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5 West Road (New Road), West House / West House Hotel
History of 5 West Road
1871 New Road
Jabez Jay Chater, 36, nurseryman seedsman, florist, fruiterer and gardener, b Essex
[Jabez had purchased the Gonville Nursery in West Road in 1862. He died suddenly in his sleep 19th March 1873]
Harriett, 31, b London
Arthur Brand, 9, b Essex
Alice Harriett, 7, b Cambridge
Mary Eveline, 5, b Cambridge
Alexander, 3, b Cambridge
Emma Ann Duce, servant, 16, b Grantchester
The Gonville Nursery was bought by the firm of Lyles and Speed who had a shop at 15 Petty Cury. A few years later, re-named the Newnham Nursery, it was acquired, with the Petty Cury shop, by James Sanders under whose name the seedsman’s business continued into the 20th century.
1881 West Road
Charles Clay
1891
Clay
West Road OS map 1903
1901 West House
Clay
1911
Mary Clay
1913 West House
Miss Clay
1939
Alice Clay, b 1859, private means
Edith Farrington, b 1898, cook
Elizabeth Glover, b 1895, parlourmaid
Mabel Cox, b 1895, housemaid
1962
West House Hotel, Owen Tudor proprietor
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