Parish : St Paul’s
This grave was not found by CFHS during their survey of the Cemetery and is now thought to be unable to be found
Relationship: Siblings
William Richardson (November 1901 – November 1901
William was the only son of chef/cook William Richardson (1871-1924) and Elizabeth Dorothea Ann (known as Dora) (née Samworth) (1881-1963). His parents were both from Cambridge and married on 28 July 1901 at St. Paul’s Church.
William was born at 18 Gothic Street, and baptised on 17 November at St. Paul’s Church. He died aged 3 days old and was buried on 20 November.
Marie Louise Richardson (1 June 1904 – 20 December 1944)
Marie was born in Weymouth, where William was presumably working and was baptised at St. John’s Church, Melcombe Regis, Weymouth on 4 September 1904. At that time William and Dora were living at 20 Cassiobury Road, Weymouth. However by 1911 both had returned to Cambridge – William living with his parents and siblings at Herbert Street and working as a hotel cook, Dora and Marie living with her mother at 2 Warren Yard, Bridge Street. Dora worked as a college servant, as did her mother Louise. Dora and Marie were still living at 2 Warren’s Yard in 1921, and Marie was documented as being a whitesmith clerk.
Dora was documented as being married in both the 1911 and 1921 census, but does not appear to have lived with William. He died in August 1924 after a ‘very painful illness’ and was described as a ‘well known and highly respected chef for many years at Richmond, returning to Cambridge consequent upon his breakdown in health’. He was buried at Histon Road Cemetery on 2 September, and according to local newspaper reports neither Dora or Marie attended the funeral, which was dominated by his mother and siblings.
In 1939 Dora and Marie were living at 12 Manor Street – Dora was documented as a college servant and Marie as a dispatcher in a food processing factory (Chivers and Sons). Marie died ‘suddenly’ at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and her funeral was held in the Cemetery Chapel on 27 December. The immediate mourners were her mother, aunt, cousin and ‘several friends’. Dora thanked ‘the staff at Addenbrooke’s Hospital for their great kindness’.
Dora’s mother Louise is also buried in the St. Paul’s area of the Cemetery. It is not known if she was buried in the same grave as her grandchildren
Louisa Susan Ann Samworth (née Lowther) (21 December 1856 – January 1938)
Louisa was born in Chelsea, the daughter of George and Mary Elizabeth. She was baptised at Holy Trinity Church, Ely on 21 June 1857. In 1871 she was living with her paternal uncle and aunt in Ely, and aged 25 was working at 5 St. Peter’s Terrace, Cambridge as a housemaid for the Guillemard family. Rev. William Guillemard was the vicar of St. Mary the Less Church, which is where Louisa married Carter Samworth (1857-1914) on 22 November 1882. Carter was a railway porter and they had two daughters: Dora and Lilian Jane (1886-1955).
The family lived at 75 Kingston Street (1891), 18 Gothic Street (1901) and Warren Yard (at least 1911 onwards). From at least 1897 – 1901 Carter lived in Chatteris, with his mother Anne. In 1897 he was charged with assaulting his mother and appeared in front of local magistrates. By 1911 Carter was a ‘inmate’ at the North Witchford Union Workhouse, Doddington, near March and was recorded as being a labourer. He died there in the summer of 1914 aged 55 years old.
Louisa died at 2 Warren’s Yard and was buried at Mill Road Cemetery on 17 January 1938.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
Parish Burial records transcribed by CFHS
by Claire Martinsen
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