17 Stone Street

General Labourer and an Engine Driver

Number 17 is a terraced house on the north side of Stone Street.

1881

Charles Tuck, 41, engine driver, b. Harston

Sophia Tuck, 40, b. Cambridge

Julia Tuck, 19, dressmaker, b. Cambridge

Louisa Tuck, 17, domestic servant, b. Cambridge

George C Tuck, 15, errand boy, b. Cambridge

Elizabeth S Tuck, 13, scholar, b. Cambridge

Florence R Tuck, 11, scholar, b. Cambridge

Clara E Tuck, 8, scholar, b. Cambridge

Frederick J Tuck, 6, b. Cambridge

1891

William Gillison, 43, General Labourer, b. Little Swaffham, Cambridgeshire

Mary Gillison, 52, b. Great Eversden, Cambridgeshire

Mary died on 9th December 1893, she was 53.

1901

This family has previously lived at number 2 Stone Street in 1881 and number 16 Stone Street in 1891.

David Salisbury is now 52 and still a railway engine driver.  Four of Eliza and David’s older children are still at home with their parent’s. Mary Ann is 24 and a tailoress, Walter is 17 and a railway engine cleaner, William is a tailor’s errand boy and John is 10 and at school.

There is one new child, three-year-old Connie. There is no record of her birth and she is not on the 1911 Census where her mother records 12 children born, three of whom have died. It is likely that Connie is one of the deaths.

On the 27th June 1903 David has a serious accident at work. “David Salisbury… engine driver, got down from his train, and was crossing the lines to get to the signal box near the Mill Road bridge, when he was knocked down by a passing train. Although the train was not coming at a great speed, Salisbury’s right arm was cut off above the elbow and he also sustained several severe cuts about the head… At the hospital he was operated upon, and is now making surprisingly rapid progress.” Cambridge Independent Press: 3 July 1903

Walter married Ellen Louisa Law in 1905. By the time of the 1911 Census they are living at 9 Stone Street.

David was admitted to the Asylum on the 26th January 1910.  He died there on the 16th May 1919.  He is buried in Milton Cemetery.

Eliza moves to Fen Ditton with Mary, Herbert (otherwise William Herbert) and John.

1911

Edward Morley, 40, widower, plumber, b. St Matthew’s Parish

Elizabeth Morley, 18, b. St Matthew’s Parish

May Morley, 17, Factory Hand, Fruit Preserver, b. St Matthew’s Parish

Joy Morley, 10, b. St Matthew’s Parish

Lily Morley, 8, b. St Matthew’s Parish

Edward Morley, 6, b. St Matthew’s Parish

Maud Morley, 3, b. St Matthew’s Parish

Source:  1881, 1891, 1901, 1911, UK Census, Cambridge Chronicle and Journal 15 December 1893, Cambridgeshire Burials, Lunacy Patients Admission Registers (1846-1912),