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21 Doric Street, Cambridge

History of 21 Doric Street

1861

David Chambers, 34, labourer, b Granchester

Sarah, 32, b Trumpington

Herbert, 10, b Granchester

Charles, 9, scholar, b Granchester

Martha, 5, scholar, b Cambridge


1871

William Brookes, 24, bricklayers labourer, b Cambridge St Andrew the Less

Isobel, 20, b Cambridge St Andrew the Less

Sarah, 1 month, b Cambridge St Andrew the Less

Alice Hayward, 2, visitor, b Cambridge St Andrew the Less


1881

Walter Craske, 53, labourer, b Cambridge

Elizabeth, 45, charwoman, b Trumpington

Alice, 3, b Cambridge

Albert J, 5 months, b Cambridge

Clara Best, 13, daughter, scholar, b Middlesex

Elizabeth Best, 11, daughter, b Middlesex

[This is very likely to have been the same person as the Walter Craske who is  depicted at the Museum of Cambridge. He was a street seller in late Victorian times who sold muffins. At some point he lived in George IV Street. In 1901 he was living at 39 Coronation Street]

A man with a moustache wears a dark coat and cap, holding a bell in one hand with a covered tray balanced on his head.

Walter Craske, muffin seller (MoC170/82)


1891

John Sizer, 44 gardener, b Histon

Harriett [née Jones], 44, b Cambridge

Ellen Jones, 13, daughter, scholar, b Cambridge

Jessie Jones, 7 daughter, scholar, b Cambridge

Harry Jones, 5, son, scholar, b Cambridge

In 1881 Harriett Jones and her children are living at 18 Northampton Street


1901

John E Rayner, widower, 71, unable to work, b Trumpington


1911

William Unwin, 35, under groundsman cricket ground, born Cambridge

Rachel, 31, born Norwich

William George, 12, born Cambridge

Violet Louisa, 9, born Cambridge

Nora Alice, 7, born Cambridge

Lenord [sic] Arthur, 6, born Cambridge

Mary Peggy, 3, born Cambridge

Emma Daisy, 1, born Cambridge


1913

William Unwin, gardener


1939

Alexander f Germany, b 1881, caddie Gog Magog Golf Club

 

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