CFHS code : AL473
Parish : St Andrew the Less
Inscription : In Loving Memory of our dear parents EMMA RAYNER d Jan 20 1916 aged 70 also of BENJAMIN RAYNER d March 29 1922 aged 78
Monument : Kerb stones (broken)
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
This set of double kerbs lie under bushes towards the southern boarder of the parish of Andrew the Less roughly 11 rows east of the central path. Many of the metal letters are missing and corner posts fallen.
Inscription
n Loving Memory of our dear parents
EMMA RAYNER died Jan 20 1916 aged 70 years
Also of BENJAMIN RAYNER d March 29 1922 aged 78 years
‘Rest in the Lord: wait patiently for Him
And He shall [give thee thy heart’s desires’
Emma Rayner (née Bowers) (1845 – 20 January 1916)
Emma was born in Chesterton and was the daughter of Harriett. She married Benjamin Rayner and they had ten children: Mary Ann (1862-), Alfred (1865-1931), Kate (1871-), Ernest (1874-c.1954), Mabel Agnes (1876-1949), Herbert Benjamin (1880-) and four further children who died as infants. Benjamin was a railway foreman and the family lived at 102 Ainsworth Street (1871/1881), 13 Perowne Street (1891) and then 5 St. Phillip’s Road (at least 1911 onwards). Benjamin later worked as a railway engine driver, but had retired by 1911. Emma died at St Phillip’s Road ‘after a lingering illness’ and her funeral took place on 25 January at the Railway Misson Hall followed by interment at Mill Road Cemetery.
Benjamin Rayner (1844 – 29 March 1922)
Benjamin was born in Landbeach and was the son of wheelwright William Rayner and Emma. He died at St. Phillip’s Road aged 78 years old.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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