CFHS code : AL498
Parish : St Andrew the Less
Inscription : In Loving Memory of HENRY OSBORNE b Jan 12 1842 d Dec 30 1902 also of MAUD ELEANOR JACOB d Oct 4th 1925 aged 56
Monument : Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
These kerbstones have not yet been found but are believed to be to the west of the central path in the north of the cemetery.
Inscription
In Loving Memory of HENRY OSBORNE b Jan 12 1842 d Dec 30 1902
Also of MAUD ELEANOR JACOB d Oct 4th 1925 aged 56
Relationship: Father and daughter
Henry Osborne (12 January 1842 – 30 December 1902)
Henry was born in Epping in Essex and was known as Harry. He was the son of John and Maria Osborne. The family moved to Cambridge when Harry was young, and he grew up at 12 Coronation Street (1851) and then at 5 Coronation Street (1861). John Osborne was a painter, and later a plumber. When 24 year old Harry married Annie Rayner (1846-1929) in 1866 when he was working as a van driver. He had started working as a railway porter by 1870. In 1871 they had 3 children and were staying or living with Annie’s Uncle Robert and Aunt Elizabeth in Trumpington.
Harry and Annie had eight children: Elizabeth Annie (1866-1922), Maud Eleanor (1868-1925), Harry Edward (1869-1946), Robert Charles (1872-1950), Ernest Edwin (1874-1945), Florence May (1882-1970), Ralph Victor (1887-1943) and another child who died as an infant. Harry worked on the railway as a railway porter (1871), and then as a ticket collector. The family lived at 17 Ainsworth Street (1881) before moving to 91 Ainsworth Street (at least 1891 onwards) and he died aged 60 years old.
The Cambridge Daily News reported his death on Tuesday 30th December 1902:
SUDDEN DEATH
At the G.E.R. Station. a man named Harry Osborne, a ticket collector in the employ the O.K.K. Company, died suddenly Cambridge this morning. He was on duty at the station early in the morning, and about 6.45, while upon the platform, fell to the ground, apparently in a fit. Two porters, Messrs Green and Moore, at once conveyed Osborne to Addenbrooke’s Hospital upon an ambulance. At the hospital life was found be extinct. Deceased had been employed by the Great Eastern Railway Company in various capacities for 42 years. He suffered from a fit six weeks ago, and in consequence was relieved from duty for a fortnight.
Maud Eleanor Jacob (née Osborne) (1868 – 4 October 1925)
Maud was born in Trumpington, and grew up at Ainsworth Street. She was the second child born to Harry and Annie Osborne. In the census of 1891 she was living at home and working as a dressmaker and milliner. She married Edward Albert Jacob in 1898 when she was 30 years old. They had one daughter: Elsie Osborne (1898-1985). Edward Jacob was a hairdresser, and they continued to live with her parents at Ainsworth Street after marriage (1901/1911).
From 1920 onwards Maud and Edward Jacob moved to 15 Hertford Street. She died aged 57 years old.
After being widowed Edward Jacob went to live with his daughter Elsie and her husband Percy Moon. He died in 1949 aged 77 years old.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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