CFHS code : HT115
Parish : Holy Trinity
Inscription : In Loving Memory of our parents JOHN WILLIAM PORTER d July 31st 1953 aged 81 and EMMA PORTER d May 6th 1959 aged 82
Monument : Kerb stones/Flowerholder/ledger stone
Above information amended from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
This monument in the south east corner of the parish area of Holy Trinity is located 10 rows from the east wall and about 7 plots south of the south path as it bends to become the east path. There is a flower holder at the east end and a ledger stone at the west end. It is not known is this was once headstone that has now fallen. The inscription of metal letters is in a reasonably good condition with only a few letters damaged or missing. This area is often covered in vegetation but was cleared as part of the management plan in December 2023.
Inscription
In Loving Memory of our parents JOHN WILLIAM PORTER who died July 31st 1953 aged 81 years
And
EMMA PORTER who died May 6th 1959 aged 82 years
Re-united
John William Porter (21 October 1871 – 31 July 1953)
John was baptised at St. Paul’s Church on 28 September 1873 and grew up at 3 Eden Street with his parents Thomas Humphrey and Mary Ann. Thomas was an architect’s assistant and John worked as the same. He married Kate Rhoda Smart (1872-1903) in 1894 and they had four children: May Eunice Mary (1895-1936), John Thomas (1896-), Arthur Alfred (1896-1968) and Stanley Maurice (1899-1980). The family lived at 44 City Road and in 1901 John was documented as a builder’s clerk and architect’s assistant. Kate died in 1903 aged 31 years old and John married for a second time in 1905 to Emma Shallow. He and Emma had a further three children: Ronald Jack (1908-1997), Douglas Bernard (1913-2004) and one further child who died as an infant. They lived at 3 Eden Street (1911 onwards) and by 1939 he was documented a retired council inspector of plans.
His mother, who (died 1905), and father (died 1924) are also buried in this parish but we have not found a separate monument. His first wife, Kate, Is buried in the parish of St Andrew the Less but we have not found a monument for her.
Emma Porter (née Shallow) (21 May 1871 – 6 May 1959)
Emma was the daughter of James and Ruth Shallow and grew up at 44 Wellington Street (1881), 7 James Street (1891) and 26 Maids Causeway (1901). James was a labourer in a factory, and later worked as a carman (delivery driver) before opening a grocery shop at Maids Causeway. Emma worked as a mantle (coat) maker before her marriage to widower John Porter. She continued to live at 3 Eden Street after she was widowed but died at the Cambridge Maternity Hospital. She was 87 years old, so it is not known why she was at the hospital!
Source:
Ancestry
by Claire Martinsen
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