390 Mill Road, Cambridge

History of 390 Mill Road

1901

Charles Stearn, 72, corporation labourer, b Barrington

Catherine, 60, b Ireland

Sarah, 35, laundress, b Canada

By the death of Charles Stearn of Brookfields Cambridge loses one of its few Crimean veterans. He was born at Barrington and joined the Cambridgeshire Regiment in 1846 with whom he fought at the Alma where at least 1,400 men lost their lives. At Inkerman the Russians came right up to the bayonets and the Russian dead numbered six to each Englishman. After a couple of years in the Crimea the Regiment was sent off to Canada where their boat struck a rock off Newfoundland and went down in half an hour. He had his wife and youngest son on board and got them into the lifeboats with difficulty. Later he was landlord of the Seven Stars on Newmarket Road CWN 10 03 04 (Mike Petty)

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1962

George Walker