CFHS code : AG111b
Parish : St Andrew the Great
Inscription : KEZIAH the loving wife of DAVID T WRIGHT who after a painful illness died Christmas Eve 1901 aged 58
Monument : Stone cross (broken)
Above information amended from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Lat Lon : 52.202736, 0.13674812 – click here for location
Monument
Six monuments south of the east west path in the centre of the parish plot. Although we can only see an inscription for Keziah we know, from the grave register, that her husband was also buried here. The inscription is very difficult to read.
Inscription
KEZIAH the loving wife of DAVID T WRIGHT
Who after a painful illness died Christmas Eve 1901 aged 58
Keziah Wright (nee Haynes) (1843 – 24 December 1901)
Keziah was the daughter of Samuel and Sarah Haynes. She was born in March, but grew up at Coronation Street, Cambridge where her father worked as a cordwainer/bootmaker and her mother as a shoe binder. She married David Turtle Wright in 1861 when she was 17. After getting married David and Keziah were recorded as living with her parents in Gold Street. They had three children: Sarah T (1866-), William Crispin Turtle (1868- 1935) and Lucy Annie (1873-1956).
The family lived at Prospect Row (1881), 35 Paradise Street (1891) and then 9 Victoria Street (1901). She died aged 58 years.
David Turtle Wright (1842 – May 1914)
David was born in Cambridge. He appears to have had lots of careers over his life. He was a coachmaker (1861), then a painter, glazier and paper hanger (1881), a house decorator (1891), a verger and sexton for St Andrew the Great (1901) and finally a college waiter (1911).
After his wife’s death in 1901 he remarried to Eliza in 1903. He died in May 1914 and was buried on May 26th.
Source:
Ancestry
By Claire Martinsen