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Charles Nelson Butler 1915North Place, Histon Road
History of North Place
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.
Private Charles Butler 14.5.1915 Cambridge Chronicle
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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