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58 - 59 Sidney Street (British Library)(60) Henry Taylor, 25, tailor clothier, b Cambridge
Mary Taylor, 23, b Chesterton
(59) George Shippey, ironmonger, b Cambridge
Ann, 34, b Bedford
George, 12, b Cambridge
Susanna, 8, b Cambridge
Alfred Vining, apprentice, 20, ironmonger, b Somerset
Adelaide Barker, 18, cook, b Cambs
Mary Ann Rose, 15, servant, b Cambs
(58) Thomas Hennesy, 52, innkeeper, b Hunts
Francis, 52, b Bedford
Fanny, 23, b Hunts
Emma, 21, b Hunts
Elizabeth, 19, b Hunts
Harriett Hopwood, 20, servant, b Essex
William Reynolds, 16, errand boy, b Essex
(57) Thomas Bond, 71, grocer, b Hardwick
Elizabeth, 60, b Royston
Anne Crow Bond, daughter, 35, b Cambridge
Alfred Bryan, 26, assistant grocer, b Leics
Benjamin Thomas, 24, assistant grocer, b Wales
Sarah Parsons, 26, servant, b Sawston
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Joshua Taylor Sidney Street
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The relationship that developed between Ranjitsinhji, the great cricketer Indian prince, and Mary Holmes is recorded here:
https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/ranji-his-love-life-and-letters/215905
He rented a whole train to take his love Mary Holmes (also called Madge and Poly) to London for a holiday in the 1890s even as he was deeply in debt owing money to his tailor, bartender, grocer, newsagent and restauranteur. It all started when Ranji was cycling past Bond and Holmes (established 1874) their huge grocery store on Cambridge’s 57 Sidney Street, when the two sisters Mary and Minnie saw the Indian prince for the first time. Finding him extremely attractive they dropped their handkerchief for Ranji to pick up. Once he picked it up, the journey had begun. The next stop was the Holmes house above their store. The 18 year old Ranji soon became a regular. Only after a few months he started calling Mr. and Mrs. Holmes mother and father.
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Joshua Taylor, department store
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