90 (30) Regent Street, Geneva House

History of 90 Regent Street

1851

Anne Freeman, 44, widow, lodging housekeeper,  b Cambridge

Edward, 10, b Cambridge

Edward Barker, head, 23, chemists’s assistant, b Kent

Jane Bank, head, 53, annuitant, b Lincs

Anne Staple, visitor, 60, b Hunts

Elizabeth Phillips, servant, 19, b Northants

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1861 ?

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1871

Frederic Poland Adcock, 35, solicitor, b Cambridge

[Poland Adcock was a lawyer involved in the Jessie Chauntler inquest in 1873]

Mavey, 30, b Manchester

Emma, 8, b Cambridge

Dick, 5, b Cambridge

Alice Chapman, servant, 20, b Cambs

Margaret Foote, 19, servant, b Cambs

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1881

Frederic P Adcock

Laura B, 20, b Cambridge

Richard R, 15, b Cambridge

Jane Handley, 30, servant, b Landbeach

Isabella Hoppett, 26, servant, b Coton

see Mill Road Cemetery entry

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1891

Louise R Moerck, head, 36, principal of school, b Neuchatel Switzerland

Florence Bennett, head, 25, principal of school, b Sunderland

Kathleen Johnson, boarder, 26, general teacher, b Warwicks

Blanche, boarder, 19, general teacher, b Shropshire

Margaret Swan, boarder, 16, scholar, b Cambridge

Mabel, Gent, boarder, 15, scholar, b Saxon Street Cambridge

Lizzie Norman, boarder, 14, scholar, b Cambs

Nellie Gee, boarder, 16, scholar, b London

Kate Coy, boarder, 15, scholar, b Ely

Blanche Gee, boarder, 13, scholar, b London

Julia Holiday, boarder, 10, scholar, b Duxford

Mary Morman, boarder, 12, scholar, b Cambs

Blanche Tindall, boarder, 14, scholar, b London

Nellie Collett, boarder, 12, scholar, b USA

Sophia P Pettit, 62, living on her means, b London

Julia Sadler, 24, housemaid, b Coton

Mary A Hitch, 26, cook, b Littleport

Mademoiselle Moerck seems to have taught at least from 1885 at Llandaff House. She advertises for pupils in April 1885 describing her establishment as one for Young Ladies and offering private lessons in french and German.

An advert of 27/5/1887 in the Cambridge Chronicle and Journal:

Ladies School, Geneva House

39, Regent Street, Cambridge

Madlle Moerck and Miss Bennett having removed to a more commodious house have accommodation for an increased number of boarders and day pupils. Every advantage of a sound English education.

Preparation for Local examinations and Modern Languages by Certified Governesses.

The House is healthily situated, with every convenience for the comfort of resident Pupils.

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1898

Geneva House, Regent Street — YWCA headquarters, 3 June 1898
The Cambridge YWCA, having found its old quarters growing too small and inadequate to its requirements has obtained Geneva House, Regent Street, and there established its head-quarters. Yesterday a meeting was convened at which the Vice Chancellor of the university presided and spoke. He said that the new premises were in every way more suited to the needs of the Association. In their new house the windows of the back rooms, which he fancied would be those most used by the young women, overlooked his garden, and he was unable to disabuse himself of an idea they would keep an eye on him. The Master of Trinity then rose. He said he had known nothing of the removal, and had been ignorant of the nature of the gathering he was to address. He did not like to trust his eyes, which were not of the best. He had never in all his experience known an educational establishment change its quarters without bettering itself
Credit: Mike Petty, Cambridge REGENT STREET Scrapbook, entry 1898 06 03.

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1901

Ethel M Nell, 30, YMCA superintendant, b Berks

Elizabeth Temple, boarder, 26, bookkeeper, b Kent

Alice Richmond, 19, cook, b Fulbourn

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1911

Sarah Elner, 37, caretaker, b Cambridge

William, brother, 30, carter, b Cambridge

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1913

Inland Revenue Valuation Department, W Brereton Wright district valuer

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1924 – 1954

Meeting place for the Gibb Memorial Trust which promoted the publication of research on Arabic, Persian and Turkish texts. 90 Regent Street were the offices of the Clerk to the Trust, W L Raynes and later his son, E G Raynes.

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1964

Eaden Spearing and Raynes solicitors

Hoover Ltd, vacuum cleaners

Roneo Ltd, duplicating machines