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1851: Blue Lion Yard
Henry Rooke, 41, college servant, Dry Drayton
John D Bradbury, 29, cabinet maker, b Surrey
William Overhill, 24, shoemaker, b Castle Camps
William Clements, 58, smith’s labourer, b Horningsea
John Bull, 63, bookbinder, b Cambridge [believed to have worked at the Pitt Press]
Isabella, 53, b Suffolk
William, 22, tailor, b Cambridge
Susannah, 20, dressmaker, b Cambridge
Isabella, 16, b Cambridge
John Bull was born in 1787 in Great Eversden, and married Isabella Boreham at St Andrew the Great in 1827. He died in 1855 in Cambridge.
William Hopper, 46, plumber glazier and printer, b Little Shelford
John Bowyer, 31, groom, b Brinkley
Sarah Slater, 26, bonnet maker, b Barrington
Phillip Saint, 33, cordwainer, b Godmanchester
Robert Anderson, 35, labourer, b Royston
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1861: Blue Lion Yard:
(1) Rebecca Thompson, 71, b Trumpington
(2) Rebecca Rooke, 51, laundress
(3) Matthew Munns, 39, whitesmith, b Soham
(4) Henry Brown, 42, bricklayer, b Cambridge
(5) vacant
(6) Ellis Rooke, 23, labourer, b Cambridge
(7) James Gilchrist, 77, formerly shoemaker,
(8) Elizabeth Horobin, 38, By Labour [?], b Ashley
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1871: Blue Lion Yard
(1) Rebecca Thompson, 81, housekeeper, b Trumpington
(2) Rebecca Rooke, 60, nurse, b Cambridge
(3) Edwin Dennis, 29, gardener, b Beds
(4) Henry Brown, 52, bricklayer, b Cambridge
(5) Rebecca Elphick, 44, tailoress, b Norfolk
(6) Simon Barker, 31, sexton, b Cambridge
(7) Joseph Clements, 42, labourer, b Cambridge
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1881: Blue Lion Court
(2)
Rebecca Rooke, 70, b Cambridge
(3)
Thomas Perkins, 43, shoemaker, b Cambridge
(4)
Arthur Humphrey, 23, labourer, b Essex
(5)
David Clark, 32, drapers porter, b Bourn
Sarah E, 29, b West Wrtatting
Gertrude, 10, b Cambridge
Alice, 7, b Cambridge
David, 5, b Cambridge
[In 1881 the Clark family were at 10 Searle Street]
(6)
Rebecca Clark, 71, nurse, b Saffron Waldon, blind
(7)
Henry Askham, 31, fishmonger. b Cambridge
(8)
William Payne, 34, labourer, b Cambridge
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