CFHS code : AS56
Parish : All Saints
Inscription : In Ever Loving Memory of My dear wife LOIS LAUGHTON who passed peacefully away March 19th 1936 aged 69 Best of wives Mayest thou live in God also of TOM LAUGHTON husband of the above d October 7th 1947
Monument : Headstone/Kerb stones/Urn
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
This headstone stands 2 rows north of the north path that runs through the parish of All Saints against the corner of the wall that leads to the Norfolk St gate. Unfortunately no individual photo was taken when this monument was clear of bramble in 2015. The stones appear to be sound.
Inscription
In Ever Loving Memory of My dear wife LOIS LAUGHTON who passed peacefully away March 19th 1936 aged 69
Best of wives Mayest thou live in God
Also of TOM LAUGHTON husband of the above d October 7th 1947
Lois Laughton (née Barker) (c.1867 – 19 March 1936)
Lois was born in the Fenland village of Coveney, three miles west of Ely. She was the daughter of agricultural labourer John and his wife Harriet. Her father died when she was young and aged 14 she was still living at home as an unemployed domestic servant. Harriet was receiving parish relief. By 1891 she had moved to Cambridge and was the cook at Mary Green’s school at 11 Parkside.
Lois married Tom Laughton in 1899 and the couple went to live at 33 Paradise Street. Tom worked for the Cambridge University Press and the couple died not have any children. Lois died at home aged 69 years old.
Tom Laughton (1 July 1875 – 7 October 1947)
Tom was the son of Thomas and Sarah Ann, and grew up at 48 Gold Street (1891). His father was a tailor and by the age of 16 Tom was working for the University Press, later becoming a warehouseman there.
He kept pigeons and won prizes at the first ‘Fur and Feather Society’ show which was held at the Beaconsfield Hall in February 1920. There were over 100 classes and entries were restricted to a 30 mile radius of the town. Tom won 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes in the Turbit cock class, and 2nd, 3rd and 4th prize in the Turbit hen class.
After he was widowed he married widow Emma Ivall (née Armitage) in 1839. He died aged 72 years old.
Emma Laughton returned to her home town of London and died in October 1970 in Greenwich. She was buried with her first husband George William Ivall.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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