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25 High Street Cottenham1850:
see Francis Garrett, Cottenham Ablaze
31.8.1850: Cambridge Chronicle reported (7.9.1850): ‘Fire after fire succeeds and the inhabitants of Cottenham are kept in almost one continual state of alarm and excitement.’
On 31.8.1850 John Pierson, the Town Crier, who was watching the Church Yard, saw flames in the barn of John Nottage (25 High Street).
The Cottenham fire engine hadn’t been cleaned since the fire in April and couldn’t be used.
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1841:
Joseph Nottage, 50, farmer
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1851:
Joseph Nottage, 63, farmer of 117 acres employing 5 labourers, b Cottenham
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Elizabeth Bull, 58, landed proprietor, b Cottenham
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1861:
William Nottage, 44, farmer of 90 acres employing 3 men and 1 boy, b Cottenham
Sarah Wayman, 67, b Cottenham
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1871:
William Nottage, 55, farmer of 60 acres 1 man and 1 boy, b Cottenham
unoccupied
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1881:
Joseph Nottage, 35, butcher, b Cottenham
Elizabeth, 36, b Willingham
Harriet Elizabeth, 4, b Cottenham
Mabel, 2, b Cottenham
Ada Ann, 1, b Cottenham
Ann Lucas, 13, servant, b Willingham
Rebecca Bull, 59, annuitant, b Cottenham
Ellen, 26, b Cottenham
William Chivers Bull, 23, 120 acres 4 men 2 boys, b Cottenham
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1891:
Rebecca Bull, 69, b Cottenham
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1901:
William C Bull, 43, farmer dairyman and fruitere, b Cottenham
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1911:
William Chivers Bull, 53, farmer, b Cottenham
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1939:
Cynthia Hayes, b 1901, teacher elementary school
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