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SD 1787, Burwell House (RGL2024)

Burwell House

History of Burwell House

Burwell House was built buy Salisbury Dunn circa 1878 and extended in Victorian times by Edward Ball, MP. It was purchased by Cambridgeshire County Council in 1964.

Salisbury Dunn was born circa 1753 in Isleham. He married Ann Riste (b 1763) on 1st March 1786 in Isleham.

They had 12 children. Of these:

Sarah Dunn b 1791 married Charles Finch 26 Dec. 1809, Burwell Parish Church.

Ann Dunn, b July 1795 married Edward Ball, 1816, St Mary’s Church Burwell

Susannah Dunn married James Nutter 11 May 1815, Burwell Parish church.

Caroline Dunn, b bef. 1803, married George Hemington Harris of Trumpington, 3 May 1825 Burwell Parish Church.

1841

Edward Ball, 47, merchant

Ann Ball née Cadywold, 45,

Sarah Finch, 50, independent

Elizabeth Ball [mother Ann Dunn], 15,

Sarah Ball [mother Ann Cadywold], 13,

Susan Ball, 10,

William Ball, 11,

Salisbury Ball, 6,

Frederic Ball, 4,

Mary Hawes, 16, servant

Sarah Marshall, servant, 21,

Susan Bacon, 15, servant,

Edward’s first wife, Ann née Dunn had died in 1824. He married Ann Cadywold in Kimberley Norfolk in 1825.

1861

North Street:

Edward Ball, 67, MP Magistrate and farmer of 450 acres and employing 12 men and 7 boys, b Hastings

Ann, 66, b Norfolk

William, 29, b Burwell

Susanna, 27, b Burwell

Salisbury, 24, b Burwell

Harriet Webb, 18, housemaid, b Swaffham Prior

Mary A Boutle,  18, cook, b Reach

In 1871 Edward Ball is 78 and living with his daughter Louisa’s family in Chatham.

 

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