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1 Staffordshire Street, Victoria Lodging House, (2 (1) New Street), Cambridge

History of 1 Staffordshire Street

1881 1 New Street, Lodging House


1891 2 New Street, Lodging House


1911

Robert Innie McMurray, 64, lodging house keeper, b Belfast
Ann Louisa McMurray, 63, assisting in business, b Birmingham
Arthur Clark, deputy, 21, single, hotel labourer, b London

Under are names of Lodgers in Common Lodging House:

Frederick Thomas,26, carpenter, b Oxford
Henry Munt, 27, labourer, b Hants
William Goodyear, 50, gardener, b Hants
Amas Keep, 56, baker, b Beds
Henry Wilson, 25, general labourer, b Sheffield
William Budley, 61, general labourer, b London
Reginald Dobson, 25, tailor, b Manchester
John Humber, 60, general labourer, b Dorchester
John Bain, 49, stone mason, b Peterborough
George Tinsley, 56, iron moulder, b Warwicks
Charles Taylor, 32, general labourer, b Colchester
Alexander Rennie, 25, baker, b Scotland
William Smith, 22, electric labourer, b Leeds
Benjamin Thomas, 29, showman, b London
Harry Alderton, 42, army pensioner labourer, b Cambridge
John Tweed, 61, shoemaker, b Essex
Thomas Brown, 35, carpenter, b Norwich
Joseph Cockburn, 67, coach builder, b Edinburgh
Percy Ethridge, 25, fruiterer, b Cambridge
Moses Hows, 71, old age pensioner, b Hauxton
Walter Kefford, 43, general labourer, b Trumpington
John Boston, 56, cooper, b South Shields
Harry Gray, 54, 54, labourer, b Cambridge
Horace Alderton, 26, cab driver, b Cambridge
William Lee, 64, porter, b Cambridge
Fred Bowron, 29, labourer Stockton on Tees
Edwin Simmonds, 46, hawker, b Cambridge
George Hills, 34, labourer, b Cambridge
William Simmonds, 60, labourer, b Newmarket
John Foredam, 37, labourer, b Newmarket


1913 Victoria Lodging House

Robert Macmurray, manager

 

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