CFHS code : AL69
Parish : St Andrew the Less
Inscription : In Loving Remembrance of BENJAMIN WORBOYS who entered into rest Aug 4th 1884 also ANN widow of the above d Sept 25th 1905 in her 89th year At rest also ANNIE eldest daughter of the above who found rest Sept 5th 1907 in her 62nd year also EMMA daughter of the above d Feb 27th 1858 aged 10 and THOMAS the youngest son d April 5th 1859 aged 3 and of ROBERT who passed away July 5th 1919 aged 66 interred in Earlsheaton Cemetery Dewsbury
Monument : Headstone/Kerb stones (double)
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.203952, 0.13819439 – click here for location
Monument
Located in the north east of the parish.
Inscription
In Loving Remembrance of BENJAMIN WORBOYS who entered into rest Aug 4th 1884 in his 64th year
Also ANN widow of the above died Sept 25th 1905 in her 89th year
“At rest”
Also ANNIE eldest daughter of the above who found rest Sept. 5th. 1907. in her 62nd year
Also EMMA daughter of the above died Feb. 27th. 1858. Aged 10 years
And THOMAS the youngest son died April 5th 1859 aged 3 years
And of ROBERT who passed away July 5th 1919 aged 66 interred in Earlsheaton Cemetery Dewsbury
Benjamin Worboys (c 1820 – 4 August 1884)
Benjamin was born in Steeple Morden, and was the son of James and Sarah Worboys. His father was a brewer and cooper. When Benjamin was 20 years old he was living in Littington with his parents and five siblings. Littington is a village four miles outside of Royston, and fourteen miles south east of Cambridge. He married Ann Gray at Littington on 26 February 1842. Benjamin followed in his fathers career and became a brewer, living in Bedford and then Cock Street, Gamlingay (1851) – finally settling in Cambridge. His brewery at Newmarket Road was known as the Globe Brewery. He created a Cambridge brewery dynasty with many of his children and grandchildren involved in brewing for many years.
Benjamin and Ann had at least nine children: William (1844-1904), Annie (1846-1907), Emma (1847-1858), James (1849-), Benjamin (1850-1914), Robert (1853-1919), Thomas (1855-1919), Thomas (1855-1859), Jane Augusta (1858-1927) and Miriam Emma (1860-1935). Benjamin ran the Globe Brewery at 5 Newmarket Road, and died there in 1884. The newspaper report of his death stated ‘his end was peace’.
Ann Worboys (née Gray) (c 1817 – 25 September 1905)
Ann was born in Littington. She married Benjamin Worboys aged c.26 years old and was widowed at the age of 67 years old.
She continued to run the brewery at Newmarket Road with the help of her children (1891/1901). She died aged 88 years old by which time she was living at 10 Newmarket Road.
Annie Worboys (c1846 – 5 September 1907)
Annie was the eldest daughter of Ann and Benjamin Worboys. She was born in Bedford, but grew up in Cambridge. She lived at home with her parents throughout her life and did not marry. She died at home at Englewood House, Newmarket Road aged 61 years old.
Emma Worboys (1847 – 27 February 1858)
Emma was born in Bedford and was baptised at St John’s Church in Bedford on 4 March 1849. She died at 21 Grafton Street, Cambridge aged 10 years old.
Thomas Worboys (1855 – 5 April 1859)
Thomas was born in Cambridge and died at 10 Grafton Street, Cambridge.
Robert Worboys (1853 – 5 July 1919)
Robert was the son of Benjamin and Ann Worboys. He was born in Cambridge and aged 18 (1871) was working as a brewer and cooper in the family business at 5 Newmarket Road. In April 1881 however he was living in Market Bosworth in Leicestershire and was a partner in a drapery business. He married Isabella Brookland (1853-1945) later the same month at St Ebbes Church in Oxford. The couple had one daughter Annie (1886-1955).
Robert and Isabella moved to Cambridge and in 1891/1901 were running the Coopers Arms public house at 46 City Road. The Coopers Arms was then taken over by his nephew Sidney James Worboys, and Robert and Isabella moved to 18 Montague Road. In 1911 Robert was working as a ‘brewers traveller’. He died in 1919 at his home at Fern Bank, Station Road in Earlsheaton, near Dewsbury. He was buried in Earlsheaton, but remembered on the family grave in Mill Road Cemetery.
Sources:
Ancestry
Newspaper archives
by Claire Martinsen
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