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A dark wood Pembroke table with turned legs on casters supports a vintage Oliver typewriter and two descriptive information cards.

H Turner, Pembroke table circa 1836, 53 Bridge Street

14 Christchurch Street (Church Street), Cambridge

History of 14 Christchurch Street

1861 (14 Church Street)

Henry Turner, 58, cabinet maker, b Cambridge

Sarah, 21, milliner, b Cambridge

Emmeline, 19, b Cambridge

Alice Suram, grand daughter, 7, b Kent


1871

Frederick and Harriet Ingrey (nee Levett) living at 14 Church Street, just after marriage in 1870.


1881

Harriet Ingrey now widowed (Frederick died in 1880) with Florence Levett Ingrey and Ernest Frederick Ingrey children.


1884 Cambs Electoral Register shows Joseph Levett (Harriet’s father) shown as resident there (along with 49 City Road, Cambridge).


1885 Joseph Levett death certificate shows death occurred at 14 Church Street


1891 (February) Mary Ann Levett, mother of Harriet, death certificate shows death occurred at 14 Church Street.


1891 Census (June) Harriet Ingrey still at 14 Church Street


1901 Census, Florence Levett Ingrey at 14 Church Street (mother Harriet died in 1900), with Rootham Samuel and Elizabeth Blinkhorn (nee Levett, Harriet’s sister).


1911 Census, Florence Levett Ingrey at 14 Church Street with brother Ernest Frederick Ingrey.


1912 death of Florence Levett Ingrey at 14 Church Street


1913 (late Church Street)

Ernest Frederick Ingrey

Rootham Samuel Blinkhorn, clerk


1920 Cambs Electoral Register shows Ernest Frederick Ingrey with wife Helen at 14 Christchurch Street.

1921 Census, Ernest Frederick Ingrey with wife Helen at 14 Christchurch Street, plus son Ernest John Ingrey. Working as Wine and Spirit Merchant which was based at 13 Downing Street, Cambridge 

1926  Cambs Electoral Register shows Ernest and wife Helen at 13 Downing Street.


In 2022 ML sent this note about Rootham Blinkhorn:

I have been researching the Levett family history on Ancestry for a number of years and have found out quite a lot about Rootham, who seemed to have been lodging in a number of houses before marrying Elizabeth late in life in 1882, eventually living at 14 Church Street Cambridge (but seems to have lodged there with Elizabeth when the property was owned by his niece Florence Levett Ingrey). A relative of mine remembered  in the 1980s that Rootham had an ear trumpet and I think both he and Elizabeth attended Eden Baptist Church in Cambridge. 

 

Sources

  • 1861 census
  • 1871 census
  • 1881 census
  • 1891 census
  • 1901 census
  • 1911 census
  • 1921 census
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