CFHS code : MG179
Parish : St Mary the Great
Inscription : In Loving Memory of my dear wife ANN TYTE 30 Jul 1935 aged 45 husband REGINALD BERTIE TYTE 27 Feb 1951 aged 64
Monument : Headstone/Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.202069, 0.13839668 – click here for location
Monument
The Tyte headstone nestles under a tree by the east wall.
Inscription
Ann Tyte (née Miller) (1890 – 30 July 1935)
Ann was born in Grantchester and was the only child of Clements Alexander and Mary Ann (née Layton) Miller. Clements was a slater, and Mary worked as a launderess and they lived at Selwyn Road, Newnham. Aged 21 (1911) Ann was working as a dressmaker and on 26 December 1912 married Bertie Tyte in Grantchester. Bertie was working as a groom when they married and they had at least one child: Kenneth Reginald Clements (1916-1999). In 1918/1919 the family were documented as living at the Green Man pub in Grantchester. By 1934 they had moved to live at 138 Thoday Street. Ann died aged 45 years old.
Reginald Bertie Tyte (1886 – 27 February 1951)
Bertie was the son of George and Julia and grew up at 71 Histon Road. His father was a groom and by the age of 14 Bertie was working as a ‘jam factory lad’. In 1911 he was working at Sludge Hall, Leicestershire as a groom. He enlisted in the army in September 1914 and his enlistment papers showed he had already served with the Kings Royal Rifle Corps, although the dates for this are not known. In the 1st World War he was a Corporal in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
In March 1920 he was summonsed to the Magistrate’s court for ‘driving a motor car at Sidney-street, on February 27th, which bore no identification plate’. He pleaded guilty and said he was unaware the plate was missing. He was fined 2s,6d. At the same session Pembroke College student Thomas Spence was fined 10s for riding a bicycle without a light, so Bertie seems to have got off lightly!
In October 1920 he placed adverts in local newspapers advertising ‘1,200 pairs of trousers for sale – as supplied to London Special constables, navy blue, new, with shell bag pockets, 18s 6d’ each. The 1939 registration records for Bert have not been found, but it is known he was still iving at Thoday Street at that time. He married widow Helena Rose Rowell (née Ingle) (1881-1971) in 1946 and they went to live in Swavesey where Bertie died aged 64 years old.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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