CFHS code : AL103
Parish : St Andrew the Less
Inscription : GEORGE ARTHUR SWANN d Oct 11th 1865 aged [10] months also of JOHN HENRY SWANN d June —- 1873 aged 12 PRISCILLA SWANN d April 1 1888 aged 58
Monument : Headstone (broken and fallen)
Above information amended from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
We have not found this broken headstone but presume it may be hidden under ivy and bramble to the east of the central path where it bends towards the north gate. There is another family monument in this area.
Inscription
GEORGE ARTHUR SWANN d Oct 11th 1865 aged [10] months
Also of JOHN HENRY SWANN d June —- 1873 aged 12
PRISCILLA SWANN d April 1 1888 aged 58
Priscilla Swann (née Roffe) (1830 – 1 April 1880)
Priscilla was born in Cambridge and married James Swann at Christs Church, Cambridge on 24th June 1851. James and Priscilla had at least ten children: James (1852-1883), Eliza (1854-1932), Mary Ann (1858-1935), John Henry (1860-1873), Charles (1862-1943), Priscilla (1863-1889), George Arthur (1865-1865), Thomas (1866-1934) Emma Louisa (1867-1943) and George Henry (1869-1937).
James was a carter/coprolite digger who was also a publican and ran the Bird in the Hand Pub at 234/235 Newmarket Road. In 1871 he was employing 80 men and boys, and in 1881 described himself as a master lime merchant and publican employing 7 men and 4 boys. Priscilla died at the Bird in the Hand pub aged 58 years old.
George Arthur Swann (1865 – 11 October 1865)
George was the fourth son of James and Priscilla Swann. His birth was registered in early 1865 and he died in the October of the same year.
John Henry Swann (1860 – June 1873)
John Henry was the second son of James and Priscilla Swann. He died at Newmarket Road aged 12 years old.
James Swann continued to run the Bird in the Hand pub after Priscilla’s death . In 1901 he was living with his son George Henry at 2 Walton Terrace. He died in 1906 and was buried in this parish – possibly here.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen