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Pit’s Farm, Burwell

History of Pit's Farm

1871

Robert Stephenson, 24, landowner and farmer of 895 acres employing 24 men and 7 boys also coprolite digger employing 22 men and 3 boys and maltster employing 1 man, b Newmarket

Sarah, 21, b Newmarket

Alice Mary, 11mos, b Burwell

Jessie Rogers, wife’s sister, 22, annuitant, b Newmarket

Sarah Leeks, 26, cook, b Suffolk

Ann Lancaster, 18, housemaid, b Newmarket

Mary Ann Marsh, nurse, 15, b Burwell

Line-drawn map of Cambridgeshire showing village locations, transport routes, and black-shaded areas of coprolite workings.

Cambridgeshire, coprolite map workings


1891

Robert Stephenson, 44, farmer and surveyor, b Suffolk

Sara, 46, b Suffolk

Alice M, 21, student of history, b Burwell

Marjory, 6, b Burwell

Anne Belwright, 31, governess, b Suffolk

Ellen Smith, 18, housemaid, b Soham

Margaret Godfrey, 20, cook, b Essex

Ellen Maskell, 16, housemaid, b Burwell

In 1921 Marjory was at 274 Mill Road

 

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