Ivett & Reed, long-standing Cambridge firm of stonemasons, established in 1896. The firm was located initially at 45 Mill Road [see illustration], near to the gates of Mill Road Cemetery; later it established its head office at 615 Newmarket Road, and the Mill Road office closed. The firm continues in business to this day.
In Mill Road Cemetery, graves built by Ivett & Reed exceed, by a very large margin, those built by any other stonemason. Examples of their work can be seen in every section of the Cemetery, with the signature ‘Ivett.Reed’ or ‘Ivett-Reed’ or ‘Ivett & Reed’.
The following are known to have been built by the firm (the numbers given here are those assigned in the transcriptions by the Cambridgeshire Family History Society):
All Saints 43: Thomas & Amelia Sargent (headstone, kerbstones and flowerholder)
All Saints 55: John & Florence Bullen (headstone and kerbstones in red marble, ground slab) [see illustrations]
Holy Sepulchre 61: Hall family (headstone, footstone)
Holy Sepulchre 70: Ivett (headstone with ornate figure of woman, kerbstones) [senior member of Ivett & Reed]
Holy Trinity 352: Goddard family (kerbstones)
Holy Trinity 417: Amy Parmiter (headstone, kerbstones)
Holy Trinity 492: Arnold family (headstone, kerbstones)
Holy Trinity 596: James & Harriet Batterbee (kerbstones)
St Andrew the Less 57: Gault family (headstone)
St Andrew the Less 58: Baldrey family (headstone, kerbstones)
St Andrew the Less 91: Sarah Dawson & Elizabeth Fletcher (headstone, kerbstones)
St Andrew the Less 93: Bailey & Boreham (headstone)
St Andrew the Less 225a: Carter family (headstone, kerbstones)
St Andrew the Less 228: Francis & Mary Rayner (kerbstones)
St Andrew the Less 271: Talbot family (headstone)
St Andrew the Less 286a: Netti & Margaret Storey (kerbstones, broken)
St Andrew the Less 335: Elizabeth & Charles Lofts (headstone, kerbstones)
St Andrew the Less 446: Isabelle Rooke & Marie Pratte (headstone)
St Andrew the Less 570: Philip & L J Milburn (headstone)
St Andrew the Great 257: Collier family (stone cross, kerbstones; in grey marble) [see illustration]
St Andrew the Great 295: Brand family (kerbstones)
St Andrew the Great 404: Pull family (stone cross, kerbstones, broken)
St Benedict 89: Johnson family (headstone) [see illustrations]
St Edward 35: the Hills family (headstone)
St Michael 8: Sands family (headstone)
St Paul 8: Furniss family (headstone)
St Paul 424: Hagger family (headstone, broken)
St Paul 544: Slingsby family (headstone, kerbstones) [see illustration]
By Ian Bent
