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18 Market Street c.1960JW sent this note in 2023:
Chappel Brand Smith (my 2x Great Grandfather) was baptised 24 August 1823 at All Saints, Cambridge. He was the second child of Foreman and Susannah Smith. In 1826 his Great Uncle Chappell Gilbert Brand died and left him property in West Wratting. He also inherited a sum of money when his Great Aunt Elizabeth Brand died in 1839. He married Jane Harriet Dimmock on 1 August 1844 by licence. They had nine children – William, Frederic, Harry, Emily, Charles, Edmond, Albert, Frank and Ernest.
1851
Chappel Brand Smith, 27, hosier, b Cambridge
Jane Harriett, 26, b Cambridge
William Henry Chappel, 5, b Cambridge
Frederick John, 4, b Cambridge
Harry Thomas, 3, b Cambridge
Eleanor Sarah Dimmock, wife’s sister, 15, b Cambridge
Matilda Harvey, 19, servant, b Chatteris
In 1871 Frederic John Smith was living at 15 Clarendon Street.
In 1871 William Henry Chappel Smith was living at 13 Clarendon Street
In 1881 William was at 13 Market Street.
In addition to the 1851 census the family were still living there in 1861 and 1871 census. However Chappel died 20 December 1871 due to chronic liver disease and dropsy. According to his will his estate was worth approximately £4,000. Chappell is buried in the family plot in Mill Road Cemetery. Jane Harriett went on to remarry a Joseph Parkinson and moved to London. When she died in 1911 she was also buried in the family plot in Mill Road. Emily married Charles Bremner in 1874 in Finchley.
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