16 Stone Street, Cambridge

An Engine Driver's Family and a Stone Mason from Ely

Number 16 is a terraced house on the north side of Stone Street.

1881

William Sharpe, 24, dairyman employing one boy, b. Norfolk

Jessie Sharpe, 36, b. Brinksley, Cambridgeshire

Frederick Sharpe, 1, b. Cambridge

1891

This family has moved from number 2 Stone Street.

David Salisbury is now 41 and no longer an engine fireman, he’s now an engine driver. The eldest six children are still living with their parents. Elizabeth (20), Jane (19), Mary (17) and Mercy (16) are all domestic servants.  Ada is now 12 and David is 11.

Eliza and David have had three new children, Walter (7), William Herbert (3) and John, just 6 months old.

Elizabeth marries boilerman Edwin Blackwell in 1892.  They live at 12 Ainsworth Street.

Jane marries insurance agent William Henry Yorke in 1893.

Mercy marries despatch clerk William George Johnston in 1900.

Ada becomes a domestic cook and can be found in London on the 1901 Census and back in Cambridge in 1911 as cook to Frederick Deighton’s household.  She married William Burling in 1915.

David has joined the Army Service Corps and is in Longford, Ireland at the time of the 1901 Census. He marries Alice Matilda Clark in 1907 and they settle at The Rose & Crown on Pound Hill.  David is landlord and licensed cab driver.  He died in 1954.

It’s possible that Mary Ann is on the 1891 Census twice.  There is another entry for a Mary Ann Salisbury, same age and also born in Chesterton, working as a Domestic Servant to a family living on Emmanuel Road.

The rest of the family has moved to 17 Stone Street by 1901.

1901

Francis W Chapman, a 59-year-old stone mason from Ely and his wife Jane, 53, are living alone at number 16.  They have moved here from number 15a.

Jane died aged 58 and is buried in Mill Road Cemetery with her first husband Benjamin Fordham and children Edward (otherwise known as Edding) and Elizabeth.

1911

Harry Edward Miller, 34, fruiterer and florist on own account, b. Cambridge

Lilian Florence Miller, 33, b. Huntingdon

Montague Kitchner Miller, 12, b. Cambridge

May Enid Miller, 9, b. Cambridge

Sources: 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911 UK Census, Mill Road Cemetery, FindAGrave.com, Cambridgeshire, England, Electoral Registers, Burgess Rolls and Poll Books (1722-1966), Britain, Campaign, Gallantry & Long Service Medals & Awards,