CFHS code : AG380
Parish : St Andrew the Great
Inscription : In Loving Memory of HENRY VALENTINE WALPOLE d 21st — [19–] aged 23 also FRANCES MAY WALPOLE b 30 May 1886 d [13] May 1944
Monument : Stone cross/Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.202944, 0.1367703 – click here for location
Monument
Inscription
(completed using the parish registers)
east face
In Loving Memory of HENRY VALENTINE WALPOLE died 21st December 1911 aged 23
west face
also FRANCES MAY WALPOLE born 30 May 1886 died [13] May 1944
Henry (Harry) Valentine Walpole (1888 – 21 December 1911)
Harry was born in Leyton, Essex and was the son of Frederick and Annie Walpole. His father was a railway clerk and the family had moved to 10 Devonshire Road, Cambridge by the time he was 3 years old (1891). In April 1911 he was living with his family at Evansville. Cherry Hinton Road and was working as a railway clerk. He died at home later the same year.
Frances May Walpole (30 May 1886 – 13 May 1944)
Frances was Harry’s elder sister and was also born in Leyton. She was baptised at St. Paul’s Church, Stratford on 21 July 1886. Aged 14 she was living with her family at 26 Ross Street and was working as a housemaid, but 1911 she was the manageress of a ‘dying and dry cleaning company’. After her parents’ deaths she lived at various addresses in the city, and in 1939 was living at 27 Mackenzie Road. She died in Cambridge aged 57 years old.
Frederick H. White Walpole (1861 – 31 July 1912)
Frederick was born in Edmonton, the son of solicitor Henry Walpole. In 1881 he was lodging in Hackney, and was working as a clerk for Great Eastern Railway at Liverpool Station, before marrying Annie Pively on 14 July 1883 at Christ Church, Hackney. They had six children: Frederick Hilton (1884-1929), Frances May, Henry Valentine, Albert Richard (1891-1891), Clarissa Grace (1893-1893) and Bernard Victor (1895-1964). The family moved to Cambridge when Fredrick was appointed chief booking and pay clerk at Cambridge Station. His duties included paying railway workers on a Thursday and dealing with all season tickets. The family lived at Devonshire Road and Ross Street, before moving to Cherry Hinton Road. Frederick was an active member of the Ancient Order of Foresters and ‘took an active interest’ in the Railway Clerk’s Assocation.
He died at home and newspapers reported ‘he had not been in good health for some time past, but only took to his bed a fortnight ago. At 6pm on Wednesday he had a severe heart seizure from which he never rallied, and he died at 9.03pm the same night at the age of 51’. His funeral was held on 3 August and his coffin was carried by four railway workers. Many of his fellow railway workers and station masters were present but it was reported ‘a great many were unable to be present owing to the holiday traffic’.
The Cambridge Daily News ran a short obituary which said he was ‘intimately known not only to the travelling fraternity but also to traders generally, amongst whom his willingness to oblige and straightforward and conscientious manner earned for him wide respect and esteem. All members of the Cambridge Station staff valued their association with him’.
Annie Frances Walpole (née Pisely) (1856 – January 1933)
Annie was the daughter of corn merchant Thomas Pisely and Louisa (nee Kinchlow) and was born in Marylebone, London. After she was widowed she lived at 6 Marshall Road (at least 1915-1924) and 6 Bentinck Street (at least 1931-1932). She died in Cambridge aged 76 years old.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newpaper archives
by Claire Martinsen and Mary Naylor