CFHS code : AL596
Parish : St Andrew the Less
Inscription : Sacred to the Memory of MARY ANN MOORE d Aug 28 1857 aged 24 also JAMES MOORE d Sep 16 1833 aged 27 also CHARLOTTE his wife d Nov 26 1893 aged 86
Monument : Headstone
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
Inscription
Sacred to the Memory of MARY ANN MOORE who died Aug. 28. 1857. Aged 24 years.
Also JAMES MOORE who died Sep. 16 1833 aged 27 years
“Their sun is gone down while it is yet day”
And of CHARLOTTE his wife who died Nov 26 1893 aged 86 years
Mary Ann Moore (1833 – 28 August 1857)
Mary was the only daughter of James and Charlotte. She died at East Road and her funeral was held on 3 September 1857.
James Moore (d1806 – 16 September 1833)
James married Charlotte Bland on 21 September 1832 at St. Andrew the Less Church and they had one daughter: Mary Ann. He died aged 27 years old.
Charlotte Moore (née Bland) (1807 – 26 November 1893)
Charlotte was born in Bottisham, a village six miles east of Cambridge and was widowed less than a year after her marriage. She worked as a housekeeper to a merchant, who lived on East Road (1851), before moving to 5 Fitzroy Street, where she worked as a seamstress (1861- 1871). In April 1871 she won an election to get a place at the Knight and Mortlocks Almshouses, King Street. There were 38 candidates for 2 places, and Charlotte lived at the Almshouses for the next 22 years. She died there aged 86 years old and was buried with her husband and daughter on 29 November 1893.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
Parish burial records transcribed by CFHS
by Claire Martinsen
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