CFHS code : AS76
Parish : All Saints
Inscription : In Loving Memory of FREDERICK CHARLES HOPKINS d May 15 1944 age 73 also his wife MAUD d Feb 7 1955 age 73
Monument : Headstone/Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.203506, 0.13700217 – click here for location
Monument
This headstone, with kerb stones, is located to the north of the north path, in the parish area of All Saints.
Inscription
‘In Loving Memory of FREDERICK CHARLES HOPKINS
died May 15, 1944, age 73 years.
Also his wife MAUD died Feb 7, 1955, age 73 years.’
“Remembered always.”
Frederick Charles Hopkins (4 February 1872 – 15 May 1944)
Frederick (known as Fred) was born in Sutton, near Ely. He was baptised in Sutton on 31st March 1872. He was the son of Henry and Jane Hopkins and grew up at the Black Horse Pub in Sutton where his father was a publican and also shepherd. Aged 19 Fred was lodging with the railway gatehouse keeper at Wood Ditton near Cambridge and working as a railway porter.
He married Maud Mabel Johnson in 1900 when he was 28 years old and they had three children together: Louisa Radford Johnson (1900-), Daisy Alexandra Maud (1902-1975) and Frederick Charles (1908-1973). Immediately after marriage the family were living at 27 King Street (1901) where Fred was a fishmonger. In 1911 they were living at 163 East Road, and Fred’s occupation is described as ‘fish merchant’. Daughter Daisy was born in Monmouthshire in 1902, but son Frederick was born in Cambridge in 1908. Maybe between 1901 and 1908 the family spent some time in South Wales.
They lived at 56 Jesus Lane for many years, where they ran a Lodging House, and Fred also carried on a business in Fitzroy Street, where he ran a fish business from 1899 onwards. The Lodging house had close links with Jesus College, and in particular with the rowing house and the Hopkins ‘looked after generations of Jesus rowing men, including many rowing Blues’. Fred was caterer at Henley Regatta for the Jesus College Boat Club for many years. He was also a life member of the Albion Angling Sociaety and a prominent member of the Fitzroy Social Club.
Around 1942 Fred and Maud moved to 7 Manor Street, where he died. Newspapers reported he had been in ‘indifferent health for some time, but the end came quite suddenly’.
Maud Mabel Hopkins (nee Johnson) (19 October 1882 – 7 February 1955)
Maud was born in Norwich, and married Fred Hopkins when she was 17 years old. She was widowed aged 61 years old. She continued to live at 7 Manor Street after Fred died, and died in 1955 at the Hope Nursing Home on Brooklands Avenue.
Source:
Ancestry
by Claire Martinsen