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19 Brookside main entrance

18/19 Brookside, 18/19 Trumpington Road

History of 18/19 Brookside

1871

(18)

Edward Henry Palmer, unmarried, fellow of St Johns, b Cambridge

Winifred Lynch Ingram, servant, 33, housemaid, b Ireland

Frederick Starling, servant, 16, page, b Teversham

In 1871 Edward Palmer and Laura Davis were married. By the end of 1871 Edward had been appointed professor of Arabic at Cambridge University. Laura died in 1878 and Edward remarried. In 1882 he was sent by the government to the Middle East and while in Egypt he and his companions were ambushed and murdered.

(19)

Harriet Pretyman, 58, annuitant, b Leics

Kates Pakes, 24, ladies maid, b Wales

Lydia Pink, 23, cook, b Hauxton

Mariane Mole, 19, housemaid, b Cambridge

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1874-1884

Henry Fawcett died here on 6th November and was buried in Trumpington.

His wife was Millicent Garrett Fawcett, a prominent politician.

[They were not resident here at the time of the 1881 census.]

Henry Fawcett stands for Parliament in Cambridge Borough. 1863.

Cambridge Suffragists and Votes for Women

The funeral of Prof Henry Fawcett at Trumpington, Cambridge, 1884.

 

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1901

18 Brookside:

Walter H Francis, 43, solicitor, b Cambridge

Agnes P, 31, b Scotland

Janette P, 1, b Cambridge

Walter M, 1,  b Cambridge

Catherine A Ferguson, 27, parlour maid,  b Scotland

Julia Haylewood, 28, nurse, b Soham

Maria E Gooby, 16, housemaid, b Cambridge

19 Brookside:

Henry Sanders, widower, 59, farmer, b Hunts

Emily R, 25, b Cambridge

Lean M Benstead, 21, servant, b Waterbeach

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1911

(18) not listed

(19) Miss A Hawkes – absent

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1913

(18) Rev Edward Gordon Selwyn, Fellow of Corpus Christi College 

[In 1911 Edward Selwyn was living at 20 Bateman Street]

(19) Henry John Horstman Fenton, University Demonstrator of Chemistry

For a biography follow this link;

http://tchie.uni.opole.pl/freeCDEM/CDEM09/Barbusinski_CDEM09(1-2).pdf

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2018

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