CFHS code : ED80
Parish : St Edward
Inscription : In Memory of EDITH OGDEN d July 23 1915 aged 18 and ELIZABETH OGDEN d May 11 1952 also of LUCY OGDEN d Jan 19 1917 aged 14 years 10 months and of CHARLES OGDEN d June 16 1952
Monument : Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.203236, 0.13706235 – click here for location
Monument
The kerb stones have fallen and some of the letters from the inscription are missing.
Inscription
In Memory of EDITH OGDEN died July 23 1915 aged 18
and ELIZABETH OGDEN died May 11 1952
also of LUCY OGDEN died Jan 19 1917 aged 14 years 10 months
and of CHARLES OGDEN died June 16 1952
Elizabeth Ogden [nee Cuckson] (27 January 1870 – 11 May 1952)
Elizabeth was born in Gainsborough in Lincolnshire. She was the daughter of Thomas Cuckson, and by the age of 21 [1891] was still in Gainsborough and working as a housemaid. She married Charles Ogden in 1893 when she was 23 years old. They moved to March in Cambridgeshire where Charles worked as a railway porter.
They had seven children in total: Mary [1895-], Edith [1897-1915], Hilda [1899-1984], Lucy [1902-1917], William Arthur [1907-], Ethel [1909-] and another child who died in infancy. Elizabeth and Charles lived in March until at least 1912, but had moved to Cambridge by at 1915.
In 1939 Charles and Elizabeth were living at 247 Mill Road, and Charles was retired. She died aged 82 years old.
Charles Ogden (25 July 1868 – 16 June 1952)
Charles was born in Digby in Lincolnshire. He was the son of John and Elizabeth Ogden, and his father worked as an agricultural labourer but later was a groom and gardener. He grew up in Digby, but by the age of 23 was living in Gainsborough and working as a railway porter. He continued to work in the railway – and was eventually a ‘railway foreman porter’ [sic]. He died a few weeks after Elizabeth aged 83 years old.
Edith Ogden (c.1897 – 23 July 1915)
Edith was the second daughter of Charles and Elizabeth. She was born in March, Cambridgeshire, and died in Cambridge aged 18 years old.
Lucy Ogden (c. March 1902 – 19 January 1917)
Lucy was the fourth child of Charles and Elizabeth. She was born in March, Cambridgeshire and died in Cambridge aged 14 years old.
Claire Martinsen
Source: Ancestry
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