CFHS code : HT447a
This monument was not recorded by CHFHS but was given this code as it reflects the area where it was found
Parish : Holy Trinity
Monument
This small broken cross lies 9 rows west of the eastern path in the parish of Holy Trinity, Just past the bend from the south path. It is hidden under a bushes and hard to access. The inscription of metal letters is intact as is the carved flower that adorns the cross.
Inscription
In Loving Memory of MABEL MATILDA
PHYLLIS BEALES
Died Oct 11 1905
Aged 16 years.
Mabel Matilda Phyllis Beales (1889 – 11 October 1905)
Mabel was the youngest child of John (Jack) and Ann Beales. She grew up at 78 Great Eastern Street, and died at home aged 16 years old.
Mabel’s parents and sister are also buried in the Holy Trinity area of Mill Road Cemetery. Their grave has not yet been identified
Ann Beales (née Levell) (1856 – February 1915)
Ann was born in Kirtling, a small village to the south east of Newmarket. She was the second daughter of Jonas (1818-1861) and Susan (née Chambers) (1822-1889) and grew up in Kirtling, where her father was a horse keeper. She was baptised when she was 9 years old on 14 April 1865 and married Jack Beales on 24 November 1877 at All Saints Church, Newmarket. John was a railway worker and the couple had seven children: John William Levell (1877-1940), William Thomas (1878-1941), Florence Betsy (1880-1928), George Ernest (1884-1962), Mary Amelia (known as Polly) (1884-1946), George Samuel (1886-1923) and Mabel. Their first three children were born in Newmarket, but the family had moved to 78 Great Eastern Street by 1884. Ann died at home aged 59 years old and her funeral was held on 9 February.
John Robert Beales (1855 – 24 December 1924)
Known as Jack, he was the son of labourer Thomas (1831-1857) and Harriett (née Diss) (1831-1911) and was born in Horseheath. He was baptised there on 23 December 1855 and grew up firstly with his widowed mother (1861) and then with his mother and step father James Noble (1871). Aged 17 he was working as an agricultural worker, but later worked on the railway as a shunter (1881) and then railway guard (at least 1891 onwards). After he was widowed he lived at Great Eastern Street with daughter Bessie and died at home. His funeral was held on 31 December and ‘many of his fellow employees were present at the graveside’.
Florence Betsy Beales (1880 – 28 April 1828)
Known as Bessie, she was born in Newmarket and baptised there on 4 April 1880. She lived at home with her parents and is thought to have suffered ‘from fits’, which prevented her from working. She was connected with the Salvation Army, Tenison Road for many years and died aged 48 years at Fulbourn Asylum ‘after a very long illness’.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
Parish burial records
by Claire Martinsen and Mary Naylor
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