Walter Craske, muffin seller (MoC170/82)

Doric Street, Cambridge

History of Doric Street

For notes on the early development of this area see New Town.

It was Thomas Musgrave who built  Downing Terrace, facing Lensfield Road in 1819. He had acquired land when the area known as New Town was sold off to a variety of developers circa 1807. Behind it, off Saxon Street, Musgrave also built a series of squalid streets of back to back houses, Gothic Street, Doric Street and Terrace Lane. These were removed as slum clearance in the mid 20th century. (Source: Cambridge City Council 2012 – New Town and Glisson Road Area Conservation Appraisal)

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See Cambridge Archives Mapping relief project:

Doric Street – Mapping relief

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On this 1925 map of Cambridge Doric Street would have been the narrow alley to the east of Gothic Street running south from Saxon Street. Terrace Lane would have been the alley to the east of that.

Robert W. Stevenson, born 1916, son of Robert Stevenson of no. 13, later of 115 Mowbray Road, wrote a poem when he was stationed in Ireland with the RAMC in 1943, called CHILDHOOD, In Doric Street – 1920’s.

The poem depicts a wide range of people, some of whom lived in the street such as Mrs Elgar [no.19] and her much prized ferns,  old Mrs Barker [no.4], and others who visited or had shops nearby.

1851

Doric Street 1851

NB no house numbers are given for this census.  20 households are identified – the same number as in 1861, though one house was unoccupied then.  In 1841 19 houses were identified, though fewer households

Where a household can be found living in the same street in other censuses this is noted.

William Clark, 34, labourer, b Cape of Good Hope

Louisa, 30, b Granchester

Emma, 10, scholar, b Granchester

George, 8, scholar, b Cambridge

Matilda, 4, scholar, b Cambridge

Charles W, 2, scholar, b Cambridge

NB in 1861 this family was at 1 Doric Street

 

John Pink, 49, shoemaker, b Hauxton

Martha, 55, b Trumpington

Emma, 25, dressmaker, b Cambridge

Edward, 22, compositor, b Cambridge

Harriett, 20, dressmaker, b Cambridge

John, 17, shoemakers apprentice, b Cambridge

NB in 1841 this family was at 2 Doric Street; in 1861 John and Martha were at 4 Doric Street; in 1871, 1881 and 1891 John was still at 4 Doric Street, with a new wife and family (Martha probably died 1863)

 

James Carter, 37, miller, b Meldreth

Martha, 37, b Meldreth

Elizabeth, 14, b Meldreth

James, 12, b Cambridge

Ann, 8, b Cambridge

George, 6, b Cambridge

John, 4, b Cambridge

Charles, 1, b Cambridge

NB in 1861 Martha, now widowed, was at 3 Doric Street with her children

 

John Rickett, 60, stonemason, b Lincolnshire

Ann, 60, b Lincolnshire

George, 20, stonemason, b Cambridge

Edward, 14, shoemakers apprentice, b Cambridge

NB in 1841 this family was at 9 Doric Street

 

Thomas Howe, 50, shoemaker, b Sawston

Harriett, 43, b Cambridge

William, 19, apprentice, b Cambridge

James, 17, tailor, b Cambridge

John, 12, scholar, b Cambridge

Henry, 9, scholar, b Cambridge

Joseph, 6, scholar, b Cambridge

Harriett, 1, b Cambridge

NB in 1841 and 1861 this family was at 7 Doric Street

 

Elijah Bowen, 34, woodturner, b Soham

Mary, 33, b Cambridge

George, 15, b Cambridge

Elijah, 11, b Cambridge

Rebecca, 10, b Cambridge

Cealyer, 2, b Cambridge (NB birth record suggests should be Celia)

William, 6 months, b Cambridge

 

William S Tavener, 27, carpenter, b Lincolnshire

Martha, 29, b Huntingdonshire

John, 3, b Lincolnshire,

Ann, 7 months, b Cambridge

 

Mary Perkins, 60, widow, painters widow, b Cambridge

Henry, 24, painter and glazier, b Cambridge

Thomas, 12, grandson, b Cambridge

 

James Clark, 29, painter, b Cambridge

Maryann, 31, b Cambridge

James, 4, Cambridge

Elizabeth, 2, b Cambridge

Emma, 7 months, b Cambridge

 

Frederick Matthews, 37, tailor, b London

Maria, 33, b London

Agusta, 6, b London

Caroline, 4, b London

Maryann, 2, b Cambridge

 

John P Whitehead, 33, painter, b Cambridge

Emma, 29, b Cambridge

Maryann, 9, b Cambridge

Emma, 7, b Cambridge

John, 5, b Cambridge

James, 3, b Cambridge

NB in 1861 and 1871this family was at 12 Doric Street

 

Joseph Maltby, 50, shoemaker, b Cambridge

Elizabeth, 52, b Fulbourn

Joseph, 17, b Cambridge

Samuel, 14, b Cambridge

Jane, 12, b Cambridge

Betsy, 9, b Cambridge

NB in 1841 this family was at 11 Doric Street; in 1861 Joseph jnr, now married was at 9 Doric Street

 

Charles Bell, 36, labourer, b Cambridge

Ann, 47, b Cambridge

Charles, 19, cabinetmaker, b Cambridge

 

William Robinson, 20, carpenter, b Great Shelford

Jane, 31, laundress, b Cambridge

Ebenezer, 1, b Cambridge

William, 4 months, b Cambridge

William Mansfield, 11, b Cambridge

Thomas Mansfield, 9, b Cambridge

NB these 2 are described as ‘son-in-law’ but are more likely stepsons

NB in 1861 Jane, now widowed, was at 15 Doric Street with children from 2 marriages; in 1871 she was at 13 Doric Street

 

Mary Harrison, 74, widow, b Dry Drayton

Hannah, 39, nurse, b Cambridge

NB in 1841 this family was at 16 Doric Street

 

George Gales, 49, gasfitter, b Cambridge

Mary, 51, b Histon

Betsy, 21, b Cambridge

 

Joseph Clark, 65, labourer, b Essex

Sarah, 58, b Essex

Joseph, 23, labourer, b Essex

Maryann, 20, b Essex

George, 17, labourer, b Essex

NB in 1861 this family was at 14 Doric Street

 

Thomas Baker, 35, widower, labourer, b Foxton

Samuel, 13, errand boy, b Cambridge

William, 11, scholar, b Cambridge

Hannah, 7, scholar, b Cambridge

Benjamin, 3, scholar, b Cambridge

Susan Simons, 30, housekeeper, b Dry Drayton

 

John Wilson, 29, labourer, b Trumpington

Emma, 26, b Cambridge

Elizabeth, 11 months, b Cambridge

Ann E Ensby, 23, sister, b Melbourn

Ann Ensby, 22, sister, b Melbourn

Susan Ensby, 13, b Harston

NB probably wife’s sisters, unclear if the second Ann is an error

 

Charles Fuller, 35, carpenter, b Cambridge

Mary, 40, b Cambridge

Henry, 13, Cambridge

Ann, 11, b Cambridge

Emma, 8, b Cambridge

Charles, 4, b Cambridge

Eliza, 1, b Cambridge

NB in 1841 this family was at 18 Doric Street, with Charles’ mother