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27 (14) Owlstone Road, Newnham

History of 27 Owlstone Road

For explanation of the numbering issues in this road see Owlstone Road

1911 (14)

Charles William Lingwood

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1913 (14)

Emil Saraoja

SC sent these notes in 2023: I am dong some research into a Finnish family who were living in Owlstone Road in 1912. The wife, Edith Irene Saraoja, died in that year aged 37, and is buried in Histon Road Cemetery, with a very handsome Finnish art nouveau style headstone. Her husband Emil, an engineering teacher from Helsinki, wrote a letter to the Helsinki newspaper the next year with a printed letterheading giving the address as 14 Owlstone Road — the address at which Edith’s death is registered in the Histon Road Cemetery archive.

The letter is a covering note for an article about the British suffragette movement which he was submitting to the the Helsingin Sanomat, the main Finnish newspaper. He was the leader of the Helsinki congregation of the Free Church of Finland, but he admitted that he was surprised to find himself sympathetic to the suffragist cause.

The inscription on the memorial is:

NUKKUOS RAUHASSA

ALLA VIERAHAN TURPEEN

KUNNEKKA JOUDUMME

KAUTTA AIKOJEN MURHEEN

YHTEHEN TAAS TAIVAHAN MAASS

SLEEP IN PEACE UNDER THE FOREIGN TURF UNTIL WE HAVE TO FACE THE SORROW OF THE AGES TOGETHER AGAIN IN THE LAND OF HEAVEN

SC will be writing an article about Edith for the Histon Road Cemetery Newsletter. He notes:

Edith Irene Saraoja, born Liljeström on 25 September 1874 in Kytö, Tammela, Finland. The announcement of her death in the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper on 16 May 1912 gave her age at her death as 37 years, 7 months and 6 days [thanks to Sofia Singler], which makes the day 2 May. Married to Gustaf Emil Saraoja (Saxbäck) (1870–1954) in 1897. He was an engineer, teaching at the Helsinki Polytechnic and later the Technical School, becoming professor in 1935. He was leader of the Helsinki congregation of the Free Church of Finland. [geni.com] The following year Emil sent an article on the British suffragette movement (in favour, to his initial surprise) to Helsingin Sanomat with a covering letter which has survived. 

ML added this note in 2025:

Edith´s husband Emil Saraoja studied mechanics and steam engineering in Cambridge 1911-12. His wife died there; I don´t know why. They had two children, a girl and a boy. Vasti, their daughter, was 10 years when her mother died. As a grown-up, she spoke very good English. She lived many years in Lappland as her husband was a vicar of Muonio. There she got to know Lady Constance Malleson, who loved Lappland. They became friends and Vasti invited her to come to Vehmersalmi, near a town Kuopio, where Vasti moved as her husband became a vicar of Vehmersalmi.  Thanks to Vasti (1902 – 1947), lady Constance Malleson (1895 – 1970), an actress, journalist, writer, Bertrand Russell´s lifelong love and friend, lived in Vehmersalmi 19 40 – 1941. Russell´s letters came to this little Vehmersalmi village. I have spent all my summers in Vehmersalmi, as our family has a summer house there. I have written a book Lady Constance Malleson´s  Story, which will be published in Finnish soon.   https://www.suomalainen.com/products/lady-constance-malleson

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1962

Lawrence J Gooby

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1970

Herbert Gossop