Thatched cottage, Clement Place, demolished in 1972

Clement Court / Clement Place, Park Street

History of Clement Place, Park Street

In the 1861 census Clement Court is listed in the vicinity of Portugal Place and Park Street.

On the 1885 Cambridge town plan Clement Place is shown running west from the junction of Lower Park Street and Park Street, near Portugal Place.

1841

(9):

Timothy Loker, 25, college servant,

Caroline, 25,

Frederick, 7,

Caroline, 4,

Arthur, 3,

Henry, 8 mos,

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1851

(13)

Timothy Loker, 38, college servant, b Cherry Hinton

Caroline Loker [née Novell], 37, b Cambridge [1811 – 1880]

Frederick, 17, boot closer, b Cambridge [1833-1906]

Caroline, 14, b Cambridge

Arthur, 13, b Cambridge [1838-1916]

Henry, 10, b Cambridge [1840-1856]

Henry died in 1856 aged 16. Timothy wrote a poem ‘On the Death of My Son Henry.’

In 1861 the Loker family were at 7 Clement Lane

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1861

(1) Jane Gee, 37, housekeeper, b Cambridge

(2) vacant

(3) David Rignell, 30, post office messenger, b Longstanton

(4) George Keene, 37, cordwainer, b Exeter

(5) Samuel W Varley, 38, ostler, b Surrey

(6) Henry Stubbings, 25, labourer, b Cambridge

(7) Joseph Rayner, 37, groom, b Granchester

(8) Hammond Spinks, 36, shoemaker, b Suffolk

(9) William Collingwood, 25, coach smith, b Cambridge

(10) Richard Callaby, 47, livery stable keeper, b Norfolk

(11) James Cox, 41, boot maker, b Godmanchester

(12) Arthur Mole, 32, tailor, b Beds

(13)

John Dickinson, head, 56, cordwainer, b Gloucs

Alfred James Cooper, head, 25, bootmaker, b Middlesex

(14) Charles Gee, 45, bookbinder, b Cambridge

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1871

(1)

Philip Butler, 41, ramoneur [?], b Cambridge

(2)

William Pilbeam, 57, French polisher, b Middlesex

(3)

Owen Pilgrim, 23, billiard marker, b Great Chesterford

(4)

Charles Brumby, 33, painter, b Cambridge

(5)

Jacob Smith, 59, gardener, b Histon

(6)

Fred C Hammond, 23, mason’s laborer, b Abingdon

(7)

Joseph Rayner, 50, groom, b Grantchester

(8)

Hammond Spinks, 45, bootmaker, b Suffolk

(9)

George Teversham, 55, groom and gardener, b Suffolk

(10)

William Heffer, 28, groom, b Exning Suffolk

Mary, 34, b Balsham

Charles, 7, b Cambridge

Harry, 6, b Cambridge

Kate A, 4, b Cambridge

George H, 2, b Cambridge

Thomas W Baynes, lodger, 26, ironmonger’s assistant, b Essex

In 1861 William Heffer was a groom at Paxton House.

According to Sidney Heffer’s biography, William worked when he came to Cambridge as a groom to a doctor, Dennis Adams, at 30 Sidney Street. The doctor was a keen huntsman and kept three horses for following the hounds. He also had to drive the doctor’s guests, often inebriated, home after dinner. When William left the doctor’s service he became an ardent temperance worker. However, he did meet Mary Crick, who worked as cook and housekeeper for the doctor. William and Mary later married.

In 1881 William was living at 104 Fitzroy Street.

(11)

Emma Tyson, 24, waterman’s wife, b St Ives

(12)

Arthur Mole, 42, tailor, b Beds

(13)

Phebe Emmans, 60, college servant, b Cambridge

(14)

Henry Cox, 31, licensed dealer in tobacco, b Norfolk

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1913

1. Alfred Bidwell
2. Mrs Burton
3. Benjamin Stokes
4. Mrs Dewsbury
5. –
6. J Braddle
7. Mrs Stubbings
8. Mrs Walker
9. –
10. John Slater
11. Ernest Aden, cabinet maker
12. Boy Scouts (Mr Curzon)
13. Mrs Hincliffe
14. Mrs Annie Royston

1940 an account of a family who were evacuated to Clement Place in WWII can be found here written by George Dethridge:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/33/a1070533.shtml

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Soon after 1963 Cambridge’s last thatched cottage was demolished in Clement Place.