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120 High Street, CottenhamProbably late C17.
A group of fifty dissenting families, ‘The Church Congregation Society of the Protestant Dissenters of the Denomination of Independence’, worshipped in a barn behind this farmhouse. A chapel was then built in 1781 on the same site as the modern Baptist Chapel. The first minister, Thomas Baron, was a Baptist, so the Society became part of the Baptist movement.
Pond Farm was also used for meetings of the Ranters, or Primitive Methodists, before their own chapel was built at 138 High Street, c.1860. (see Cottenham in Focus, 2002)
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1851:
Ann Norman, widow, 76, farm of 30 acres, b Cottenham
John, grandson, 23, farmers bailiff, b Cottenham
Eliza, grandson’s wife, 24, b Cottenham
Sophia, great granddaughter, 6 mos, b Cottenham
William Parnwell, 19, ag.lab., b Elsworth
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1861:
John Norman, 33, widower, farmer of 35 acres employing 1 labourer
Sophia, 10
Elizabeth Moore, 42, servant
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1871:
John Norman, 41, farmer 55 acres employing 1 man, b Cottenham
Sophia
Elizabeth Norman, 52, dairymaid, b Histon
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1881:
John Norman, farmer of 60 acres employing men and 1 boy
Sophia, daughter
Elizabeth Moore, dairy maid
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1891:
John Norman, widower, farmer
Elizabeth Moore, 76, servant, b Histon
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1901:
John Norman, widower, 73, farmer, b Cottenham
Sophia Papworth, daughter, 50, housekeeper
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1911:
Sophie Papworth, 61, farmer, b Cottenham
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1939: (66)
Frank M Harris, b 1894, grocers assistant
Lilian M, b 1900
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Modern (120)
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