16 (38) Norfolk Terrace

History of 16 Norfolk Terrace

1881

Frederick Franklin, 52, gardener, b Wilbraham

Jane, 48, b London

Harry, 15, upholsterers labourer, b Cambridge

Emily, 13, scholar, b Cambridge

Alice, 8, scholar, b Cambridge

Jessie, 2, b Cambridge

Julia Lilley, 22, daughter, b Cambridge

Charles Lilley, 21, son-in-law, engine cleaner, b Chesterford

1891

John Fordham, 26, brewers labourer, b Cambridge

Emily, 21, b Granchester

1901

Eliza Saggers, 62, widow, bedmaker at Emmanuel College, b Cambridge

James, 24, No 3 flower seller (hawker), b Cambridge

Elizabeth, 27, housework, b Chesterton

1911

George Tilley, 36, brewers drayman, b Suffolk

Ruth, 34, b Suffolk

Clarence, 7, school, b Suffolk

Edgar, 6, school, b Suffolk

Laurence, 2, b Suffolk

George Newstead, 28, boarder, brewers labourer, b Newmarket

Maud Newstead, 24, boarder, b Suffolk

1939

George Tilley, b 1874, builders labourer

Ruth, b 1876, housewife

Nellie Liassides, b 1931, at school

1 closed record

In 2025 KT sent this note:

In the mid-1960s when I was a student, I used to visit Mrs Ruth Tilley at 16 Norfolk Terrace. She was then in her late 80s and I was fascinated to hear that she had had to wait to marry her fiancé George till he came back from the War – the Boer War. They did marry, in 1902.

George and Ruth Tilley moved from Suffolk into 16 Norfolk Terrace together with their three children Clarence, Edgar and Laurence in about 1910. They were to live there until they died, George in 1947 and Ruth in 1967. I once met their eldest son Clarence, who served for many years as laboratory assistant to Professor Ernest Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. Rutherford was the pioneering and Nobel prizewinning researcher in atomic and nuclear physics… he had a damaged hand through handling radioactive materials.