(110) High Street, Morton’s Alms Houses, Cottenham

History Morton's Charity House

1671 John Moreton set up a charity with 4 trustees from London and 4 from Cottenham, to distribute the income from Liquor Pond field, near Gray’s Inn Lane, Holborn. The Trustees placed poor Cottenham children as apprentices. (See Cottenham in Focus, 2002)

1816 Moreton’s Charity built the Church End Almshouses. Lived in by elderly men and women, most of whom were in receipt of parish relief.

1881 Morton’s Charity House

1. Eliza Bruff, 65, b Histon
2. Crisiana Peacock, 58, b Histon
3. Betsy Burkett, 53, b Cottenham; Eliza Cornell, 13, servant, b Cottenham
4. Jonas Gautrey, 63, labourer, b Cottenham; Ann, 64, b Histon; William, brother, 78, shepherd, b Cottenham
5. Elizabeth Graves, 82, b Cottenham; Ellen Coteman, lodger, 72, b Cottenham
6. Aaron Skinner, 77, labourer, b Longstanton; Jemima, 71, b Whittlesey
7. Elizabeth Smith, 89, b Whittlesey; Mary Cooper, lodger, 73, b Cottenham
8. James Lawrence, 72, labourer, b Cottenham; Rebecca, 72, b Cottenham
9. William Sanderson, 76, b London; Mary, 78, b Landbeach

1891 Alms Houses

Eliza Fowler, widow, 72, b Cottenham

Annie Pearson, boarder, 63, b Cottenham

Eliza Bruff, 72, b Histon

Cristina Peacock, 69, b Impington

John Emerson, 76, 76, former labourer, b Cottenham

Eliza, 70, b Cottenham

Mary Badcock, 83, b Cottenham

Sarah Norman, 76, b Cottenham

Phebe Saintey, 80, b Cottenham

Elizabeth Young, boarder, 65, b Cottenham

John Few, 72, former labourer, b Cottenham

Eliza, 48, b Cottenham

Fred, 10, b Cottenham

Stephen Sanderson, 70, b Cottenham