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1901:
Samuel Stanton, 57, bank cashier, b Wisbech
Susannah C, 61, b Lincoln
Elizabeth M, 32, b London
Charlotte L, 31, school mistress, b London
Emma H Blackley, 18, servant, b Cambridge
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1911:
Ernest Edwards Jones, 43, civil engineer, b Neath
Fanny Clare, 39, b Gloucester
Hilda Edwards, 16, b Gloucester
Mona Edwards, 14, b Neath
William Edwards, 13, b Neath
Basil Edwards, 11, b Poole
Muriel Edwards, 9, b Poole
Dora Edwards, 7, b Cambridge
Howard Edwards, 7, b Cambridge
Annie Nellie Payton, 18, b Waterbeach
William Edwards Jones: Trooper 1401, Essex Yeomanry. Killed in action 14th May 1915. Age 19. Enlisted Colchester, resident Watford. Son of Ernest Edwards Jones and Clara Jones, of Western Moor, Neath, Glamorgan. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 5. See also Cambridge Guildhall, Cambridge County High School and Perse School (St Paul’s Roll of Honour)
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1913: York House
Ernest Edwards Jones
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1950s:
The house was owned by John Kay, former colleague of Peter Danckwerts, at Cambridge University. Kay had moved to Risley to work in the UK Atomic Energy Authority in 1952 and he let the house. In 1954, when he became professor at Imperial College, he returned to Yorke House at weekends.
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1959:
Purchased by Peter Danckwerts and his wife Lavinia. Peter had been appointed as Cambridge’s Shell professor in 1959.
There is a detailed description of life at the house in ‘Life on the edge – Peter Danckwerts’, by Peter Varey, 2012.
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1962: Cambridge city decided to issue a compulsory purchase order for York House. It was finally demolished in 1967.
In 1964 the family moved to Abbey House.
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