Blue Lion Court (Yard)

History of Blue Lion Court St Andrew's Street

Approximate position

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