CFHS code : MG158
Parish : St Mary the Great
Inscription : In Loving Memory of My dear husband JAMES PEACOCK d June 5th 1935 aged 71 ELIZA PEACOCK d Feb 19th 1951 aged 87
Monument : Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.202151, 0.13837132 – click here for location
Monument
Hidden under trees & bushes to the east of the east path and close to the east wall. We have not yet found this set of kerbstones.
Inscription
In Loving Memory of My dear husband JAMES PEACOCK d June 5th 1935 aged 71
ELIZA PEACOCK d Feb 19th 1951 aged 87
James Alfred (Alfred) Peacock (1864 – 5 June 1935)
Alfred was born in Eltisley, a village eleven miles west of Cambridge and was baptised there on 17 April 1864. He was the son of agricultural labourer John and Mary Ann and he grew up in Waterbeach (1871) and then Landbeach (1881). Aged 17 Alfred was working as a coprolite digger and later worked as a general labourer for Cambridge council. He married Eliza in 1895 and they had three children: Grace Ellen (1896-1977), Violet Amy (1902-1978) and a child who died as an infant. The family lived at 1 Romsey Terrace, Mill Road (1901) and 7 Cyprus Road (at least 1911 onwards). Alfred died at Addenbrooke’s Hospital aged 71 years old.
Eliza Peacock (née Corn) (19 November 1863 – 19 February 1951)
Eliza was the daughter of Abraham and Eliza (née Jakins) and grew up in Waterbeach where her father was a farm bailiff. She worked as a cook before marrying Alfred Peacock, working at 4 Warkworth Street (1881) and then Belsize Park Gardens, Hampstead (1891). She continued to live at 7 Cyprus Road after she was widowed.
Source:
Ancestry
by Claire Martinsen
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