Arthur Gray in Cambridge Revisited notes that over the entrance is a red tablet recording that : “Charles Lamb lodged here in August, 1819.” Here Lamb and his sister Mary met the little orphan daughter of Charles Isola, one of the Esquire Bedells of the University. They were afterwards to adopt her.
James Bays, hatter
Frances, wife
Charles, son, b 1804
Charles married Mary Bradshaw. He died in 1877 and by 1881 Mary had moved to 3 Bay Terrace Norwich Street where she died in 1882.
Charles bays, 46, hatter
Charles Bays, 66, hatter, b Cambridge
Mary, 59, b Huntingdon
William, 35, hatter, b Cambridge
Agnes, 32, b Cambridge
Edwin, 27, architect, b Cambridge
Henrietta, 23, b Cambridge
Emily, 19, b Cambridge
Agatha, 8, granddaughter, b London
Celia Barton, servant, 19, b Weston Colville
Emma Goodman, 16, servant, b Lincoln
Bays and Son, hatters and hosiers
Walter Edward Bays
Bays & Son, hatters, hosiers and shirt makers
James W Bays
Fudge Kitchen
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