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22 Magdalene Street

History of 22 Magdalene Street

1959 Royal Commission on Historical Monuments Survey of Cambridge: nos. 21 & 22, of two storeys with attics, has plastered timber-framed walls and tiled roofs. The range to the street was built in the 16th cent and a small cottage some yards to the west in the first half of the 17th cent; the two were then linked by an 18th cent. block, and a kitchen was added on the W in the following century. the cottage, the kitchen and other minor 18th and 19th cent. additions were demolished in 1956.

1861

Richard Moore, 37, grocer, b Isle of Man

1911

Frank Laurie, 36, Grocer on own account, born Cambridge

Emma Amelia Laurie, 31, born Cambridge

Grace Emily Moore Laurie, 26, unmarried, wife’s sister, furrier, born Cambridge

Herbert William Frank Laurie, 2, born Cambridge

1913

Frank Laurie, grocer and provision merchant

1962

Coulson & Co, printers

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