There are several members of the Loates family buried at Mill road Cemetery. Their graves have not yet been identified during any survey of the Cemetery and are now believed to be lost.
Parishes : Holy Trinity/St Andrew the Less
Henry James Loates (2 September 1858 – 17 November 1943)
Henry was born in Adelaide Australia, the second son of William (1826-1906) and Frances (née Reeve) (1837-1920). Both his parents were from Cambridge, and appear to have lived in Australia very briefly – they had returned to Cambridge by at least 1862. William Loates was a labourer, and in 1871 the fmaily were living at 41 New Street and both Henry and his elder brother William (jnr) were also working as labourers. He married Mary Ann Bement (1859-1944) in 1876 and they had five children: Arthur James (1876-1954), Herbert Henry (known as Bert) (1878-1954), Florence Lydia (1881-1940), Kate Frances (1887-1964) and Winifred Gladys (1897-1897).
Henry worked as a bricklayer’s labourer, and the family lived at 61 East Road for over 62 years. In 1921 he was documented as a self employed builder/house decorator. By 1939 he had retired, and both he and Mary were still living at 61 East Road. He died at home following a fall, aged 84 years old and was buried in the Holy Trinity area of Mill Road Cemetery on 22 November. Mary was unable to attend the funeral.
Mary Ann Loates (née Bement) (1 March 1859 – 28 January 1944)
Mary was born in Cambridge, the youngest daughter of William Henry Bement (1820 -1895) and Sarah (née Hall) (1818-1885). She was baptised on 27 March 1859 and grew up at 65 East Road (1861) and 45 Fitzroy Street (1871). William Bement was a shoemaker and Methodist preacher. Mary married Henry Loates when she was 17 years old and died a few weeks after him. She was buried in the Holy Trinity area of the Cemetery on 1 February 1944.
Mary’s parents William and Sarah, and sister Sarah (1846-1868) are also buried at Mill Road Cemetery. They are buried in the St. Andrew the Less area of the Cemetery, and their grave(s) has not yet been identified either.
Winifred Gladys Loates (May 1897 – June 1897)
Winifred was the youngest child of Henry and Mary Ann Loates. She was baptised on 3 June 1897 and died at 61 East Road aged 5 days old. She was buried in the St. Andrew the Less area of the Cemetery on 5 June 1897.
Henry and Mary’s granddaughter Gladys is also buried in the Cemetery
Gladys Florence Pearce (1911 – 10 March 1920)
Gladys was the third of six children born to George Alfred Pearce (1881-1947) and Kate Frances ( Loates) (1887-1964). George and Kate had married in 1906 and initially lived at 60 East Road. George worked as a bookbinder and machine ruler and by 1920 was living and working at Fen Stanton – Gladys lived with her grandmother Mary at 61 East Road. Gladys died aged 8 years old after a sudden ‘hemorrhage of the brain. She had gone to school at Brunswick Council School, but when returning complained of a headache. She was still no better after dinner, and a doctor was called. The little girl was taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in a motor but ‘the doctor who examined her when she arrived said she was ‘too far gone”. An inquest was held and a post mortem examination found that he had died of a ‘hemorrhage of the brain – a most unusual thing in a child of her age’. She was buried in the Holy Trinity area of the Cemetery on 16 March 1920.
Henry’s father William and three of his siblings are also buried in Mill Road Cemetery
William Loates (1826 – October 1906)
William was born in Cambridge and married Frances Reeve (1837-1920) on 18 July 1852 at St. Andrew the Less Church. The couple had at least 11 children: William John (1856-1927), Henry James, Mary Ann (1862-1930), Albert Edward (1863-), Charles Reeve (1865-1941), Frederick Arthur (1867-1931), Francis Augustus (1869-1888), Elizabeth Rebecca (1871-1945), Eliza Fanny (1875-1878), Herbert George (1878-1878) and Herbert George (1880-1941). William served in the miltary in Adelaide, Australia where their first two children were born, but their third child Mary was born in Cambridge in 1862.
William worked as a labourer and the family lived at 41 New Street (1871-at least 1889) and 25 Albert Street (at least 1891 onwards). He died at home and was buried in the St. Andrew the Less area of the Cemetery on 25 October.
Eliza Fanny Loates (1875 – December 1878)
Eliza was the daughter of William and Frances and was baptised on 26 September 1875 at St. Andrew the Less Church. She died at New Street aged 3 years odl and was buried in the St. Andrew the Less area of the Cemetery on 19 December.
Herbert George Loates (February 1878 – August 1878)
Herbert died at New Street aged 6 months old and was buried in the St. Andrew the Less area of the Cemetery on 14 August.
Francis Augustus Loates (1869 – December 1888)
Known as Frank, he was baptised on 5 September 1869 at St. Andrew the Less Church. He died at home aged 19 years old and was buried in the St. Andrew the Less area of the Cemetery on 20 December.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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