CFHS code : PL326
Parish : St Paul
Inscription : In Loving Memory of my dear husband ANTOINE LOUIS PORCHERON b Mar 29 1867 d Oct 5 1895
Monument : Stone cross
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
Roughly eighteen rows from the central path and fifteen rows from the south path hidden in ivy. The cross has fallen since the CFHS survey of 1999 but the inscription is still intact, though hard to access as often hidden by ivy and bramble.
Inscription
In Loving Memory of my dear husband
ANTOINE LOUIS PORCHERON
born March 29 1867 died Oct 5 1895
Antoine Louis Porcheron (1867-1895)
Antoine was the youngest son of Antoine Emile and Charlotte Porcheron. He attended boarding school in Braintree.
He married Lilla Annie Sale on 15th December 1892. Lilla was born in Bedfordshire and moved to Weston Colville where her father farmed at Lark Hall Farm, he died when she was 10.
On his father’s death in 1893 Antoine took over the family livery stable, but he died less than 2 years later.
After Antoine’s death Lilla married Edward Chamberlain who ran a livery stable.
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