
39 Hills Road (53), Felbrigge
History of 39 Hills Road
1861
(53 Hills Road)
Henry D Cossins, 39, corn merchant, born Somerset
Sarah, 37, born Somerset
Caroline, 15, born Somerset
Adelaide Coleman, visitor, 27, born Somerset
Elizabeth Humphrey, 18, servant, born Norfolk
1871
(53 Hills Road)
Henry J Whitehead, attorney and solicitor, treasurer for the Borough of Cambridge
Margaret, wife, 42, born Suffolk
William Henry, 17, born Cambridge
Mary Jane, 16
Gertrude C, 14, born Cambridge
Herbert Edward, 12, born Cambridge
Amy Margaret, 8,
Annie Louise, 7,
Lucy Millar, 21, born Burwell
Eliza Jennings, 15, born Burwell
1881
(53 Hills Road)
Henry J Whitehead
Elizabeth, wife, 39, born Northampton
Mary J
Herbert E, 22, auctioneer. born Cambridge
Amy M
Annie L
Frank E, 5 mos, born Cambridge
Mary A Shelford, 31, servant, cook, born Essex
Catherine A Pett, 24, housemaid, born Cambridge
Celia A Richmond, 22, nursemaid, born Wilbraham
1891
Henry J Whitehead, 62, solicitor borough treasurer, born Lancs
Mary J, daughter, 36, born Cambridge
Amy M, 28, born Cambridge
Annie L, 27, born Cambridge
Eirene M, 7, born Cambridge
Annie Hart, 21, cook, born Chatteris
Harriet E Golding, 19, nurse, born Wolverhampton
Esther Fincham, 23, housemaid, born Linton
1901
Samuel Pope, 55, retired china merchant, born Cambridge
Alice, 43, born Cambridge
Olive V, 3, born Newmarket
Harriet Juniper, daughter, 19, born Newmarket
John Juniper, son in law, 30, railway servant fitter, born St Albans
Esther Webb, 15, servant, born Dullingham
1911
Horace Groom, 54, journalist ‘The Field’ newspaper, born Norfolk
Gertrude, 52, born Yorkshire
Clement, 30, born Norfolk
Barbara, 28, born Norfolk
Lucy Beales, cook, 22, born Norfolk
Annie Biggs, 20, housemaid, born Babraham
1913
Thomas Frohock
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1939
Thomas F Gaskell, b 1916, geophysicist
Thomas Gaskill, geophysicist
Tom Gaskell was a friend of Peter Danckwerts with whom he served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during WWII. In 1950 he travelled for two and half years around the world on HMS Challenger making seismic measurements of the ocean floor.