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(4 Dorset Terrace)
Mary Jane Clarke, wife, 32, wife of the travelling secretary for the Additional Curate’s Society, b Worcs
Lucy, 9, b Staffs
George Herbert, 7, b Staffs
Fredrick V Philpott, brother in law, 18, b Worcs
Octavius, brother in law, 17, b Worcs
Archibald S Hawthorne, boarder, 16, b Staffs
Sarah A Allen, 28, servant, b Worcs, cook
Emma Mortlock, servant, 20, b Suffolk, housemaid
(4 Dorset Terrace)
William L Mollison, 29, fellow of college Master of Arts Cambridge and Aberdeen Professor, b Scotland
Ellen, 34, b Norfolk
William Mayhew, 2, b Cambridge
Margaret, sister, 15, b Scotland
Margaret, daughter, 9m, b Cambridge
Susanah Oldfield, servant, 19, housemaid, b Norfolk
Eliza Pake, 23, cook, b Suffolk
Hannah Egling, 22, nurse, b Norfolk
(William Mollison, a prominent mathematician, became Master of Clare College in 1915)
[Family moved in 1883 to Pendeen House, 5 Hills Road, and then in 1890 to 5 Cranmer Road]
(4 Dorset Terrace)
Alysius J D Bradley, 47, Roman Catholic Priest, b Liverpool
Frederick West, 29, butler, b Beds
Mary Pearson, 63, servant, b Preston
Mary Ann Pearson, servant, b Preston
Alfred Grist, 63, tailor and outfitter maker, born Wilts.
Lucinda Jane, 54, born Hunts.
Irene Kathleen, 24, governess, b Hunts.
Donald Honey, 20, agricultural analyst, b Hunts.
Murgasu Valu Pillai, boarder, 22, married, law student, Singapore
Ida Eletha Pillai, boarder, 22, married, b Trinidad
Lily Ruth Mabel Stewart, student, 22, b Trinidad
Nina Irene Pillai, boarder, 10 mths, b Cambridge
Mary Tinkler, 19, servant, b Yorks.
The Granta Home for Nurses
Miss Danby, lady superintendent
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