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Crane Inn, Crane Yard, Market Street (Shoemaker Row)

History of the Crane Yard, Market Street

Approximate position of Crane Yard. The Crane was a very old inn on Market Street first mentioned soon after 1500.

1594

Transfer from John Bettis of Trinity Hall to Richard Green of Cambridge

1640

Simon Green of Oakington to Christopher Rose of Cambridge

1683

Christopher Rose to John Fowkes of Cambridge, baker

1688

John Fowkes and wife Elizabeth to John Woolfe

1721

From Anne Woolfe (now wife of Thomas Paris), but occupied by William Paymond, to Joseph Pyke and Thomas Matthews

1744

To Matthew Leach and Obadiah Sully

1795

Anne’s children Thomas and Bridget paris inherit and sell to Thomas Sumpter Headly, ironmonger of Cherry Hinton

1801

From him to Gilbert Ives in trust for James Gotobed

1806

Thomas and John Dison to Samuel Clements, from him to John Bones

1809

Bones to James Nutter, then John Bedell

1824

Elizabeth Clay Paris and John Ayrton Paris to William Macintosh

1842

1842 Nutter sale, property adjacent and over Crane Inn (Cambridgeshire Archives)

1845

Josiah Chater recorded that he fetched a pint of milk from The Crane.

1851

Robert Dyer, 40, landlord Crane Inn, b Cambridge

Harriet, 36, b Cambridge

Eliza, 12, b Cambridge

Joseph, 10, b Sutton

Harriett, 8, b Sutton

Sarah Ann, 2, b Cambs

Mary Ann, 6 months, b Cambs

John Corts, lodger, 30, soldier, b Hunts

Susan Corts, 25, b Somerset

Robert Arnold, lodger, 20, soldier, b London

Henry Davis, lodger, 26, soldier, b Leicester

Edward Goodwin, lodger, 19, soldier, b Kent

George Ellingworth, lodger, 28, soldier, b Yorks

James Jervis, lodger, 18, carpenter, b Cambridge

George Bird, lodger, 21, turner, b Cambridge

Samuel Beadley, lodger, 36, soldier, b Norfolk

Ann Beadley, 27, b Stapleford

Harry Medlock Beadley, 3, b Gt Shelford

(2 Crane Yard) Robert Barrett, 40, labourer, b Cambridge

Elizabeth, 38, b Fulbourn

(3 Crane Yard) Francis Hall, widow, 47, nurse, b Cambridge

Harriett, 15, nursemaid

(4 Crane Yard) William Stubbins, 55, widower

1885

Inherited by sons Alexander and James Macintosh and daughter, now Susannah Shortrede

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