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19 Brookside main entrance

18/19 Brookside, 18/19 Trumpington Road

History of 18/19 Brookside

1871:

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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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