CFHS code : MG165
Parish : St Mary the Great
Inscription : In Loving Memory of WILBURN WELCH d 20 March 1936 aged 66 also wife MARY WELCH d 2 Sep 1956 aged 85
Monument : Headstone/Kerb stones/Flowerholder
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.202078, 0.13842635 – click here for location
Monument
Inscription
Wilburn Welch (1869 – 20 March 1936)
Wilburn was the son of grocer William Matthews Welch and Mary (née Wilburn). He was born in Hatfield, near Doncaster, Yorkshire and aged 21 was working in Goole as an assistant to butcher James Hill. He married Mary Temple in her home village of Howden (3 miles north of Goole) in 1898 and they had at least five children: Margaret Mary (1900-1985), William Alexander (1903-1986), Muriel Jane (1906-1982), Rose (1911-1999) and another child who died as an infant.
Wilburn worked as a butcher and they lived in Goole until at least 1902, then Rushden in Northamptonshire (c.1906-at least 1911). In 1911 Wilburn was noted as being the branch manager of a butchery shop. By 1929 the family had moved to live at 183 Mill Road, Cambridge and Wilburn ran a shop at 59 Coronation Street. They then lived at 15 Priory Street (1934/1935) and he died aged 66 years old.
Mary Welch (née Temple) (26 August 1871 – 2 September 1956)
Mary was born in Howden and grew up at the Derwent Nursery where her father Alexander was a gardener and seedsman. Her parents Alexander and Mary (née Dow) were Scottish and Mary was the youngest of their six children. In 1891 she was living in Goole with her elder brother Henry and his family and working as a dressmaker, which is probably where she met her future husband.
In 1939 she was living at 172 Gilbert Road with daughters Muriel and Rose.
Source:
Ancestry
by Claire Martinsen
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