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By Dormskirk - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.orgin this census there are four unnamed properties which could be Bleak Cottages but there are no names of residents that match the 1901 entries.
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.)
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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