CFHS code : AS247
Parish : All Saints
Inscription : In Loving Memory of JOSEPH the beloved husband of LYDIA SADLER d [Dec] 28 1926 aged 45 also ROY WILLIS grandson aged 6 months also LYDIA JANE SADLER d August 21 1960 aged 75
Monument : Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
These kerb stones, with corner posts and flower holder, are located in the parish of All Saints, midway between the central and west paths (14 rows from the central path) & roughly 19 plots to the south of the north path. The whole is intact but encroaching bramble make it hard to locate in the summer. The carved inscriptions are very eroded and hard to read.
Inscription
In Loving Memory of JOSEPH the beloved husband of LYDIA SADLER d [Dec] 28 1926 aged 45
Also ROY WILLIS grandson aged 6 months
Also LYDIA JANE SADLER d August 21 1960 aged 75
Joseph Albert Sadler (1881 – 28 December 1926)
Joseph was born in Coton and was the son of Thomas and Lizzie. By 1891 the family had moved to live at Barton Road (1901), 131 Catherine Street (1911) and Thomas worked as a farm labourer. Joseph also worked as a farm labourer and married widow Lydia Taylor in 1918 and they lived at 62 Thoday Street.. In 1921 he was working for A.J. Grain and Sons, Station Farm, Cambridge. The couple had one daughter: Joan Kathleen (1918-1964). He died ‘suddenly’ at Addenbrookes Hospital aged 45 years old and his funeral was held at Mill Road Cemetery Chapel on New Years Day 1927.
Roy Michael Joseph Willis (21 August 1939 – 26 February 1940)
Roy was the eldest child of Joan Sadler and her husband Drummer Percival (Percy) Henry Wingfield Willis (1912-1982). His funeral was held on 29 February and his greaving parents left a wreath at the graveside which read ‘in loving memory of our darling boy from his ever-loving Mummy and Daddy’.
Lydia Jane Sadler (née Neaves) (6 March 1886 – 21 August 1960)
Lydia was born in Barrington and was the daughter of Charles and Sarah Ann (née Neaves). In 1901 Lydia was working as a domestic servant for John and Louisa Badcock in Harston and then married Ernest William Taylor (1884-1917) on 13 September 1909 in St. Pancras, London. The couple moved to live in Leytonstone, Essex and in 1911 Ernest was working as a butcher’s slaughterman. By 1916 they had moved to live at 109 Burnside, Mill Road. Ernest was killed in the 1st World War and was buried in Savona in Italy.
Lydia married Joseph Sadler the following year and in 1939 was living at 21 Devonshire Road with her daughter and grandson Roy. In 1960 she was documented as running the Stockholm Café in Hardwick. She died in Huntingdon aged 74 years old (although her grave monument reads 75 years).
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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