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20 Brookside

20 Brookside

History of 20 Brookside

1901:

Marion McBryde Brown, 42, living on own means, b Scotland

Augusta Norton, visitor, 33, living on own means, b India

Tadvega Neuwald, visitor, 28, living on own means, b Russia

Anne McIntyre, visitor, 67, retired nurse, b Scotland

Agnes Gray, 47, cook, b Scotland

Beatrice Barrett, 17, housemaid, b Cambridge


1911:

Louis Allan Goss, 64, Educational Service of India Inspector Schools Burma, b Bristol

Marie Leonie, 60, b Bourbon Island French

Edouard H Allan, 33, assistant in timber firm Burma, b Burma

Marie L, 24, b Bristol

Edith R Green, 21, servant, b Newmarket

For more about L A Goss gifts to the University of Cambridge Library see: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-MAPS-MS-PLANS-R-C-00001/1

At the outbreak of WWI Edouard applied to join any Kentish military unit and was subsequently appointed 2nd Lieutenant aged 37, He was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. For further information see:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PYoFBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT52&lpg=PT52&dq=Louis+Allan+Goss+Burma&source=bl&ots=PaSe13pMRh&sig=o5sPdUuIRQYkHwv2tdPHHIouTf4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj9ltrPqcDfAhUJWxoKHRA7BkwQ6AEwDHoECAIQAQ#v=onepage&q=Louis%20Allan%20Goss%20Burma&f=false

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