Terrace Lane, Cambridge

History of Terrace Lane

For notes on the early development of this area see New Town.

1851

NB no house numbers are given for this census, and only 16 households can be identified, although house numbers up to 19 are found on 1841 and 1861 and later censuses.

Where a household can be found living in the same street in other censuses this is noted.

Thomas Hills, 34, ostler, b Royston

Mary, 29, b Hertfordshire

James, 2, scholar, b Cambridge

Mary, 11 months, b Cambridge

Jessy Thornhill, 55, widow, dressmaker, b Cambridge

Jessy, 25, b Cambridge

James, 21, apprentice carpenter, b Cambridge

Elizabeth, 19, b Cambridge

Susan, 16, b Cambridge

NB members of this family were living at 2 Terrace Lane in 1841, 1871 and 1881

Charles Carter, 30, painter and glazier, b Landbeach

Eliza, 22, b Cambridge

James B, 7, scholar, b Cambridge

NB in 1861 and 1871 this family was at 9 Terrace Lane

Joseph Fuller, 51, widower, confectioner and fruiterer, b Cambridge

James Goffin, 12, servant, b Cambridge

John Sisk, 66, tallow chandler, b Suffolk

Alice, 59, b Cambridge

Harry, 25, clerk, b Cambridge

Robert Hunt, 65, carpenter and joiner, b Cambridge

Ann, 58, b Cambridge

John, 20, labourer, b Cambridge

NB in 1841 and 1861 members of this family were at 8 Terrace Lane

William Robinson, 35, sawyer, b Essex (NB listed as ‘married’ but no wife present)

Mary, 14, scholar, b Cambridge

Drusilla, 10, scholar, b Cambridge

Ann, 6, scholar, b Cambridge

Elizabeth, 2, b Cambridge

NB in 1841 this family were at 7 Terrace Lane

Robert Sparrow, 47, shoemaker, b Norfolk

Mary, 36, b Cambridge

Frederick, 9, b Cambridge

Jane Lupson, 22, sister, dressmaker, b Cambridge

John Hayward, 30, painter, b Essex

Mary, 28, b Essex

Susan, 10, b Bassingbourn

Hannah, 8, b Essex

John, 4, b Cambridge

Simeon, 2, b Cambridge

Maria, 1 month, b Cambridge

Thomas Elbourn, 47, labourer, b Little Shelford

Susan, 44, b Little Shelford

John, 20, labourer, b Little Shelford

William, 18, labourer, b Little Shelford

Thomas, 16, labourer, b Little Shelford

Catherine, 10, scholar, b Cambridge

Sarah, 5, b Cambridge

NB members of this family were at 12 Terrace Lane in 1841, and at 13 Terrace lane in 1861 and 1871

Richard Darnell, 29, labourer, b Caxton

Jane E, 27, b Cambridge

Harry, 6, b Cambridge

Richard W, 5, b Cambridge

Susan, 1, b Cambridge

Henry Skinner, 64, father-in-law, labourer, b Cambridge

Susan Skinner, 52, mother-in-law, b Great Chesterford

Susan, 17, sister-in-law, servant, b Cambridge

Emily, 10, sister-in-law, scholar, b Cambridge

James French, 24, farm labourer, b Cambridge

Mary, 20, b Northamptonshire

Catherine, 2 months, b Cambridge

Thomas K Gray, 33, baker, b Cambridge

Rebecca, 33, b Cambridge

Elizabeth, 8, scholar, b Cambridge

Samuel H, 7, scholar, b Cambridge

Harriett M, 5, b Cambridge

Mary Ann, 3, b Cambridge

Elizabeth Garabee, 78, widow, washerwoman, b Somersham

John, 34, brewers labourer, b Essex

Benjamin, 24, gardener, b Essex

George, 20, labourer, b Essex

William Carder, 30, lodger, labourer, b London

Mary Carter, 50, widow, college servant, b London

John B, 23, miller, b Cambridge

Phoebe, 21, b Cambridge

James, 16, errand boy, b Cambridge

Frederick, 12, scholar, b Cambridge

Susan Smith, 21, visitor, dressmaker, b Cambridge

William Wing, 50, gardener, b Mildenhall

Sarah, 40,, b Cambridge

Sarah A, 13, b Cambridge

Elizabeth S, 8, b Cambridge

Joseph J, 12, b Cambridge

Samuel, 10, b Cambride

Robert, 5, b Cambridge

David W, 4, b Cambridge

James, 1, b Cambridge

NB this family were at 19 Terrace Lane in 1841, 1861 and 1871

1861

NB no record of properties 1-7, a page may be missing as schedule numbers jump from 32 to 47

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1918:

Pte R Stubbings, reported to have died of wounds in Mesopotamia

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1944:

Jack Overhill recorded in his diary 1.1.1944:

There was a terrible row in the street last night after I got to bed: Jess was up. A Londoner living in Terrace Lane wanted to fight an American who had walked into his house and put £2 down on the table. The Londoner was half-drunk and with much profanity bawled out that his wife wasn’t a prostitute. At times he spoke in a pitiful maudlin manner to his pal Stan, telling him the tale how he thought the American was counting his money: ‘Jist picture it Stan, us there quietlike and in’e walks say’n he’d been told goo to number 9 (his address) …….

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