10 Petty Cury and entrance to Alexandra Street (MoC126/72)

10 Petty Cury, Cambridge

History of 10 Petty Cury

1841

Thomas King, 20, stationer
Mary, 25
Susan Rutty, 14, servant

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1840s

Petty Cury in the 1840s offered Cambridge residents a mix of shops and Inns.

On Monday July 28th 1845 Josiah Charter wrote in his diary
“in the evening I went to Kings in the Cury & bought 2 sheets of drawing paper at 3d each “
 
The shop he visited was that of Thomas King, bookseller, stationer, news agent and circulating library at No 10 Petty Cury. Thomas King is recorded in the 1841 Census as living there, aged 20 with his wife Mary, 25, & one servant. It is sad to see that by the 1851 Census Mary is a widow with 3 young children (9, 7 & 2) but still running the stationers and with 2 servants.

Josiah Charter further records in his diary on 24 March 1846
“William (his brother) came round to me & brought me a book to read on the Choice of a Wife by a Deacon which is a capital thing & I have ordered one at Kings at least John [? Moden] ordered it for me “

For a list In Kelly’s of the businesses occupying Petty Cury in 1847 see the general entry on Petty Cury.

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1851

Mary King, widow, 36, bookseller, b Cambridge
John W, 9, b Cambridge
Ann E, 7, b Cambridge
Thomas, 2, b Cambridge
Louisa Dockrill, 16, servant, b Gt Shelford
Ellen Bradford, 16, servant, b Fulbourn

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1861

William H Pettit, 24, bookseller employing 2 boys, b Hunts

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1871

Euphrates W Hardwicke, Medical Botanist member of the British Medical Reform Association
Annie, 36, b Notts
Annie J
Edwin Webster
Bertie W, 6, b Cambridge
Constance W
Edith
Harriet E Beard, 26, servant, b Cambridge
Sarah Payne, 21, nursemaid, b Over
Charles Payne, 15, page boy, b Over

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1881

Euphrates Hardwick, widower, member of association of herbalists
Annie J
Edwin W, 20, scholar, b Cambridge
Mary B, 18, b Cambridge
Aldridge B, 14, b Cambridge
Constance, 12, b Cambridge
Edith A, 10, b Cambridge
Harriet Camps,17, servant, b Essex

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1891

Euphrates W Hardwicke, widower, 58, herbalist, b Notts
Annie Jane, 31, sick nurse, b Notts
Connie Jane, 23, b Cambridge
Edith Annie, 20, b Cambridge
Jane Bumpstead, 28, servant, b Cambridge

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1901

Harry W Sumpter, 38, athletic outfitter, b Cambridge
Annie, 37, b London
Cyril R, 11, b Cambridge
Winifred A, 5, b Cambridge
Muriel A, 1, b Cambridge

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1913

The Cambridge Athletic Stores and Sports Depot
H W Sumpter
George Albert Wootten, solicitor

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1962

Hunt Dress Shops Ltd, costumiers

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1971

Joan Barrie