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By Dormskirk - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org

195 Cherry Hinton Road, 1 Bleak Cottages

History of 195 Cherry Hinton Road

1891

in this census there are four unnamed properties which could be Bleak Cottages but there are no names of residents that match the 1901 entries.

1901

Thomas Pierson

Eleanor, wife, 33

Thomas

Charles, 11, born Cambridge

Robert W

Edmund

Ida M Murray, boarder, 10, born England (n.k.)

Marie Murray, boarder, 7, born England (n.k.)

1911

Thomas Pierson, 56, printer compositor, born Cambridge

Helen, 45, (married 10 years, 1 child), born Berks.

Thomas, 23, boot repairer, born Cambridge

Robert Walter, 19, apprentice carpenter and joiner, born Cambridge

Edmund, 15, florist’s errand boy, born Cambridge

Kitty, 9, born Cambridge

Edmund Pierson, b 1895, son of Mr T E and Mrs Pierson of The Island Bungalow, Quy, was a florist’s errand boy in 1911. He served as a corporal in 1st Bttn Cambridgeshire Regiment and was killed on 4/9/1916, presumably in action on the Somme.

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