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6 Hills Road (4)

History of 6 Hills Road

1861

(4)

David Ellis, widower, 75, retired farmer, b Thriplow

Mary A Pearce, niece, 41, housekeeper, b Barrington

Sarah Breet, servant, 19, b Orwell

1871

(4)

Anne E Greef, widow, house & fund & property,

Avie Marian, 38, b Cambridge

John Edlin, boarder, 61, retired architect, b London

Eliza Marshall, cook, 35, b Cambridge

Sophia Green, 29, housemaid, b Cambridge

1881

(4 Hills Road)

Ann E Greef, widow, 73, income from consols & ?, b Cambridge

Ann [Avie?] M, 49, income from consols & ?, b Cambridge

John Edlin, boarder, 71, retired architect, b London

Clara Peck, servant, 19, housemaid

Harriett Henshall, nurse, 37, b Cheshire

Sophia Green, 40, cook, b Cambridge

1891

George Wallis,

Anna Maria

Ada Wiles, 23, servant, b Cambs

Elizabeth Wilshire, 21, servant, b Herts

1901

George Wallis, 65, surgeon, b Cambridge

Ann M, 48, b Cherry Hinton

Emily A Moore, 22, housemaid,  b Cambridge

Alice A Brooks, 20, cook, b Cambridge

George Wallis had worked at St Bartholemew’s Hospital where he qualified MRCS in 1857. He came to Addenbrookes Cambridge as House Surgeon and Apothecary in 1859. He was elected opthalmic surgeon in 1879.

1911

Sidonie Louth trading as Madame Duhart, 43, dressmaker, b Poitiers France

1913

Madame Duhart

1939

Claude Ellis Tongue, b 1901, bank clerk foreign bankers and merchants

Constance Eva Tongue née Pyle, b 1898, dressmaker

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Mabel M Edgar, b 1902

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Irene L Hersee, b 1914, civil servant post office engineering, ARP service telephonist report centre

Claude and Constance had married in Cambridge in 1933. In 1935 they were living at 30 Lyndewode Road. In 1960 they were at 28 Bateman Street. Claude died in 1965.

In 1945 Eva wrote a letter on VE Day to her husband Claude:

My darling Cled [Claude], Our thoughts are with you today and wondering what you are going to do to celebrate. Cambridge has gone quite mad but we are just enjoying everything in perfect weather and not taking part much ourselves. We had dinner at Kings Parade with Mum and then sat at the windows to see the fun on the parade. There was a very impressive gathering on the Market Hill. The Mayor and all his satalites [sic]on the balcony and all the decorations were very colourful and the proclamation and hymn singing very impressive. I hope Christopher will remember it – he joined in the hymn singing of”Land of Hope and Glory.”

During the afternoon someone brought out a piano onto the pavement opposite and played it so well that couples were soon dancing on the Green of Kings College. There has been music all day from loud speakers all round the Market place, and couples dancing and playing the fool. We went to get a drink at the Lion, just to say that we’d had one, but it was a case of queuing for ages and wasn’t worth it. Did you have a good binge, I wonder. Really its marvellous to think that it is really peace in Europe. All day the Lancasters have been flying over bringing the released prisoners. It seems like a fairy tale. How wonderful it must seem to them after being in captivity for years to arrive home by plane on a beautiful day like this.

… We’ve been to see the most wonderful bonfire on the Common with searchlights lighting up the sky and forming a huge Union Jack over the fire. We took Christopher and I should think it is a sight he will long remember.I have never seen anything to equal it. Christopher and I are staying the night with Iris [friend of Eve] or she would be alone. Christopher has a nice little bedroom to himself and is very thrilled. 

It is midnight now darling, so I’ll say Goodnight and God bless and bring you home soon. Your loving wife Eva.

Eva’s mother lived in a house overlooking Kings College Chapel on Kings Parade. Claude did not return home until December 1945. Iris had to wait even longer for her husband to return home from Italy, where he was a prisoner.

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