CFHS code : AL219
Parish : St Andrew the Less
Inscription : In Loving Memory of our dear daughter ELSIE HELEN HOLMES d Sunday March 6 1910 aged 14 also of DANIEL HOLMES d July 17 1921 aged 58
Monument : Headstone/Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
This headstone set within kerbstones stands 1 row east of the east path in the parish of Andrew the Less. Located just before the east path bends to the north and close to the Blackbird sculpture. The name Elsie is carved onto a ribbon with a circle at the top with decorative carving to the sides. The inscription of metal letters is intact. A tree now grows within the grave set.
Inscription
In Loving Memory of ELSIE our dear daughter
ELSIE HELEN HOLMES died Sunday March 6. 1910. Aged 14 years
Day after day we saw her fade. And gently pass away:
We often prayed in our own hearts that she might longer stay.
She’s gone for ever gone, and left us here to weep:
We in turn are called away, within the grave to sleep.
Also of DANIEL HOLMES died July 17 1921. Aged 58 years .
Nothing in my hand I bring; simply to Thy cross I cling !
Relationship: Father and daughter
Elsie Helen Holmes (1895 – 6 March 1910)
Elsie died at 28 Gold Street aged 14 years old.
Daniel Holmes (1863 – 17 July 1921)
Daniel was the son of Daniel and Caroline (née Westwood) Holmes and brother of Mahala and Philip. His father was a carpenter/joiner and he grew up at 12 ‘Back of New Street’ (1871). By the age of 18 he was lodging with George and Eliza Sells and working as a general labourer. He married Eliza Emma Cornwell (1862-1929) on 6 February 1882 and they had children: Ethel Emma (1882-1950), Lillie Mahala (1884-1949), Frederick (1886-1946), Philip (1887-1964), Grace Milly (1888-1964), Percy Daniel (1891-1891), George Daniel (1892-1948), Florence May (1894-1939), Elsie Helen and Violet Minnie (1897-1975)
In 1891 the family were living at 7 Fields Court and Daniel was working as a general labourer, but they then moved to 28 Gold Street (1901) and he worked as a telegraph wireman. Daniel died at Addenbrookes Hospital aged 58 years old.
His widow Eliza died at Gold Street on 24 November 1929.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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