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1911:
(22)
Alfred Mansfield, 67, labourer electric light works, b Isleham
Mary, 64, b Chesterton
Walter James, 26, union society club servant, b Cambridge
Edward Whybrow, boarder, 26, labourer, b Cambridge
(76)
Edmund Cross, lodger, 67, widower, retired solicitor, b Cambridge
Albert Edmund Chisholm, 17, solicitor’s clerk, b Cambridge
In 1901 Albert had been living with Edmund at 6 Cromwell Place, Cambridge, which seems to have been very near Walnut Tree Avenue.
Albert Edmund Chisholm: Lance Corporal G/40645, 12th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own). Killed in action Thursday 3rd May 1917 in France & Flanders. Age 23. Born and resident Cambridge, enlisted Chelsea, Middlesex. Adopted son of Edmund Cross, of 76, Walnut Tree Avenue, Cambridge. Formerly, Middlesex Hussars. Commemorated on ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Bay 7. See also Cambridge Guildhall (Cambridge Gas Roll of Honour)
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1913:
NEWMARKET ROAD
The Fire Reel Station
East Side
Wortley’s cow sheds
(14) Alfred Mansfield, water company employee
[Alfred Mansfield was the leader of the New Street Men’s Bible Class. ‘Barnwell at War’ (2018) recalls that Alfred had a letter from one of his member’s Sergeant Arthur Harvey.]
(16) Walnut Cottage: William Herbert Chalkley, carpenter
French’s stables
(20) Edward Stearn, college servant
(22) Little Abbey: Alfred Mansfield senior, labourer
(24) Joseph Harry Savidge
LANCASTER TERRACE
(26) Haslop Priest, corporation servant
(28) Henry J Harradine, builder’s labourer
(30) Edward Bell, motor driver
(32) John Appleton Holmes
(34) Mrs Pratt, laundress
(36) Alexander P Brice, Co-operative Society’s assistant
(38) Sidney J Smith, reader at University Press
(40) Alfred Nightingale, warehouseman
(52) Homer’s View: Frederick Brown, cabinet maker
(54) Fernlea: PC Johnson
(56) Scardeburg: Wilfred newman, plumber
(58) Claremont: Herbert Leslie Batterbee, carpenter and joiner
(60) Thomas Craig, traveller
(62) Edward William Stearn, clerk
(64) Sidney William Allen, electrical engineer
(66) Elsie House: Thomas Coward, tailor
(68) Exmouth House: Mrs C Partridge
(70) Charles Adams, college servant
(72) Albert Edward Doust, gas fitter
(74) Mrs Levett
(76) Mrs Broom
(78) Edward James Richardson; Edmund Cross
(80) Frederick Freeman, plumber; Francis Freeman
(82) Charles William Morecroft, manager Camb. Exprress Printing Works
(84) Glenwood: Mrs Casey; George Casey
Foochow: Rev Julian J Butler, curate of St Matthew’s
West Side
Primrose Cottage: Harvey Halls, stonemason
(3) Alfred Everett, cab proprietor
(2) Charles Knightley junior, tinsmith
(1) Cheveley House: Mrs Fayers
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