CFHS code : MG212
Parish : St Mary the Great
Inscription : ELIZABETH WALLIS d 8 Apr 1924 aged 68 also SIDNEY WALKDEN WALLIS d 27 Mar 1933 aged 75 also HARRY CHARLES HUNT d 21 Jan 1959 aged 75 also ALICE MAUD HUNT d 9 July 1980 aged 92
Monument : Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.202107, 0.13778385 – click here for location
Monument
Inscription
Relationship: mother, father, daughter, son-in-law
Elizabeth Wallis (née Cousins) (1855 – 8 April 1924)
Elizabeth was born in Exeter and was the daughter of George and Elizabeth Cousins. Her father worked as a lapidary (stone polisher), but had died before Elizabeth was 6 years old, so she grew up with her mother and siblings, and Elizabeth Wallis (Snr) worked as a shoe binder. when the census of 1881 was taken Elizabeth was staying with her elder brother George and his family in Cambridge. George Cousins was a tailor which is perhaps how she met her future husband. She married tailor Sidney Wallis in 1884 and they had four children: Agnes Elizabeth (1885-1968), Alice Maud (1887-1980), Florence Eliza (1889-1971) and Frederick William (1892-1947). The family lived at 12 Norfolk Terrace and Elizabeth died aged 68 years old.
Sidney Walkden Wallis (1858 – 27 March 1933)
Sidney was the son of David Wallis and Eliza, and grew up at 16 Botolph Lane where his father was a tailor and robemaker. In November 1878 Sidney appeared before magistrates accused of ‘assaulting Rev. G.F. Browne, pro-proctor’. Rev. Browne said he had been surrounded by a mob who were angry that one of their friends had been accused of assualting an undergraduate. He testified that he had been ‘very much pushed about and found myself seized by the gown from behind and nearly pulled on my back. I turned around and in so doing pulled my gown free, and the defendant fell down’. At court Rev. Browne said he did not wish to press charges as Sidney Wallis had said he was sorry and ‘came of respectable parents’. The charge was dismissed upon payment of costs.
Sidney continued to live at 12 Norfolk Terrace after he was widowed and died aged 75 years old.
Harry Charles Hunt (2 May 1885 – 21 January 1959)
Harry was the third son of Stephen and Mary Ann (née Clements) and grew up at 1 & 2 Gold Street where his father was a cabinet maker, upholsterer and undertaker. The family then moved to 13 Fitzroy Street, and Stephen kept a workshop in Elm Street. Stephen committed suicide in April 1898 and 12 year old Harry had to testify at the inquest as it had been him who had been unable to open the workshop and had heard his father murmur from inside. The inquest found that Stephen was ‘suffering from mental aberration and that he committed suicide during temporary insanity’.
In 1901 Harry was living at 36 Norfolk Street with his dressmaker mother and was working as an apprentice upholsterer. He lived at Norfolk Street until he married Alice Wallis in 1922. The couple lived at 104 Ainsworth Street, next door to Alice’s sister Agnes and her husband Frederick Allen and Hary worked as an upholsterer throughout his life. He died aged 73 years old.
[NB – Stephen Hunt is also believed to have been buried at Mill Road Cemetery, but his grave has not yet been found]
Alice Maud Hunt (née Wallis) (6 December 1887 – 9 July 1980)
Alice was the second daughter of Sidney and Elizabeth and in 1911 was living at Norfolk Terrace and working as a tailoress. She continued to live at 104 Ainsworth Street until at least 1965 and died aged 92 years old.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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