CFHS code : AS12
Parish : All Saints
Inscription : In Loving Memory of LUCY SMITH d 23 Dec 1938 age 76
Monument : Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.203431, 0.13770102 – click here for location
Monument
These kerbstones lie 2 rows west of the central path and 5 plots north of the north path. The grey polished stone, inscriptions of metal letters, flower holder and corner posts are in good condition As this is an area usually left to grow wild it is not usually visible from the path but is just to the south west of the Robin bird stone.and directly behind the small Fromont headstone.
Inscription
In Loving Memory of LUCY SMITH who died Dec 23rd 1938 age 76 years
‘Into they hands’
Lucy Smith (1862 – 23 December 1938)
Lucy was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire and was the daughter of John and Ann Maria (née Elland). John worked as a railway guard and by 1871 the family had moved to live in Ainsworth Street, Cambridge. John Smith is believed to have died in 1875 and Lucy’s mother then married widower/fellow railway worker Joseph Turner (1828-1899) in 1880.
Lucy lived with her step father, mother, siblings and step-siblings at 98 Ainsworth Street, and by the age of 18 was working as a draper’s assistant. In 1891 she had moved to live at Swan Street in Loughborough and worked as a confectionery business manageress, before returning back to Cambridge by at least 1901. She lived at 2 Cockburn Street (1901) with her mother and step-sister Ethel, and was documented as being a house assistant in that year. By 1911 she was living at 9 Earl Street with Ethel and lodger Ellen Newcomb and worked as a ladies outfitter’s assistant. Lucy died at 10 McGrath Avenue aged 76 years old.
Source:
Ancestry
by Claire Martinsen
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