In the 1911 Census there are properties listed as “North Place, Back of North Terrace Histon Road.”
The 1913 Kelly’s refers to a ‘passage leading to Back of North Terrace’ but the location doesn’t seem to be listed.
1911
No 5 North Place, Back of North Terrace Histon Road
Albert Sidney Prime, 27, Italian warehouseman, b Chesterton
Edith, 28, b Great Eversden
Dorothy Lilian, 4, b Chesterton
Sidney James, 3, b Chesterton
Vera Gladys, 1, b Chesterton
No 4
George Rooke, 26, bricklayer, b Cambridge
Margaret, 25, factory hand jam factory, b Cambridge
No 3
Walter Parsons
No 2
Charles Cobbold, 42, groom livery stables, b Chesterton
Anne, 35, b Chesterton
Arthur, 15, college servant kitchen department, b Chesterton
Charles, 12, b Chesterton
Alice, 5, b Chesterton
Mabel, 2, b Chesterton
Charles Albert Cobbold: Private 25416, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). Died in United Kingdom 6th October 1917. Aged 19. Enlisted Cambridge.
No 1
F Game
No 3 North Place Hive Cottages Histon Road
William G Butler, 55, jam factory worker, b Milton
Grace, 48, b Milton
Henry G, 24, farm hand, b Milton
Sidney, 20, farm hand, b Milton
William G, 18, carpenter, b Milton
Charles N, 16, milliners carrier, b Milton
Walter B, 14, b Milton
Redver, 11, b Milton
Gladys, 8, b Milton
Stanley, 5, b Chesterton
Margrete U, 4, b Chesterton
Charles Nelson Butler enlisted with the Suffolk Regiment. He was killed 5th May 1915 aged 20. He is buried in Histon cemetery.
No 2 North Place Hive Cottages Histon Road
Albert Redfern, 49, labourer electric light, b Cambridge
Frances, 59, b Yorks
William, nephew, 20, printer, b Cambridge
No 1 North Place Hive Cottages Histon Road
John Tomson, 25, stonemason, b Chesterton
Maud, 24, b Suffolk
Dorothy, 3, b Madingley
The UK Roll of Honour has the following description which may be the same person as John Tomson:
Thomas Tomson: Sapper 84473, 203rd Field Company, Royal Engineers, died of wounds 6th November 1918. Aged 32. Born Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, enlisted Cambridge. Eldest son of Mrs. E. Tomson, of Cambridge; husband of H. M. Tomson, of 1, Hive Cottages, North St, Cambridge. In the 1911 census he was aged 25, married for 4 years to Maud with one daughter, a Stonemason, born Chesterton, resident 1 North Place, Hive Cottages Back of Histon Road, Chesterton, Cambridge.
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