CFHS code : HS40
Parish : Holy Sepulchre
Inscription : headstone In Loving Memory of REBECCA LOCKWOOD d Dec 4 1927 age 85 kerbs EDITH HARRIET LOCKWOOD d Feb 23 1964 age 87 also GEORGE LOCKWOOD d Nov 24 1911 age 73
Monument : Headstone/Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.202324, 0.13773572 – click here for location
Monument
Inscription
Rebecca Lockwood (1842 – 4 December 1927)
Rebecca was born in East Dereham, Norfolk and married stone mason William Layton (1829-1872). They had one son: William (1866-1930) who was born in East Dereham before moving to live at 19 Princes Street in Cambridge (1871). William died the following year and Rebecca then married George Lockwood in 1873. They had five children: Phoebe Jane (1874-1960), Edith Harriet (1877-1964), Charlotte Anna (1880-1974) and a further two children who died as infants.
George was a house painter and the family lived at 6 Queens Street, Hills Road. In 1911 Rebecca was also working as a caretaker for a ‘church institute’. She died at home aged 85 years old.
Edith Harriet Lockwood (1877 – 1964)
Edith was born Harriet Edith, but appears to have been called Edith through her life. She worked as a daily domestic servant (1901) and lived at home with her parents until their deaths. She remained living at 6 Queen’s Street until at least 1960 and died at 11 Gray Road in 1964.
George Lockwood (1838 – 24 November 1911)
George is thought to have been the illegitimate son of Harriet (1823-) and grew up with his mother and grandparents William and Hannah Lockwood. By the age of 12 he was working as an errand boy and living at 2 Caroline Court, Coronation Street where his grandparents were receiving parish relief and his mother was working as a launderess. He worked as a painter from at least 1861 onwards and in 1871 was lodging with William and Jane Kirkup at 4 White’s Court. He died at Queen’s Street in 1911.
Queen Street is a lost road that originally ran between Prince’s Street (also lost) and George IV Street. It was parallel to both Union Road and Coronation Street. The Capturing Cambridge site records that the houses were compulsory purchased in 1960 by the City Council ‘having reached the end of their useful life and were unfit for human habitation’ which probably explains Edith’s move to Gray Road.
Sources:
Ancestry
Parish burial records transcribed by CFHS
by Claire Martinsen
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