Biography:
Caroline Littlejohns
16/04/1862 –04/03/1936
Caroline Littlejohns

Plot 979 Caroline Littlejohns (née Saltmarsh) (1862-1936)
Caroline Saltmarsh was born 6 April 1862 she was one of seven children born to Alfred Saltmarsh, a shoemaker, and his wife Also Caroline. Of the seven children born to the couple only Caroline, her sister Eliza and brother Frank survived childhood, the other four all dying young.
Caroline’s parents were both from Chelmsford, but married in Kensington, London, in 1852. The family however had moved to Berkhamsted by 1862 where Caroline was born. The family appear in the 1871 census; Alfred and Caroline, together with Sidney (who was to die later that year), Caroline, Eliza and Frank were living in Victoria Road, Berkhamsted.
Ten years later in 1881, 18 years old Caroline was one of three domestic servants living at Berkhamsted’s Rectory where she worked for the family of the Rector of St Peter’s, John Wolstenholme Cobb. Caroline had left the employment of the rector by 1891 and was working in Pembroke Gardens, Kensington as a parlourmaid for banker Arthur Franklin and his family.
Caroline married John Aitkin Littlejohns, who had just retired from the Navy, in Berkhamsted in 1892.
The couple were not to have any children.
In the 1901 to 1921 censuses John was the resident caretaker in Tottenham Court House and Polytechnic.
They retired to “St Kitts”, West Road, Berkhamsted where Catherine died 3 March 1936 aged 73.
John survived her until 1950 and they are buried here together.
Caroline’s parents and her brother Frank are buried here

in the cemetery
Plot 979 Caroline Littlejohns (née Saltmarsh) (1862-1936)
Caroline Saltmarsh was born 6 April 1862 she was one of seven children born to Alfred Saltmarsh, a shoemaker, and his wife Also Caroline. Of the seven children born to the couple only Caroline, her sister Eliza and brother Frank survived childhood, the other four all dying young.
Caroline’s parents were both from Chelmsford, but married in Kensington, London, in 1852. The family however had moved to Berkhamsted by 1862 where Caroline was born. The family appear in the 1871 census; Alfred and Caroline, together with Sidney (who was to die later that year), Caroline, Eliza and Frank were living in Victoria Road, Berkhamsted.
Ten years later in 1881, 18 years old Caroline was one of three domestic servants living at Berkhamsted’s Rectory where she worked for the family of the Rector of St Peter’s, John Wolstenholme Cobb. Caroline had left the employment of the rector by 1891 and was working in Pembroke Gardens, Kensington as a parlourmaid for banker Arthur Franklin and his family.
Caroline married John Aitkin Littlejohns, who had just retired from the Navy, in Berkhamsted in 1892.
The couple were not to have any children.
In the 1901 to 1921 censuses John was the resident caretaker in Tottenham Court House and Polytechnic.
They retired to “St Kitts”, West Road, Berkhamsted where Catherine died 3 March 1936 aged 73.
John survived her until 1950 and they are buried here together.
Caroline’s parents and her brother Frank are buried here