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  Soham Memorial Inscriptions

This Record of the Monumental Inscriptions at the Fordham Road Cemetery, Soham, Cambridgeshire, was made by Tim & Julie Webb of Soham between 2004 and 2010 as time permitted. It was prepared originally in text form on paper, but this being to costly to produce, it was decided to copy the records on to a DVD. This electronic version comprises the full text of the transcript, with the addition of photographs of the graves taken during the transcription, as well as purchase and burial details taken from the original purchase and burial registers held at the Soham Town Council offices at the Walter Gidney Pavilion, Fountain Lane, Soham. Not all of the cemetery was transcribed, we decided to stop transcribing at section P, as the remainder of the cemetery is for much later burials, and it was thought this would be inappropriate, perhaps in the years to come someone will continue were we have left off.

The Plan of the cemetery which accompanies this record is from the original held at the Soham Town Council offices, making the numbering of unreadable monuments quite accurate, as well as recording who is actually buried there.

The Numbering System used to identify the graves, splits the part of the cemetery that has been recorded into 14 sections, designated by the initial letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P. This letter is followed by a number indicating the individual grave within the section. The grave numbers used in these records are the original numbers that were given to the plots and cross reference with the Purchase and Burial registers that were consulted.

The Convention Used when we recorded the inscriptions in paper form, was the standard method, There is no attempt to follow the capitalisation, or typeface of the original inscription. All punctuation visible on the stone is transcribed as accurately as possible, within the limitations of the computer typeface. Where part of a stone is not decipherable square brackets are used to indicate missing letters or words, or whole lines, thus [___] or other possible alternatives as indicated. In the original paper transcripts the "/ " symbol was used to indicate line ends, in order to save space. In this DVD version, space is not at a premium and the lines are placed as found on the stone. However no attempt has been made to fit the modern type to the correct line lengths and all the lines are centred. The true layout can usually be judged from the photograph.

Stone Vases and other Smaller Monuments bearing no inscriptions have been included in the records, we have recorded these and given them the appropriate grave number for the location they were found at, including who is buried there at that location and other additional information, but it should be noted that these types of monuments may have been moved over the years from elsewhere in the cemetery and may not be in their original location.

Additional Information about the grave, is shown in italics. Normally this consists of a brief description of the grave, preceding the inscription. In all cases further information has been added, in italics following the inscription or were there is no inscription noted. This information has been taken from the original Purchase and Burial registers, and is indicated thus: [PR] = Purchase Register and [BR] = Burial Register.  SEE DEMO PAGE HERE .

 

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Soham Ancestor Cd's

Soham Ancestors Volume 1.
Introduction.

This Cd has been compiled to assist you in your search for your Ancestors in the Parish of Soham Cambridgeshire, which includes the Hamlet of Barway. Every effort has been made to give the correct information as seen in the original sources, however as with all transcriptions and indexes there is a possibility of there being errors, it is therefore recommended that the original sources are consulted, which can be found in the Cambridge Record Office as regards to the Marriage Database and the 1891 Census.

The Chapel Book was kept in the Anglican Chapel in the Fordham Road Cemetery in Soham, we came across it in the local Council Offices and is in poor condition. The book contains information on the Burials in the Cemetery when it first opened in 1856 and ends in 1881, with the exception of 1877 which is missing, the book would have been filled in by the Officiating Minister at the time of the Burial, and gives the Name, Age, Abode, Burial Date, Grave No, & Officiating Minister of the Deceased. Quite a little gem of information.

1891 Census For Soham Cambridgeshire including the Hamlet of Barway. The Census is fully searchable using the Abode Viewers Search Facility,

Marriages for St Andrews Church Soham 1559 – 1875, this database is fully searchable, and all spellings of names are entered as seen in the original Register for example, Fyson, Fison, take this into account when searching for your name.

Quakers of Cambridgeshire and The Isle of Ely, This is a very interesting book that we have extracted the Cambridgeshire part from, the full title of the book is, A Collection of the Sufferings of the People called Quakers, and was published in 1753, but gives accounts as far back as 1653, has many names from this area and details of what became of them including their punishments because of their Faith, is an absolutely fascinating read.

Cures for Beasts, This is a little handwritten book of 1817 in our possession, it once belonged to a Local Live Stock Farmer, it is unique and is a book of recipes of old fashioned Cures for all manner of disorders in Cattle, Sheep and Horses, you can read how they cured these things with local ingredients, some sound pretty hair raising . To view this Cd you require Adobe Reader 6 or above.

Soham Ancestors Volume II

Soham Parochial Magazines
By Soham Roots.

 Introduction

This disc is a compilation of Scanned Images in pdf format of the Soham Parochial Magazines in our Collection, they range from late Victorian to early Edwardian, and are an absolute minefield of information on Soham, including Barway. If you ever wondered what was happening or what Soham was like in past times these give you a magnificent insight into this, you can find your Ancestors were perhaps obtaining awards at School or maybe Great Granny was organising a rummage sale, it is all recorded in the pages of these Magazines along with Baptisms, Marriages & Burials for St Andrews Church. Some of the topics they include are : Raising Funds for the Church Hall, Rummage Sale Accounts and Dates, Sunday School Awards, Soham Grammar School Prize Lists, Church Missionary Society, Jews Society, Zenana Missions, Missions to Seamen, Soham Fen School, Soham National Girls School, Soham Boys School, The Dorcas Society, Parish Council Meetings, Soham Clothing Guild, Parish Officers,  Soham Charities, Soham Feasts, Churchwarden Accounts,  Sohams Ancient History, School Treats, Barway Church, and much much more, there are over 550 pages of search material  all containing Local People and events.

 The years covered are :
1883, all Months apart from January & March, that are missing.

The Following Years are Complete,
1884, 1886, 1895, 1896, 1899, 1900, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906.

Also included are,
November 1914
June 1915
December 1918
February & April 1919.

Please be aware that some databases are quite large depending on the Surname occurrences in the Registers, all Surname databases includes Birth, Deaths & Marriages in St Andrews Church Soham from 1558 - 1875, which also includes any occurrences of the Surname, i.e. Witnesses, Fathers etc, they also include all Burials in Fordham Road Cemetery Soham from 1856 - 2001, this includes Grave No, Age, Burial Date, and any additional information, such as if they were Non - Conformist Burials. The Databases include all spelling variants of the Surname.

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