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William Jackson Pope

7 West Road (New Road), Holm Leigh / Homeleigh

History of 7 West Road

1871

Edwin Fuller, 20, gardener’s assistant, b Cambridge

George Dean, 21, gardener’s apprentice, b Fulbourn

1881

Edmund Carver

1891

Carver

West Road OS map 1903

1901 Holm Leigh

Hawkes

1911

Joseph Thomson [Nobel Prize for Physics 1906], 54, professor of experimental physics, b Manchester

Rose Elizabeth, 52, b Cambridge

George Paget, 18, b Cambridge

Joan Paget, 8, b Cambridge

Gertrude Mary Gibson, governess, 18, b Lancs

Ellen Victoria Adams, 23, servant, b Cambridge

Annie Louisa Thrower, 26, servant, b Ely

Kathleen Wallage, 21, servant, b Wood Ditton

Homeleigh, West Road, Christmas card (date unknown)

In 1881 J J Thomson was a Fellow living at Trinity College. At the time of the 1891 census he was a visitor at Ventnor, Isle of Wight. For the 1901 census he was staying in Caernarvonshire.

1913

Joseph John Thompson

Sir Joseph John Thomson, Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics

In the 1939 register he is Master of Trinity College, living there with his wife Rose.

1939

William Jackson Pope, b 1870, university professor of chemistry

Violet C Herbert, b 1879, private means

Lily Utteridge, b 1914, cook

Ethel G Pearce, b 1906, parlourmaid

Edith Whiye, b 1893, sick nurse

1962

Department of Applied Economics

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