Hemingford Abbots village map (RGL2025)

Hemingford Abbots – Data

History of Hemingford Abbots

Locating a number of 19th century pubs in Hemingford Abbots has proved difficult. One of these was the Fleur de Lys.

1851 (Fleur de Lis, High Street)

James Stocker, 41, publican, b Swavesey

Frances, 39, b Houghton

John, 17, ag lab, b Hemingford Grey

James, 15 ag lab, b Hemingford Grey,

Sarah Cole Stocker, 12, b Hemingford Grey

William, 5, b Hemingford Grey

Martha, 2, b Hemingford Abbots

Thomas, 1 m, b Hemingford Abbots

John Newman, lodger, 25, drover, b Great Staughton

In 1861 the Stocker family are still in Hemingford Abbots but James is now a farmer of 10 acres.

In 1871 James is a farmer with 12 acres; his wife Frances and son Joseph are living with him.

In 1881 Frances is a widow, 69, a dairy woman, living with her son Joseph, 25, farmer of 16 acres, daughter in law, Annie and two grandchildren, James and Martha.

In 1891 Frances is described as living on her own means, together with son Joseph and his family which now includes 5 grandchildren.

Frances Stocker, b 1812, is of  interest, because we have an account of an event in her her life: Grandma Goes To Town by Henry Garratt (2000). After her husband died, sometime after 1871, Frances went to London  to visit her son Thomas who lived in Putney. Her other son William was also living in London and had a small fleet of Hansom Cabs.