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10 Upper Gwydir Street

History of 10 Upper Gwydir Street

1891

Cleer [Clare William] Cook, head, 38, coalyard labourer, b Suffolk

Elizabeth, wife, 42, b Girton

Florrie, daughter, 16, domestic servant, b Cambridge

Fred, son, 15, b Cambridge

Phoebe, daughter, 12, domestic servant, b Cambridge

Dora, daughter, 10, scholar, b Cambridge

Mary, daughter, 5, scholar, b Cambridge

Gertrude, daughter, 3, scholar, b Cambridge

Annie Wilson, daughter, 17, domestic servant, b Girton

Stephen Wilson, son, 14, errand boy, b Girton

James Wilson, son, 14, errand boy, b Girton

[3 appear to be step children]

1895 CIP 25.1.1895: Clare William Cook, coal-dealer. Gwydir-street was summoned for causing a certain gelding to be illtreated, in Station-road, on the 7th of January.— Inspector Rodgers, of the R.S.P.C.A., said the animal, which was attached to a cart heavily laden with coal, and in charge of a lad, was in wretchedly emaciated condition practically nothing but skin and bone. It was lame on both fore limbs, being also diseased in one of the hind limbs It was very aged, and totally unfit for any kind of work.—P.c Gates corroborated.— Defendant said he always treated the animal very kindly while he had it.—He was fined 10s. and 8s. costs. 

1901

Cleer W Cook, 49, coal dealer, b Suffolk

Elizabeth, 52, b Girton

Frederick, 25, assistant to father, b Cambridge

Mary, 15, drapers assistant, b Cambridge

Gertrude, 12, b Cambridge

 

1911

William Cook, 58, widower, coal merchant, b Suffolk

 

1939

Arthur E Palmer, b 1876, widower, coal merchant

Stella R Palmer (Berge, Andrew), b 1934, under school age

4 closed records

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