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19-20 Portugal Place1881:
(19)
Towns Gatliffe, 72, retired postmaster, b Lincs
Charlotte, 68, b Hemingford Abbots
(20)
Henry Charles, 58, college servant, b Cambridge
Elizabeth, 57, formerly college servant, b Over
Alice, 23, b Cambridge
Walter F R Weldon, boarder, 21, university student, b London
In 1891 the Charles family were living at 29 Portugal Place. Their son was living at 3 Bridge Street. Henry Charles was a groom at St John’s College. This was a post held by his father. Both their wives were ‘bedders’ at the college. In 1871 Henry Charles lived at 4 Drummer Street.
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1913:
(19) Walter Andrews, painter
(20) vacant
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1962: (19/20)
Francis Crick
Francis Harry Compton Crick, 1962 Nobel prize for medicine with Maurice Wilkins and James Watson
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