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19 Gwydir Street wedding 1931

19 Gwydir Street

History of 19 Gwydir Street

1868:

CIP 5/12/1868:

FATAL ELECTION DISTURBANCE AT CAMBRIDGE

George Clarke was charged with manslaughter.


1881:

George Clarke, head, 33, boot clicker

Mary Ann, wife, 26, b Leicester

Minnie F, daughter, 4, b Cambridge

George A, son, 2, b Cambridge

Mary L, daughter, 4 mos, b Cambridge

Swiathy Pateman, lodger, 21, bricklayer, b Bassingbourn


1891:

George Clarke, header, 43, boot and shoe clicker, b Warwicks.

Mary Ann, wife, 36, b Leicester

George A, son, 12, scholar, born Cambridge

Louisa May, daughter, 10, scholar, born Cambridge

Lillian M, daughter, 8, scholar, born Cambridge

John E, son, 6, scholar, born Cambridge

Arthur W, son, 4, scholar, born Cambridge

Harry C, son, 2, born Cambridge

Frank P M, son, 11 mos, born Cambridge


1901:

Mary A Clarke, widow, 46, monthly nurse, born Leicester

Lilian M, 18, born Cambridge

Arthur, 14, grocer’s tea packer, born Cambridge

Harry, 12, born Cambridge

Frank, 10, born Cambridge

Grace, 6, born Cambridge


1904:

Elizabeth Clarke


1911:

Lilian, 28, engine driver GER, born Cambridge

Harry, 22, carpenter and joiner,  born Cambridge

Frank, 20, butcher, born Cambridge

Grace, 16, dressmaker,  born Cambridge


1913:

Mrs Mary Ann Clarke


1915: CIP 7.5.1915: Sergt Harry Clark: wrote to his mother saying that he had been wounded (22.4.1915) and the little finger of his left hand smashed. He is now in hospital.


1916: Company Sergeant Major Harry Charles Clarke of B Coy Cambridgeshire Regiment was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his actions at the Schwaben Redoubt on 14/10/1916.


1931: Kite Marks project:

The first pinpoint relates to 19 Gwydir Street which already contains information at Capturing Cambridge about the occupants at the time of the 1901 and 1911 Censuses. Two of them, my grandmother Grace Clark (nee Clarke) and my great grandmother Mary Clarke are featured in the attached photograph taken in the back garden of 19 Gwydir Street on Saturday 4th April 1931 (an Easter wedding) on the occasion of my grandmother’s marriage to my grandfather, Tom Clark. Mary Clarke is dressed in black to my grandmother’s left.


1962:

Miss L Clarke


1970:

Philip Lawrence

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