete but often covered in grass.
Inscription
Headstone
In Loving Memory of ERNEST WILLIAM HALL
Who passed away Nov 10 1939 aged 57 years
Also of ROSE ALICE dearly beloved wife of above
Who died Jan 22 1946 in her 66th year
east kerbstone
Also their son Serg’t William W. Hall R.E.
Missing in the far east 1942 aged 27 years
Ernest William Hall (26 February 1882 – 10 November 1939)
Ernest was the son of William and Emma and grew up at 21 Trafalgar Street. His father worked as a college cook (1891/1901) and aged 19 Ernest was working as a railway clerk. He married Alice Frost on 9 August 1906 at Old Chesterton Church. Alice wore a dress ‘of cream crepoline with veil and orange blossoms. She carried a shower bouquet of roses and lillies of the valley’. The service was fully choral and the couple spent their honeymoon in Scarborough. They had two children: Ivy Rose (1909-1999) and William Walter (1915-1942) and lived at 23 Ross Street (1911) then at 3 Trafalgar Road. Ernest worked as a clerk in the engineering department of L.N.E.R. and died at home aged 57 years old.
The funeral took place at All Saints’ Church on 13 November and the announcements in the Cambridge Daily News said he had ‘passed peacefully to rest….no mourning’.
Rose Alice Hall (née Frost) (6 September 1880 – 22 January 1946)
Rose was the daughter of Walter and Mary Ann Frost and sister of Lily. She grew up at 29 Brunswick Street and her father was a college servant. Rose was still living at Trafalgar Road in 1946 but died at her daughter’s home in Clarendon Street.
William Walter Hall (26 December 1915 – 1942)
William Walter married Edna Marie Alice Lofts (1916-2018) at St Paul’s church in 1936 when he was 21 years old. At this time he was working as a clerk and the couple lived at 178 Kings Hedges Road. They had two children: Patricia and Robert. He joined the Royal Engineers during WW2 and was taken prisoner before going missing in February 1942. He left effects of £333 12s 1d and is commemorated on the Singapore Memorial, Kranji, Singapore.
His widow married Peter Welton in 1948 and they had a further seven children together.
Sources:
Ancestry
CHFHS parish records
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen with additional material by Mary Naylor
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