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History of 201 Newmarket Road

1861 (190)

Henry Donnex, 38, cattle dealer, b Cambridge

Catherine, 40, b Linton

Elizabeth, 17, b Cambridge

Alfred, 13, b Cambridge

Henry, 10, b Cambridge

Frederick, 8 b Cambridge

Ellen, 6, b Cambridge

Hannah, 3, b Cambridge

Charlotte, 1, b Cambridge

The following website contains detailed information about the Donnex family of which the following is an extract:

http://adamantane.madasafish.com/GibsonCatharine.html

In 1851, as C. Donnex, Catherine appears to be married to Henry Donnex, and living in George Street, Cambridge. She was aged 30 and born at Linton. Henry was aged 37, a general dealer and born in London. Their children were sons A. aged 3, born in Cambridge and H. aged 1, born in Cambridge. There was also a daughter in law (i.e. step-daughter to Henry) Elizabeth Gibson, aged 7 and born in Cambridge. ‘Elizabeth’ makes it clear that Catherine Donnex was formerly Gibson. The proximity of Catherine Donnex to Ann Gibson in George Street in 1851 (same page in the census) reinforces the suggestion that they could be related.

In April 1857 Henry Donnex, publican, was charged with assault in Staffordshire Place and fined 5s and costs. (Cambridge Independent Press 11 April 1857).

In July 1860 Henry brought a case, which was widely reported, against Mr Turrall, the superintendent of the borough police, in the Nisi Prius Court, Cambridge, before the Lord Chief Justice Erle. Henry was after further compensation above the 40s already offered and the case concerned an apparent abuse of power over Henry’s arrest on the passing of a suspect shilling from Henry Donnex to a pieman on 24 March 1860. Henry was drinking the Sydney Arms in Sussex Street and had apparently tried to pass the coin to the landlady but she declined it. He next tried to pass it to the pieman who accepted it, after buying pies for two ladies. The pieman gave 10d change to Henry and then realised it was suspect and tried to get Henry to take it back but he declined. The pieman claimed that Henry knew it was a bad one. Henry was arrested after the police were called but the coin (tested by a jeweller in some versions) subsequently proved to be genuine. The court passed a verdict in favour of the defendant and it seems that the Court’s view was that Henry had set out deliberately to mislead the landlady, pieman and the police, with a view to winning a bet and perhaps as a means of obtaining compensation. During the questioning it was stated that Henry was a horse-dealer and pig jobber, and he described himself as a cattle dealer. He had been in business for about 12 years and was in a substantial position of life in Cambridge. Some weeks he did business to the amount of £200-£300 and some weeks he did nothing. He had previously been committed for a week twice for assaults on women but that was many years ago, he had been fined for being drunk and very likely fined for assaulting a man, had been charged with taking Mr Foster’s sacks (but acquitted) and brought before the Bench for threatening a person. He had been a chimney-sweep when a boy and was not drunk on the night in question though might have drunk half a dozen glasses. He lived on Newmarket Road but did not know it was Barnwell. Judgement was given in favour of Mr Turrall (Cambridge Independent Press 28 July 1860).

In 1861, at 190 New Market Road, Cambridge (St Andrew the Less, West Barnwell), Henry was aged 38, a cattle dealer, born at Cambridge. His wife, Catherine, was aged 40, a house wife born at Linton. Their children were Alfred aged 13, Henry aged 10, Frederick aged 8, Ellen aged 6, Hannah aged 3 and Charlotte aged 1, all born at Cambridge.

Henry was something of a wheeler and dealer and continued to appear before the Police Courts and Petty Sessions though he seemed mostly to get away with it. He and his sons had something of a reputation with the courts.

In 1869, when Hannah was baptised, he was a cattle dealer living in Staffordshire Street.

1871 (190)

William Worboy, 40, master blacksmith, b Chesterton

Eliza, 39, Burwell

Lucy, 16, dressmaker, b Cambridge

John, 13, telegraph messenger, b Cambridge

William, 11, b Chesterton

Charles, 8, b Chesterton

Eliza E, 6, b Chesterton

Emma, 3, b Cambridge

Fred, 10 mos, b Cambridge

1881 (190)

Samuel Brown, 34, dealer, b Cambridge

Martha, 30, b Cambridge

Mahlia, 10, b Cambridge

Katie, 2, b Cambridge

William Hammond, brother, 33, dealer, b Cambridge

Florence Stearn, servant, 16, b Stapleford

1891 (190)

Jonathan Speechley, 54, drover, b Hunts

Isabella, 56, b Cambs

Annie, 20, bookbinder, b Cambridge

Samuel, 17, drover, b Cambridge

William, 11, b Cambridge

1901 (190)

Thomas Swann, 34, carter, b Cambridge

Elizabeth, 32, b Cambridge

Dorothy, 6, b Cambridge

John T, 5, b Cambridge

Grace, 3, b Cambridge

baby boy, 5 days, b Cambridge

1911 (201)

Thomas Swann

Elizabeth

Dorothy, nursemaid

John, errand boy

Grace

Leslie, 10

Maudy, 4, b Cambridge

1913

T C Swann

1962 not listed

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