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2017 RGL12 Hills Road, (1) Cintra Terrace (7)
History of 12 Hills Road
Pevsner notes (Cambridgeshire p. 327): the retained facade of Cintra House, originally added c 1860-5 to an early C19 four-storey terrace. The design is reportedly by John Edlin, in a very coarse eclectic style, with a row of roundels and heads sticking out of them.
1861
(7)
Digby March, 67, Captain Royal Navy, b Ireland
Maria Adelaide, 31, b Ireland
Horatio, 25, b Cornwall,
Rosamund, 22, b Suffolk
Susannah M Fox, visitor, 62, b Ireland
Elizabeth Easton, 23, servant, housemaid, b Cambridge
Lucy Cornwall, 33, servant, parlourmaid, b Bottisham Lode
Sarah Deller, 33, servant, cook, b Cambs
1871
(7 Hills Road)
Walter William Skeat, 35, lecturer at Christ’s College, b Middlesex
Bertha Clara, 31, b London
Bertha Marian, 9, b Norfolk
Clara Lilian, 7, b Surrey
Ethel Gertrude, 5, b Cambridge
Walter William, 4, b Cambridge
Margaret Frances, 2, b Cambridge
Mary Ann Percival, visitor, 68, nurse, b essex
Sarah Tyrrel, cook, 35, b Essex
Ruth Baker, 21, housemaid, b Foulmere
Sarah A Dickerson, 28, nurse, b Toft
The Skeat family had moved to 27 Station Road by 1881
1881
(1 Cintra Terrace)
Ann M Carr, widow, 57, income from money invested in railways, b London
Walter C, 25, undergraduate of Cambridge, b Kent
Eliza Wood, nurse, 65, b Essex
Elizabeth Maddicks, 31, cook, b Gloucs
Annie Pinnock, 21, housemaid, b London
Albert Russell, footman, 20, b Kent
Florence E Carr, niece, 19, b Bucks
1891
Hannah Green, servant, 33, cook, born Horningsea
Jessie Stonebridge, 20, housemaid, born Cambridge
1901
(12 Hills Road)
Jane Allen, 47, b Ireland
Kate Reed, servant, 30, living on own means, b Isleham
Agnes Peppercorn, 26, servant, b Cambs
1913:
Miss Jane Allen
1914 Edward Conybeare records in his diary of event sin Cambridge during WWI:
9th November – F [Mrs Conybeare] got wounded Belgians for whom Cintra Terrace is convalescent hospital into garden where they played swans like children …
Cintra Terrace was used as a VAD auxiliary Red Cross hospital in WWI
1939
(12-14 Flat)
Lewis G Davies, b 1865, semi retired medical examiner, (member medical board military training)
Martha E Davies, b 1873
Gwynedd G Davies, b 1911
(12-14 Flat)
Eva A Fazackerley, b 1876
Mary W, b 1910, school mistress, ARP Air Warden Trumpington
George S Payne, b 1885, manager motor garage
Lottie Payne, b 1879
(12-14 Flat)
Horace W H Kennard, b 1917, medical student
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(12-14 Flat)
Mally G Blair, b 1856m retired teacher
Annie P Iliffe, b 1870, retired teacher
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(12-14 Flat)
Percy J Pond, b 1916, car van and lorry driver
Bessie A M Pond, b 1917, general help and caretaker to flats
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Cintra House, Hills Road 1972 (MoC 53/72)
Cintra House, 114-116 Hills Road, 1975 (MoC331/75)
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