73 Russell Street

History of 73 Russell Street

1851 Russell Street unnumbered

William Pile, 66, plasterer, b Norfolk

Jemima [née Brewer b 1799 Cambridge], 52, b Cambridge

Robert, 21, plasterer,  b London

William, 19, gardener, b Cambridge

Martha, 15, b Cambridge

James, 12, b Cambridge

Lydia Bavay, visitor, 40, dressmaker, b Bourne

Adelaide Bavay, visitor, 11, b Cambridge

Alfred Bavay, visitor, 9, b Cambridge

According to CT 2024 William Pile (1785-1863) was the journeyman plasterer who worked on the Fitzwilliam Museum. He died at Russell Street 28.6.1863 and the burial service took place at St Paul’s. He had moved circa 1838 to cambridge having married in London in 1827.

Lower Gallery where William Pyle worked as a plasterer in the 1840s

Jemima was the daughter of John Brewer (1773-1830) and Martha Gregory (1781-1866). Martha was the daughter of William Gregory, keeper of Cambridge Castle gaol.

Christopher Tongue notes in his family history: The Pyle family originated from Norfolk around Sheringham and the coast, but a younger son William Pyle had settled in Cambridge by 1840, as a plasterer working on the Fitzwilliam Museum. 

1861

William Pile, 76, plasterer, b Norfolk

Jemima, 62, 62, b Cambridge

James, 22, bricklayer’s labourer, b Cambridge

Thomas Tempford, boarder, 23, smith’s labourer, b Herts

In 1881 James is living at 65 Russell Street

1901

Caroline A Parr, laundress

Charles Frisky, lodger, 64, painter & grainer,  b Cambridge

1911

Caroline Parr, 79, no occupation, b Pampisford

Emily, 43, dressmaker, b Cambridge

1913

Mrs Caroline Parr, laundress

1962

Frederick J Clarke