CFHS code : PL row 13 grave 51
Parish : St Paul
Inscription : Barely legible James Edwards also Eliza Edwards
Monument : headstone located a few rows north of the south path east of the lodge.
Cambridge Family History Society did not survey this monument
Monument Inscription
Photo 2016
James Edwards
also Eliza Edwards
James Edwards c.1813 – 1 June 1891)
James was born in Cambridge and married Eliza Clayton on 20 August 1835. They had at least three children: William (1838-), Sarah Ann (1846-1912) and Robert (1852-1914). James worked as a plumber/glazier and the couple lived at 2 Princes Street (1841/1851) and then at 103 Russell Street (1861/1871). They had moved to live at the Royal Albert Homes on Hills Road by at least April 1891, and James died there aged 76 years old. He was buried at Mill Road Cemetery on 4 June 1891.
Eliza Edwards (née Claydon) (c.1811 – June 1896)
Eliza was born in Cheveley, Cambridgeshire. She was living at Albert buildings when she died aged 85 and was buried at Mill Road Cemetery on June 12 1896.
Albert Buildings or Albert Asylum was a charity home on the corner of Hills Road and Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge. It still exists today as Royal Albert Homes as a charity run by The Cambridge Royal Albert Benevolent Society; it provides subsidised homes for independent people of retirement age.
Sources:
CFHS parish record and census transcriptions
Cambridge Royal Albert Homes website http://www.cambridgeroyalalberthomes.org.uk/about.html
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
By Mary Naylor and Claire Martinsen
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