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201 (190) Newmarket Road
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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