CFHS code : AS24
Parish : All Saints
Inscription : ———– ALFRED ROBERTS d Mar 1940 aged 64 also FREDERICK CHARLES ROBERTS d Nov 30th 1948 aged 62
Monument : Kerb stones
Above information amended from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.203478, 0.13760082 – click here for location
Monument
This set of kerbstones, located in the parish of All Saints, lie 6 rows west of the central path and about 10 metres north of the north path. This area is usually left to grow wild. The kerbstones and corner posts appear to be in good order but the carved inscription is badly eroded and barely legible.
Inscription
———– ALFRED ROBERTS d Mar 1940 aged 64
also FREDERICK CHARLES ROBERTS d Nov 30th 1948 aged 62
Relationship: brothers
Alfred Henry Roberts (10 November 1875 – 25 March 1940)
Alfred was the eldest child of Peter and Eliza (née List) and was born in Saffron Walden. By 1886 the family had moved to live at Sedgwick Street in Cambridge and Peter worked as a stonemason. Alfred worked briefly as a tailor (1891) but later also worked as a stonemason. In 1911 he was lodging in Maidstone, Kent with the Day family, and signed up to serve in the 1st World War in February 1916 by which time he was living in Islington. From his army records it is known he was 5ft 5inches tall. By 1935 he had returned to live at 161 Mill Road with his brother Fred and sister in law.
Frederick (Fred) Charles Roberts (9 March 1886 – 30 November 1948)
Fred was born in Cambridge but baptised in Saffron Walden on 13 June 1886. He briefly worked as a telegraph messenger (1901) and then also worked as a stonemason. He married Flora (Flo) Ellen Wain (1894-1974) in 1921 in her home town of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire. They lived with his widowed mother at 161 Mill Road, and then with his brother Charles. Fred died at home aged 62 years old.
Flo remained in Cambridge until at least 1960 and died in Ashby de la Zouch.
Source:
Ancestry
by Claire Martinsen
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