CFHS code : AL535

Parish : St Andrew the Less

Inscription : Sacred to the Memory of BETSEY the beloved wife of ROBERT MODEN d Augst 28 1861 aged 28 also of HENRY JOHN MODEN only child of the above d Dec 17 1859 aged 8 months

Monument : Headstone

Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey

Moden headstone 2017

Monument

Inscription

Betsey Moden (née Wimpress) (c.1833 – 18 August  1861)

Betsey was born in St. Ives, near Huntingdon and married Robert Moden (1835-1908) on 8 July 1858 at the Zion Chapel, Cambridge.  Robert was a baker and in 1861 the couple were living at 57 Burleigh Street.  Betsey died at Burleigh Street aged 28 years old and was described as ‘the beloved wife of Mr. Robert Moden’.

Henry John Moden (c. April 1859 – 17 December 1859)

Henry also died at Burleigh Street.

Sources:

Ancestry

Newspaper archives

by Claire Martinsen

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Betsey Moden; Henry John Moden