The Baedeker Raid on York

55 Chatsworth Terrace



Click for details of Chatsworth Terrace.

Lilian Cammidge......aged 51.

Mary Jane Farrow......aged 66.



Lilian Cammidge is buried in York Cemetery with four other air raid victims in a double plot close to the boundary wall.



The location of York Cemetery





Mary Jane Farrow (nee Corney) was born in the small village of East Cottingwith (SE of York) in 1876 and in the 1901 census she was married and living in York.
By 1911 she had moved from York to live in Peterborough.

The house where she was killed in Chatsworth Terrace was occupied by her niece Lilian Cammidge. 

Richard Farrow, Mary's husband, died in 1934 and was buried in the Rippingale cemetery on the 12th September 1934 (aged 60).
Mary Jane Farrow was buried with her husband in the same cemetery on the 6th May 1942.

This information is courtesy of St Andrew's Church, Rippingale.



The location of the cemetery in Rippingale is shown by the red frame.









The location of Rippingale.

She is remembered on the Peterborough War Memorial website which erroneously states she was buried in York.



The author would like to thank Jonathan & Christine Newell for their kind assistance in locating the grave.
(They are shown above examining the church records)