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Rev Conybeare, far left, and friends in the garden of Stokeslea (MoC377/75)10 Union Road, Stokeslea, Lensfield Cottage
History of 10 Union Road
1841 (10)
Ebenezer Foster, 30, solicitor
Fregonwill Collier, 25, servant
Jonah Smith, 30, servant
Eliza Denson, 15, servant
1851
Thomas Moris, 32, grocer and draper, b Gt Shelford
Mary, 30, b Essex
Dudley Cooke (female), visitor, b 24, dressmaker, b Essex
1861 Hardware shop
Charles Winterton, 22, hardwareman, b Leics
Sarah Louisa, 22, b Cambridge
Charles George, 11 mos, b Cambridge
Sarah Ann Casbolt, servant, 19, b Cambridge
1898 J W E Conybeare moves to Stokeslea (former Lensfield Cottage). The house had access from Union Road with large gardens extending to Lensfield Road and adjoining the rectory garden of the new catholic church which stood at Hyde Park Corner.
For more biographical information see: https://www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/2021/04/cambridge-cycling-pioneers/
1901
John William Edward Conybeare, clergyman Church of England [Conybeare was an Anglican minister who converted to Catholicism and became a leading member of that congregation. In the 1891 census he is Vicar of Barrington living in the vicarage on Foxton Road.]
Frances Ann
Alison Mary, 22, b Barrington
Dorothy Frances
Marianne Glasscock, parlourmaid
Lydia Challis, cook
Ethel Sutton, 17, housemaid, b Barrington
(10a) William J Fordham, 38, toy and confectionary shopkeeper, b Cambridge
Lillian, 26,
Charles, 21, grocers porter, b Cambridge
Sidney Cole, boarder, 26, dairyman’s porter, b Staffs
Arthur Turner, boarder, 21, travelling drapers porter, b Hants
1911
John William Edward Conybeare, 67, author, b Lancs [Vicar of Barrington who wrote A History of Cambridgeshire that was published in 1897]
Frances Anne, 63, private means, b Westmoreland
Dorothea Frances, 30, private means, b Barrington
Marianne Glascock, 58, parlour maid, b Cambridge
Lydia Challis, 60, cook, b Barrington
Margaret Jane Skinner, 21, housemaid, b Wimpole
(10a) Lillian Fordham, 36, widow, shopkeeper sweets toys papers, b Cambridge
1913
Rev John William Edward Conybeare
(10a) Henry Charles Norris, confectioner and toy dealer
1939
Lilian V Shuckburgh, b 1883
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Ethel A Freestone, b 1913, cook
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Doris J Archer, b 1927
Joy J King, b 1931
(10a) General Stores
Alice Sadler, b 1871, shopkeeper
Mary Sadler, b 1872, shop keeper
1962 –
Edward Conybeare not only supported Canon Scott in his ministry of the Cambridge Catholic Mission during WWI, but his diaries are an important record f the period in Cambridge. ‘Catholics in Cambridge’ ed Nicholas Rogers, has many excerpts from these diaries. Many soldiers were Catholics, especially those of the Leinster Regiment; on 23rd August 1914 the church had 5 successive masses for over 3,000 soldiers.
1914 August 12th – Our house [Stokeslea] made Red Cross distribution centre so drawing room piled with shirting.
For 19th December 1914 the diary entry records ‘Billeting begun for 17000 troops – first in Cambridge since Civil War.’ The church was set up with recreation rooms for soldiers. Conybeare also seems to have set up pre-arranged bath facilities at his own house, Stokeslea.
For much more detail on Edward Conybeare see ‘Catholics in Cambridge’ ed. Nicholas Rogers chapter 12.
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