In Down Your Street, 1984, Sara Payne notes that 63a was built into the actual smithy of the blacksmith’s next door at no.63. The lintel of the forge entrance can be seen in the brickwork from no.61.
63a is not on the 1881 Census.
Head of household is James Dealtry, a 71 year old widower, Bootmaker, b. Cambridge
James William Dealtry, 38, Bootmaker, b. Camberwell, London
George A Watson, 60, tailor, b. Cambridge
Albert Edwards, head, 40, married, general labourer, Portland Cement Co., b. Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire
Clara Edwards, wife, 41, married, b. Old Chesterton, Cambridgeshire
Walter Newman, adopted, 9, school, b. Cambridge
Married 13 years, 0 children
Sources – 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911 UK Census
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