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Railway Bridge Coal Wharf (a private railway siding)
Wm Peacock, merchant’s clerk
Ann, 69, wife, born Hunts
Ellen Easton, granddaughter, 8, born London
John Phillips, lodger, 19, clerk, born Cambridge
William Peacock, widower, 65, coal yard manager, born St Ives
Jane Roggers, servant, 48, housekeeper, born Cambs
Beales Coal Depot
Jabez C Cornwall, 36, foreman coal yard, born Cambs
Elizabeth M, 39, born Cambs
Flossie E, 6, born Cambridge
Edward Beales, 31, coal merchant, born Cambridge
James Warren, servant, 66, horsekeeper, born Essex
Sarah Warren, servant, 64, housekeeper, born Suffolk
Sidney James Wilson, 26, foreman of coal wharf, born Cambridge
Sarah Alice, 24, born London
Dorothy Georgina, 5, born Cambridge
Sidney Wilson, foreman
P Beales and Co., Coal Wharf
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