CFHS code : AL311
Parish : St Andrew the Less
Inscription : In Loving Memory of SAMUEL ROSE d March 10th 1925 aged 72 also his wife CHARLOTTE ROSE d July 5th 1941 aged 84 AGNES G RAYNER daughter d June 11th 1926 aged 41 interred in Walmer churchyard E S ROSE d Oct 1st 1879 aged 5 months W J ROSE d Oct 22 1882 aged 5 years 10 months
Monument : Kerb stones/Urn
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
Inscription
Samuel Rose (29 December 1853 – 10 March 1925)
Samuel was born in Rampton, a village on the edge of the Fens and six miles to the north of Cambridge. He was baptised in Rampton on 21 July 1861 when he was seven years old. Samuel was the son of William and Sarah (née Young) and grew up on the High Street in Rampton where his father farmed 15 acres. In 1881 he was living at the Fountain Inn, Chesterton and was an apprentice baker to James Rose who was a baker and also ran the inn. He married Charlotte Bridgeman on 15 February 1876 at St. Andrew’s Church, Soham and they had thirteen children: William James Bridgeman (1876-1882), George Charles (1878-), Ernest Samuel (1879-1879), Ethel Maud (1880-1966), Ernest Samuel (1882-1958), Florence Beatrice (1883-1966), Agnes Gertrude (1885-1926), Annie Bertha (1888-1966), Lilian Bridgeman (1889-1978), Alice May (1891-1977), Arthur James (1892-1979), Grace Charlotte (1894-1977) and Edith Helena (1896-). The family lived at 85 York Street (1881) and then 14 Norfolk Terrace (at least 1891 onwards) and Samuel worked from home baking bread. He died at Norfolk Terrace aged 72 years old.
Charlotte Rose (née Bridgeman) (15 February 1857 – 5 July 1941)
Charlotte was the only daughter of James and Charlotte (née Horsley) and was born and raised in Soham. James was a blacksmith and Charlotte married Samuel Rose in Soham when she was 19 years old. In 1939 she was living at 14 Norfolk Terrace with daughter Alice and her husband Percy Matthew. Charlotte was documented as being incapacitated.
Agnes Gertrude Rayner (née Rose) (11 April 1885 – 11 June 1926)
Agnes was the third daughter of Samuel and Charlotte. She worked as a dressmaker and lived with her parents (1901/1911). She married John Rayner (1880-1953) in 1916 and the couple went to live in Walmer, Kent. They had at least three children: Hilda Joyce (1871-1963), Muriel Grace (1920-2008) and Leonard (1922-1922). Agnes died in Walmer and was buried there.
Ernest Stanley Rose (c. April 1879 – 1 October 1879)
Ernest died aged 5 months old.
William James Bridgeman Rose (9 December 1876 – 22 October 1882)
William was born in Soham and died in Cambridge a few weeks before his 6th birthday.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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