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126 Gwydir Street
History of 126 Gwydir Street
1881
George King, head, 61, blacksmith, b Suffolk
Susannah, wife, 56, b Suffolk
Samuel, son, 23, tinman, b Suffolk
Richard, son, 19, whitesmith, b Suffolk
Charles, son, 17, shoemaker, b Suffolk
Joseph Edward, lodger, 27, carter, b Chesterton
Ellen Edward, wife, lodger, 24, b Suffolk
1891
John Marsh, head, 65, painter, b Cambridge
Elizabeth, wife, 58, b Linton
Henry Brown, lodger, 23, printer compositor, b Norwich
Robert Morrison, lodger, 24, electrical engineer, b Scotland
Henry Pilkinton, lodger, 24, electrical engineer, b Kent
1901
Frederick Hayden, 30, printers machine minder, b Thriplow
Emma, 27, b Cambridge
Mary S Bennett, visitor, 41, b Norfolk
1911
Frederick C Smith, 53, laboratory assistant college chemical lab, b Cambridge
Alice Marid [sic] Smith, 49
George Stoke Smith, 17, college servant, b Cambridge
Elizabeth Petit Smith, 18, servant, b Cambridge
1913
Frederick C Smith, college servant
1914 CIP 27.11.1914: Alleged False Pretences: Young Woman’s Visit to Messrs Eaden Lilley’s: A remarkable case of alleged false pretences was opened at the Cambridge Borough Court Wednesday morning, before the Mayor (Mr W. L. Baynes), in the chair, Mr. H. M. Taylor, Mr. J. Taylor, and Mr. W. P. Spalding. Elizabeth Pettitt Smith (22) of 126, Gwydir street, a single woman, of no occupation, was charged with obtaining goods of the value of £3 0s. 5 1/2d., by false pretences, from Messrs. W. Eaden Lilley and Co., Ltd. It was stated in the charge that goods to the value of £1 15s. 5d. were obtained on the 7th of November, and goods worth £1 5s. the 16th of November.
Mr. Oliver Papworth appeared to prosecute for Messrs. W. Eaden Lilley and Co.
Det.-Sergt. Lazarus Marsh said that on the 16th of this month received a report from one of the firm concerned, and he was handed two lists of goods obtained from the shop on the 7th and 16th of November. He also got a description of the person who had obtained them. He made inquiries, and the previous evening, with one of the assistants of the shop, he went to Gwydir-street, and at a house there saw a little girl. Then he went to the house 126, in the same street, where the prisoner resided. He saw her and asked her whether she was at Messrs. Lilley’s shop on tho 16th. She said “I don’t know,”, and then she said “I will ask mother.” They then went into the front room, and he told her she was suspected with regard to the goods on the 16th. These were two pairs of pants, two vests, two hose, and one jersey. He asked her where the things were, and she said “I throwed them away.’ Witness asked where, and she said ‘‘l don’t know exactly.” Witness said she would never do so, but she adhered to her statement, and then witness referred to the goods on the 7th, with regard to which said he suspected her. She said “throwed” them away.
Witness then produced and read his warrant, and she then told him she had sent the pants, the vests and one pair of socks to Felixstowe. A number the others obtained on the 7th she had sent to a place in Bury St. Edmunds. She gave the address. Then she told her mother get the rest of the goods from upstairs in the house from places she indicated. There were a silk scarf, gloves which she said she had been wearing, two pairs of stockings, and another pair she said she had washed, and a piece of blue serge (five yards), which she admitted she had got from the same shop, which was not the charge at present. Witness told her she had obtained the goods for a Mrs. Miller, of Thursley, Chaucer-rood, which lady did not exist, and she said “Yes.” He told her she gave the name of Burton in one case and Gray in the next.
On this evidence a remand was granted until Tuesday next, hail being allowed.
CIP 4.12.1914: Elizabeth Pettitt Smith was found guilty and bound over for 12 months, herself and her father in sureties of £5 each.
1939
Horace Hancock, railway ticket collector, b 1878
1962 –
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