Hugh Aubrey Cockerton

5 Gothic Street, Cambridge

5 Gothic Street

1841 nothing recorded

1851

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1861

Hannah Wooler, 27, formerly schoolmistress, b Surrey

Thomas Wooten Wooler, 5 months, b Cambridge

NB later in 1861 Hannah married Thomas Wooten, presumably Thomas’ father

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1871

William Henry Hunt, 36, solicitors clerk general, b Cambridge

Georgina, 30, solicitors clerks wife, b Norfolk

Henry James, 5, scholar, b Cambridge

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1881

William H Hunt, 46, solicitors clerk, b Cambridge

Georgina, 40, b Norfolk

Henry J, 15, domestic servant, b Cambridge

Florence, 7, scholar, b Cambridge

George Holmes, 18, boarder, domestic servant, b Bury St Edmunds

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1891 unoccupied

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1901

Harry Thorogood, 37, cab driver, b Essex

Gillah, wife, 50, college bedmaker, b Suffolk

Harry, 17, butcher,  b Essex

Lillie, 21, b Essex

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1911

Florence Cockerton, 48, private means, b Cambridge

Richard Cockerton, 15, apprentice outfitter, b Surrey

Hugh Aubrey Cockerton, 11, b Surrey

Hugh Aubrey Cockerton joined the Cambridgeshire Regiment. He died of wounds suffered in October 1916 at the Battle of the Somme.

Hugh Aubrey Cockerton: Private 2991, 1/1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Died of wounds 2nd October 1916. Aged 17. Enlisted Cambridge. Son of the late John and Florence Holly Cockerton [5 Gothic Street]  Buried in Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No.1, Plot IV. Row F. Grave 15. See also Cambridge Guildhall and Cambridge St Mary the Less (St Paul’s Roll of Honour)

See Mill Road Cemetery entry

Phyllis Cockerton, 9, b Surrey

Florence Cockerton (née Robinson) (1863-1917) had been married to John R R Cockerton, a butcher. The couple had married in Cambridge but then lived in Norwood, Surrey. After John’s death in 1906 Florence and her children moved back to Cambridge.

See Mill Road Cemetery entry

[Another son, John Richard William Cockerton (1891-1914) also died in World War One. He had joined the Bedfordshire Regiment before the war. He was killed in action in France on 9th November 1914.]

See Mill Road Cemetery entry

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1913

Mrs F Cockerton

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1939

Alexander Hannah, b 1895, newsvendor

Harriet Crook, b 1915, housekeeper

Margaret Crook (Hattley), b 1925, seeking employment