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8-9 Petty Cury circa 1960 (MoC204B/70)8 – 9 Petty Cury
History of 8 Petty Cury
1851
George Williams, 28, grocer, b Cambridge
Elizabeth, 27, b East Dereham Norfolk
John, 11, b East Dereham Norfolk
Jane, 8, b East Dereham Norfolk
John Williams, father in law, Baptist Minister East Dereham, b Cambridge
Elizabeth, mother, in law, 47, b Norfolk
Charles Rowton, assistant, 20, b Cambridge
John Barker, assistant, 18, b Essex
Elizabeth Ellen, servant, 18, b Barton
1861
(9)
George Williams, 39, grocer employing 1 assistant and 1 apprentice, b Cambridge
Elizabeth, 37, b Norfolk
Elizabeth, 9, b Cambridge
George C, 6, b Cambridge
Harriet, sister, 36, milliner, born Cambridge
David Waiter, lodger, blacksmith, b Norfolk
Elizabeth Waiter, wife, b London
Octavius Blinkhorn, assistant, 17, grocer’s assistant, b Cambs
Susannah Ryder, servant, 18, b Sawston
(8) see 7 Petty Cury
1871 (8)
Charles Constable, hatter
Amelia Kent, sister, 30, b Cambridge: See 1861 entry. Amelia had remarried in 1870 to James Kent. By 1881 Amelia and James had moved to Ecclesall Bierlow in Yorkshire where James ran a brewery. See Mill Road Cemetery entry.
Sarah H Scott, visitor, 13, b Sheffield
Sarah Bullum, servant, 40, b Ditton
Petty Cury c.1867 (MoCP71)
Petty Cury, c 1867
1881 (8) Hatters Shop [for 9 Petty Cury see Falcon Inn]
John F Constable, widower, 75, hatter, b Cambridge
Charles, 52, hatter and clothier, b Cambridge
Sarah Busling, 40, servant, b Ditton
1891
George J Dring, 24, pork butcher, b Grantchester
Eliza E, 21, pork butcher, b Cambridge
Kate S, sister, 25, housekeeper, b Cambridge
Mary L, sister, 22, housekeeper, b Cambridge
1900
George Wootten (over Pryor’s)
1900: conveyancing note re Henry Brown Pike and Eel
1901 uninhabited
1913
James Valentine Pryor, fishmonger and ice merchant
Macfisheries 8 – 9 Petty Cury c1960 (MoC192/72)
1962
(8) Developed Products Ltd, industrial products
(8/9) C J Stephens
(8 & 9) MacFisheries Ltd, fishmongers
(8 & 9) Mallinson’s School of Photography & Journalism
In 2022 AN sent this note:
When I was about 10, [in the 50s ] my mother would take me into Cambridge, from Trumpington where we lived, and I was fascinated by the shops there, Eaden Lilley, and the lovely stalls on the market, and the beautiful Petty Cury [ totally ruined !! ] where she would go into Mc fisheries with its live fis , eels etc swimming around which I was fascinated with, in the big tank set in the floor under the big counter. Also , later on in life , I used to take game to a shop by the Guildhall called Sennits, the game dealer, where in a dingy basement sat a wizened old man who used to pluck them all day long and on being instructed to take pheasants down to him, was usually with profanities , saying, What do you think I’m going to do with those !!!!!! things this time of day !! I think it may have ended up as a model shop ?
In 2024 AM wrote (circa1950): My Grandmother used to work for Boots the Chemist. I remember shopping with her at Mac Fisheries it must have been reasonably close to Lensfield road as she used to send me to get cast off pieces for the cats dinner. There was a hole in the floor where the live fish were kept and I was always afraid I would fall in !
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