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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

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