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St Andrew's Street nos 26 - 30The Grand Arcade excavation report (2019) notes for this site, Plot XIX:
In the 1830s the plot tail of the northern part of Plot XIX was redeveloped into a series of 11 small buildings, collectively known as St Andrew’s Court. This comprised an expansion of the five cottages that had existed here since 1771 and represents the creation of a small area of ‘slumland’ (Mayne & Murray 2001). These buildings had shallow footings and only fragments of these survived as Building 53, demonstrating that the individual structures were c. 5.5m wide by 4.5m deep. They consisted of a single ground floor room plus one or two upstairs bedrooms and each structure had its own separate WC and small open area. The development generally had c. 35–40 occupants at any time and was inhabited by relatively poor working class families, including lower status College servants such as bedmakers.
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1851: unnumbered
William Peak, 32, furniture dealer employing 1 man, b Cambridge
Elizabeth, 31, b Middlesex
Rebecca, 6, b Cambridge
William, 4, b Cambridge
John, 2, b Cambridge
Robert N, 8mos, b Cambridge
Jane Trigg, 18, housemaid, b Thriplow
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1861:
William Peake, 42, baker, b Cambridge
Rebecca, 16, b Cambridge
John, 12, b Cambridge
Elizabeth, 8, b Cambridge
Charles R, 6, b Cambridge
Edwin S, 3, b Cambridge
Susan Gee, 26, servant, b Hunts
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1871:
Josh Rogers, 49, watch maker and clerk, b Yorks
Mary, 50, b Yorks
William, 19, clerk, b Yorks
Mary Y, 20, b Yorks
H E Rogers, 16, son, b Yorks
F J, son, 14, b Yorks
A M, daughter, 11, b Cambridge
A E, son, 9, b Cambridge
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1881: Coal Office
Harry Morgan, 30, wash and service bath proprietor, b Suffolk
Mary A, 31, b Cambridge
Matilda Newling, 16, servant, b Haslingfield
Robert Grimston, 20, boarder, undergraduate, b Oxon
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1891:
George Dunwell, 45, clerk, b Cambridge
Emma, 43, b Sawston
William, 14, clerk, b Cambridge
Sydney, 12, b Cambridge
Minnie, 10, b Cambridge
Alfred, 7, b Cambridge
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1901:
Annie Craig, 47, hairdresser, b Scotland
Annie M Christie, niece, 15, b Scotland
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1911:
Annie Craig, 56, ladies hairdresser, b Scotland
Dorothy Clark, 18, servant, b Cambridge
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1913:
Miss Annie Craig, ladies hairdresser
1962:
Millett’s Stores, clothiers
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