CFHS code : AS158
Parish : All Saints
Inscription : In Affectionate Remembrance of THOMAS GEORGE ROWE of Cambridge d 2nd Dec 1863 aged 54 also LUCY ROWE wife of the above d 13th March 1893 aged 86
Monument : Headstone/Ground slab
Above information amended from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
This headstone stands, to the west of and facing the central path, in the parish of All Saints. The large fir tree behind it has branches that hang over the monument. The carved inscription is still legible but difficult to read due to the way the stone has weathered.
Inscription
In Affectionate Remembrance of THOMAS GEORGE ROWE of Cambridge
Who died the 2nd of Dec. 1863 aged 54 years.
“What wait I for Lord. My hope is in Thee.”
Also LUCY ROWE wife of the above
Who died the 13th of March 1893 aged 86 years.
“Make them to be numbered with Thy saints.”
Thomas George Rowe (c.1809 – 2 December 1863)
Thomas was born in London and married Martha Mallet (1809-1851) on 25 December 1837 at St. Peter-upon-Cornhill Church in London. When he married Thomas was documented as being a cordwainer, but by 1841 was running a coffee house from 11 Blackmoor Street. He and Martha had at least four children: Emma Martha (1840-1842), Emily Caroline (1842-1881), Thomas Cheesman (1845-1914) and Maria Amelia (1848-1919). He was widowed in March 1851 and married again on 7 July 1852 to Lucy Loving. Both of his wives were from Peterborough so there might have been a connection between the two women.
By 1861 Thomas and Lucy had moved to 2 Green Street in Cambridge with his three surviving children. They ran a Lodging House from the house, but when Thomas died in 1863 he was described as a College Servant.
Lucy Rowe (née Loving) (1807 – 3 March 1893)
Lucy was the daughter of Robert and Ann and was born in Peterborough. She was baptised at St. John’s Church on 15 February 1807. In 1851 she was working as a domestic servant at Hinchingbrooke House in Huntingdon, which was the home of John William Montague (1811-1884), Earl of Sandwich and Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire. Lucy married Thomas Rowe when she was c.45 years old and after being widowed lived at 5 Wray’s Court, Sidney Street with her two step-daughters. She ran a Lodging House there and was also described as a college servant. She died at home in 1893 aged 86 years old.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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