CFHS code : HS101
Parish : Holy Sepulchre
Inscription : Ever Loving Memory of PHILIP THURLEY d Dec 3 1911 age 29 also ADA HOLDER (nee THURLEY) d Nov 19 1921 age 36
Monument : Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon for Rodell : 52.202296, 0.13827587 – click here for location
Monument
This set of kerbstones, with corner posts, in the parish of Holy Sepulchre, lie 2 or 3 rows west of the east path hidden in dense bramble. The inscriptions of metal letters are intact. As We had not found this monument when the parish was mapped in 2019 the nearest map link is Rodell HS103 which lies 1 plot to the south.
Inscription
Ever Loving Memory of PHILIP THURLEY died Dec 3rd 1911 age 29
Also ADA HOLDER (nee THURLEY) died Nov 19th 1921 age 36
“Thy will be done”
Philip Thurley (c.1882 – 3 December 1911)
Philip was the son of John and Jane Thurley and was born in Clerkenwell, London. He grew up on Farringdon Road in Clerkenwell and his father worked as a brewery drayman (1891) but the family had moved to Brookside, Mill Road by 1901. John and Jane Thurley were originally from Cambridge, and in 1901 John was working as an agricultural labourer and Philip as a carpenter’s apprentice.
Philip married Ada Lank in 1908 and they had one daughter: Edna Ada (1909-1976). They lived at 26 Belgrave Road and Philip continued to work as a carpenter. He died at home aged 29 years old.
Ada Holder (née Lank) (c.1885 – 19 November 1921)
Ada was the daughter of George and Charlotte Lank and grew up at 9 Belgrave Road. Her father worked as a railway guard for Great Eastern Railway. By the age of 16 Ada was working as a dressmaker, and married Philip Thurley when she was 23 years old.
She married for a second time in 1916 widower Harrison John Holder (1874-1944). They had one daughter Jean A T (1921-) and Ada is believed to have died as a result of complications of childbirth.
Source:
Ancestry
by Claire Martinsen
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