249 (170) Newmarket Road, The Seven Stars, Cambridge

History of 249 Newmarket Road

1901

Harry Aves, 34, blacksmith, b Cambridge

Julia, 34, b Ireland

Emily, 11, b Cambridge

Willie, 9, b Cambridge

Mabel, 7, b Cambridge

Nellis, 5, b Cambridge

Ruby, 3, b Cambridge

Maud, 1, b Cambridge

Margaret Plumb wrote about her family in ‘Catholics in Cambridge’ p219f. Her mother, Ruby Aves, was one of seven, six of whom were baptised at the English Martyrs Catholic church. Ruby and her siblings all went to the St Andrew’s School next to the church. She was once hit by Miss Ormerod on the hand with the cane and Ruby’s mother went to complain.

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1910

Seven Stars, Newmarket Road — Crimean veteran Charles Stearn, 4 March 1910
By the death of Charles Stearn of Brookfields Cambridge loses one of its few Crimean veterans. He was born at Barrington and joined the Cambridgeshire Regiment in 1846 with whom he fought at the Alma where at least 1,400 men lost their lives. At Inkerman the Russians came right up to the bayonets and the Russian dead numbered six to each Englishman. After a couple of years in the Crimea the Regiment was sent off to Canada where their boat struck a rock off Newfoundland and went down in half an hour. He had his wife and youngest son on board and got them into the lifeboats with difficulty. Later he was landlord of the Seven Stars on Newmarket Road CWN 10 03 04j & k
Credit: Mike Petty, Cambridge Newmarket Road Scrapbook 1897 to 1990, entry 1910 03 04.

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1911

Scott

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1913

Scott

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1937

Seven Stars, Claud Prior

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1962

Seven Stars PH