CFHS code : HT594
Parish : Holy Trinity
Inscription : 26874 Private C F G HOYE E Kent Reg (The Buffs) d 19 July 1919 aged 19
Monument : Headstone
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.202673, 0.13833785 – click here for location
Monument
This Commonwealth War Grave Commission headstone, in the parish area of Holy Trinity, is located in the south-east corner of the cemetery, to the west side of the eastern path after the latter has turned northwards, eight rows back.
Inscription
[regimental badge]
‘26874 Private C F G Hoye
E. Kent Regt. (The Buffs)
19th July 1919 Age 19’
[cross]
“Till we meet again”
Cecil Frederick George Hoye (1900-1919)
Known as George, he was born in 1900 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. He was the third of eleven children born to Frederick Charles Hoye (1873-1946) and Elizabeth Hoye (née Mowlam) (1872-1930). The family lived at 5 York Street, Cambridge. He worked at Trinity College and was a memeber of the New Street Bible Class. George enlisted as Private 26874, 3rd Battalion, East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) in c.June 1918. He died on 19 July 1919, aged 19 at the Military Hospital in Cork, Ireland after ‘ten days unconsciousness’. As he had died ‘at home’ his body was transferred back to Cambridge and buried in his home town. George was also commemorated on the Cambridge Guildhall War Memorial.
George was buried in the family grave[s] in the Holy Trinity area of Mill Road Cemetery. This grave or graves has not yet been found, but contains five other members of the Hoye family
Elizabeth Hoye (née Mowlam) (March 1872 – 6 January 1930)
Elizabeth was born in Cambridge, the eldest daughter of George and Hannah (née Crouch) Mowlam. She was baptised at St. Giles’ Church on 30 January 1873. Her father was a general labourer and by 1881 the family had moved to Westminster. London. By the age of 19 Elizabeth was working as a general servant to auctioneer Richard Price and his wife Sophia in Clapham. She married Frederick Hoye in Clacton, Essex in c.1895 and they had eleven children: Rosa Gladys May (1896-1974), Leonard Charles (1898-1958), Cecila Frederick George, Reginald William (1902-1975), Vera Elizabeth (1905-1957), Winifred Ellen (1907-1913), Horace William (1909-1961), Edna Muriel (1910-1913), Gertrude Irene (known as Irene) (1912-1954), Ronald Victor (1914-1915) and Wilfred Leslie (1916-1974). Their first two children were born in Clacton, but they had returned to live in Cambridge, at 5 York Street by the time George was born in 1900. Frederick worked as a carpenter/joiner for the Cambridge Corporation. By 1921 he had a stall at Cambridge Market. Elizabeth died ‘suddenly at her home’ and her funeral took place on 9 January. Elizabeth was a member of the Salvation Army Home League, and members of the League sent a wreath and were present at the burial.
Frederick Charles Hoye (2 September 1873 – 26 February 1946)
Frederick was the son of Charles Taylor Hoye (1851-1884) and Mary Jane (née Robinson) (1852-1936). He was baptised at St. Matthew’s Church on 2 November 1873. Charles Hoye was a general labourer, who died when Frederick was a young child. Aged 17 he was living with his mother and three siblings at 12 Rivar Place and working as a carpenter. After he was widowed he lived with daughter Rosa and son in law Harry Smith at 5 New Road (1939) and then 88 King Hedges Road. In the records of September 1939 he was described as a retired roadman for Cambridge Borough Council. He died at home and his funeral was held on 2 March.
Winifred Ellen Hoye (1907 – 10 April 1913)
Winifred died at the Sanitorium, Mill Road of TB aged 6 years old. She was buried at Mill Road Cemetery on 12 April.
Edna Muriel Hoye (1910 – 14 April 1913)
Edna also died of TB at the Sanitorium aged 2 years and 9 months old. Her funeral was held on 17 April.
Ronald Victor Hoye (16 February 1914 – February 1915)
Ronald was baptised at St. Matthew’s Church on 26 April 1914. He died aged 12 months old and was buried on 20 February 1915.
[If you know anything further of this family, please contact us at friendsofmillroadcemetery@gmail.com.]
Sources:
War Graves Photographic Project
www.roll-of-honour.com
Census: 1901, and 1911
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
Ireland, Civil Registration Deaths Index, 1864-1958
UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
UK, Army Registers of Soldiers’ Effects, 1901-1929
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
By Ian Bent and Emma Easterbrook
Additional information added by Claire Martinsen