CFHS code : AL107
Parish : St Andrew the Less
Inscription : Sacred to the Memory of ALLICE WELLUM b Nov 26 1839 d Jany 19th 1866 also of WILLIAM WELLUM father of the above d Sep 25 1866 aged 68
Monument : Headstone
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
This fallen headstone lies 1 row to the east of the central path just before it bends towards the north gate.
It is very badly eroded with nothing legible after William’s name. As it is very often covered by grass it can be found a few monuments north of James Reynolds AL128.
Inscription
Sacred to the Memory of ALLICE WELLUM born Nov 26 1839 died Jany 19th 1866
Also of WILLIAM WELLUM father of the above d Sep 25 1866 aged 68
Allice Wellum (1839-1866)
There is some discrepancy about the age of Alice. She is believed to have been born in November 1835, rather than November 1839. Unfortunately the inscription on the headstone is too badly eroded to be sure what it says. The dates used on the grave monument would have made her 26 years old when she died. Using the dates on her baptism records/census records she was 30 years old when she died, but newspaper announcements of her death said she was 23 years old and the burial record 24!. Her name appears to have been spelt with one L through her life, but was inscribed with 2 L’s on the grave monument.
Alice was born in Sudbury, Suffolk and was the youngest daughter of William and Alice Wellum. Her mother died when she was an infant and she grew up at 19 Burleigh Street (1851) and 8 Church Street (1861). Her father was a shoemaker and Alice worked as a tailoress/dressmaker. She died at home and her funeral was held on 25 January 1866.
William Wellum (1798 – 25 September 1866)
William was born in Sudbury and married Alice (1798-1841). They had at least nine children: William (1819-), Harriet (1821-), George (1824-), Charles (1826-), John (1828-), James (1830-), Mary (1832-), Alfred (1834-1834) and Alice. Alice (Snr) died at Wellington Row, Cambridge in February 1841 and was buried at St. Andrew the Less (before Mill Road Cemetery had opened). William was a shoemaker and died at home ‘after a long illness borne with great patience’.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
Parish burial records transcribed by CFHS
by Claire Martinsen
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