CFHS code : ED62
Parish : St Edward
Inscription : In Loving Remembrance of EDWIN JOHN HILLS b May 25 1843 d June 4 1883 also GEORGE FREDERICK HILLS d Oct 7 1911 in his 64th year also BENJAMIN HILLS brother of the above d June 24 1890 aged 29 also JOHN HILLS d Jan 10 1912 in his 62nd year
Monument : Headstone/Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.203225, 0.13716427 – click here for location
Monument
One of a matching pair of family headstones, roughly fourteen rows west of the central path.
Inscription
In Loving Remembrance of EDWIN JOHN HILLS born May 25 1843 died June 4 1883
Also GEORGE FREDERICK HILLS died Oct 7th 1911 in his 64th year
Also BENJAMIN HILLS brother of the above who died June 24th 1890 aged 29 years
Also JOHN HILLS who died January 10th 1912 in his 62nd year
Relationship: brothers
Edwin John Hills (25 May 1843 – 4 June 1883)
Edwin was the second son of John and Sophia Hills. He was baptised at St Clement’s Church on 17th March 1854. Edwin was a joiner/ gilder and frame maker, and the family were raised at 3 Portugal Place and then 9 Wheeler Street.
Edwin married Eliza Stanford in 1869. In 1871 he was living with Eliza at 5 Union Street and was working as a carpenter and paper hanger, employing 4 men. In 1881 he was living at 9 Peas Hill and was a carpenter. He died in 1883 aged 40 years old at 1 Panton Street.
George Frederick Hills (c.1848 – 7 October 1911)
George was the fourth of John and Sophia Hill’s nine children. He grew up at 3 Portugal Place [1851] and then at 9 Wheeler Street [1861]. George never married and lived for the majority of his life at Wheeler Street. He worked initially as a paper hanger [at least 1871-1891]. On the census records of 1901 and 1911 he is recorded as a picture frame maker.
He lived at 9 [and later 9 & 10 Wheeler Street] with his sisters Ellen and Sophia and brother John. Ellen and Sophia ran a Lodging House there. George died in October 1911 aged 64 years old.
Benjamin Hills (1860 – 24 June 1890)
Benjamin was the youngest of the Hills children. He was born at 9 Wheeler Street. Aged 21 he was living in Birmingham and was a drapers assistant to his brother Henry George Hills. He died in Cambridge in 1890 aged 30 years old.
John Hills (1850 – 10 January 1912)
John was the fifth of the Hills children. He grew up at 9 Wheeler Street and worked as a picture frame maker and gilder. He never married, and lived with his sisters and brother Edwin at Wheeler Street. He died aged 61 years old.
Claire Martinsen
Source: Ancestry/Newspaper archives
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