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9 - 12 Clarendon Street1851:
John Atkins, 40, Tailor, b Elsenham, Kent
Mary Atkins, 40, b. Bury, Suffolk
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1861:
James Miller, 54, Plumber employing 4 men, b. Bury, Suffolk
Caroline Miller, 48, b. Cambridge
Caroline Miller, 19, Dressmaker, b. Cambridge
James Miller, 15, ?Glaziwicks?, b. Cambridge
Louisa Miller, 13, b. Cambridge
George Miller, 11, b. Cambridge
Charles Miller, 9, b. Cambridge
Dinah Miller, 7, b. Cambridge
Lucy Miller, 5, b. Cambridge
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1871:
George S Gower, 56, Railway Accountant, b. Weathersfield, Essex
Mary Gower, 55, b. Whitton, Suffolk
Frederick C Gower, 24, Printer, b. Ipswich
Elizabeth M Gower, 20, ?Assistant Saucy Wool?, b. Ipswich
Martha Ejohnson, 15, Domestic Servant, b. Manchester
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1874 – 8:
Frank Pigot, shorthand writer, reporter, & newspaper correspondent (1874) then Richard Jones (1878)
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1881:
Richard Thomas Jones, 37, Clothiers Shopman, b. Cambridge
Sarah Ann Jones, 37, b. Cambridge
Annie Elizabeth Jones, 11, Scholar, b. Cambridge
Florence Lilly Jones, 7, Scholar, b. Cambridge
George Percy Jones, 2, b. Cambridge
Ernest Willy Jones, 1, b. Cambridge
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1891:
Richard T Jones, 47, Sewing Machine Agent, b. Cambridge
Sarah Ann Jones, 46, b. Cambridge
Florence L Jones, 17, Scholar, b. Cambridge
George P Jones, 12, b. Cambridge
Ernest W Jones, 11, b. Cambridge
Dennis O Jones, 8, b. Cambridge
Moved to #1 by 1901 census
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1895:
Ann Smith, lodging house keeper
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1901:
Ann Smith, 50, b. Brompton, London
Walter C Newman, 37, Head, Schoolmaster, b. Winchester
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1911:
Mary Ann Kent, 66, Lodging Keeper, b. Swaffham Prior
Selina Kent (sisiter), 59, b. Swaffham Prior
Note: these names are recorded as being at #11 – but so is the following entry (Sydney Holmes) – so presumably this is a mistake?
There is no record for #10
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1913:
Miss Ann Smith, lodging-house keeper
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1939:
William Hayden, b 1912, police constable Cambridge Boro
Phyllis, b 1877, Pembroke College bedmaker
Life at 10 Clarendon Street in WWII
Account by PC Hayden of an event during WWII:
William Hayden Pt1
William Hayden Pt2
William Hayden Pt3
The raids that William Hayden describes are:
Tuesday 28th July 1942: a Junkers 88 flew very low over Cambridge in the middle of the night. Bombs were dropped in the vicinity of the Round Church and Thompson’s Lane. According to Jack Overhill’s diary, three people were killed and some injured; a lot of damage was done including some to the Union Society; a cobble weighing about two pounds was flung as far as Charles Lamb’s house on King’s Parade.
Monday 24th February 1941: several planes dropped bombs along Hills Road. Twelve were killed in Hills Road; two women in Grantchester meadows killed.
Date of bombing of Chesterton Junction: not known at present
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In 2020 Maggie Primeau wrote:
All my relatives on fathers side were from Cambridge area (Haydens) Grandmother lived at 10 Clarendon St, father’s brother was Police Constable.
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