CFHS code : AG84
Parish : St Andrew the Great
Inscription : In Loving Memory of JANE beloved wife of HENRY HOPKINS d Dec 30 1907 age 76 also HENRY HOPKINS her husband d July 14 1911 age 82
Monument : Headstone
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.202609, 0.13690057 – click here for location
Monument
Inscription
In Loving Memory of JANE beloved wife of HENRY HOPKINS
Who died Dec 30 1907 age 76 years
“Gone but not forgotten”
Also of HENRY HOPKINS husband of the above
Who died July 14 1911 age 82 years
Jane Hopkins (née Sawyer) (1833 – 30 December 1907)
Jane was born in Sutton, six miles west of Ely, the daughter of John and Susan (née Poole). Aged 18 she was working as a servant in Chatteris (1851) and married Henry Hopkins on 22 July 1853 in Sutton. Henry was a shepherd and they had at least nine children and one adopted child: Henry William (1854-1935), John A(1857-), Alice (1860-1931), Arthur Herbert (1863-1944), Alfred (1865-1948), Burrows (1867-1954), Lydia (1870-1942), Frederick Charles (1872-1944), Daisy (1879-1957) and Herbert (adopted) (1888-1971). They lived in Sutton, and by 1881 Henry was landlord of the Black Horse, Hill Street, as well as working as a shepherd. By 1891 they had moved to live at 36 Gold Street, Cambridge. Her death registration gave her age as 75 years, the grave monument states 76 years.
Henry Hopkins (c.1829 – 14 July 1911)
Henry was also born in Sutton, the son of shepherd John Hopkins (1798-1881) and Alice (née Burrows) (1798-1877). After he was widowed he lived at Gold Street with son Herbert, daughter Daisy and her family.
Source:
Ancestry
by Claire Martinsen
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