CFHS code : BE56
Parish : St Bene’t
Inscription : In Memory of FREDERICK RICKETT d June 17 1867 aged 49 also JANE wife of FREDERICK RICKETT died on Good Friday 1885 aged 65
Monument : Coped stone
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.202579, 0.13659179 – click here for location
Monument
This coped stone lies in open ground roughly 12 rows east of the west path. We were only able to check the inscription for Frederick which is on the southern edge. The inscription for Jane is now below ground level.
Inscription
In Memory of FREDERICK RICKETT died June 17 1867 aged 49 years
Also JANE wife of FREDERICK RICKETT died on Good Friday 1885 aged 65 years
Frederick Rickett (1818 – 17 June 1867)
Frederick was born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire and baptised there on 4 December 1818. He was the son of John, a stonemason, and Ann. He became a boot maker. His family had moved to Cambridge by 1830 and were living at 9 Doric St in 1841. He married Jane Acock at St Andrew the Less on 22 September 1842. They had at least one child: Jane Rebecca (1843-1905). The family lived at 3 Trumpington Street and Frederick employed 2 men in his bootmaking business. They also took in lodgers, with Frederick advertising in local newspapers ‘Lodgings – two or three gentlemen may be accomodated with comfortable bedrooms with use of a sitting room, in the best part of Trumpington Street – terms moderate’. In 1861 they also had three lodgers living with them at Trumpington Street which is where he died aged 49 years old.
Jane Rickett (née Acock) (1820 – 3 April 1885)
Jane was the daughter of bricklayer Edward (1772-1825) and his wife Martha (née Foster) (1791-1848) and was born in Stepney. She was baptised at St. Anne’s church, Limehouse on 10 June 1821. At the time of her marriage she was living with her mother at 10 Cambridge Place, Cambridge and she was working as a dressmaker. Martha lived with Jane & Frederick in Trumpington St as she died there in 1848 and is also buried in this parish. After Jane was widowed she ran a Lodging House from 3 Trumpington Street and lived there with her daughter Jane until Jane’s marriage to builder George Moules Bates (1836-1918) in 1883. Jane died at Trumpington Street aged 65 years old.
Sources:
Ancestry
CFHS Transcripts of parish records
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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