Skip to content
  • home
  • map
  • search
Capturing Cambridge
  • search
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Instagram
  • Home
  • /
  • Projects
  • /
  • Centre Cambridge
  • /
  • Bridge Street
  • Back Forward
A sepia-toned view of a river with a person standing on a flat-bottomed ferry boat beside a treelined bank and distant house.

Dant’s Ferry

3 Quayside / Jolly Waterman

History of 3 Quayside

1851 eleven persons in two households

1861 (in 1851 David Dant was a waterman living with his family at The Chequers, Church End, St Ives. When the family moved to Cambridge they operated Dant’s Ferry over the Cam.)

David Dant, 53, waterman, b Hunts

Catharine, 53, b Hunts

Eliza, 30, cook, b Hunts

Samuel, 28, waterman, b Hunts

John, 27, b Hunts

Mary A, 24, b Hunts

Sarah, 22, b Hunts

Maria, daughter in law, 22, b Hunts

Elizabeth, daughter, 19, b Hunts

Charles, 17, b Hunts

George, 15, b Hunts

Emma, 14, b Hunts

Susannah, granddaughter, 9, b Hunts

John, grandson, 2, b Cambridge

George, grandson, 11 mos, b Hunts

Projects

  • Bridge Street

Share this article

Share onFacebook Share onBluesky

Contribute

Do you have any information about the people or places in this article? If so, then please let us know using the Contact page or by emailing capturingcambridge@museumofcambridge.org.uk.

Licence

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 not including content on external links as indicated byexternal link.

Bridge Street

12 Bridge Street, The George Inn, Cambridge

74 Bridge Street

20 Bridge Street / The Salutation

Quayside, Bridge Street, Cambridge

57 Bridge Street

8 Bridge Street

55 Bridge Street

13 Bridge Street, Cambridge

53 Bridge Street

29 Bridge Street / the Crow / the Tawbert