6 Primrose Street, Cambridge

History of 6 Primrose Street

1881

James Dalton, 50, boot closer, b Cambridge

Eliza, 48, b Bottisham

Emily, 23, day school mistress, b Cambridge

Ada, 18, general servant, b Cambridge

Cathleen [Kathleen], 16, day school teacher, b Cambridge

Frank Alfred, 14, day school monitor, b Cambridge

Mary L, 10, b Cambridge

Ethel L, 4, b Cambridge

In 1871 the Daltons were in Sturton Street, in 1861 at 52 Bradmore Street.

“Our Family in Cambridge” by John Osborne states that the school the family attended at would have been St Luke’s, opened in 1874. One anecdote is that Frank Alfred was taken too near the river once by his elder sisters who dropped him in. Frank married Maud in 1890 and in 1891 they were living in Hertford Street.

In 1891 Kathleen Harriet is working as a governess in Riddlesworth Norfolk. According to family sources evidence in the national census, she had an illegitimate baby in the same year, Enid Hope. Enid only survived 14 months but can be found at 89 Searle Street in 1891.

1891

James Dalton, 60, boot closer, b Cambridge

Eliza, 58, b Bottisham

Ethel L, milliner’s apprentice, b Chesterton

James died in 1894 and he left Eliza £97 12s. In 1901 Eliza is living in the house of her daughter Ethel in Oxford.

1913

Oliver Gawthrop