Ezra Lee and family with water cart, Cottenham c.1900 (F J Smith)

Little End, Rooks Street, Cottenham

History of Little End, Rooks Street

The old cottages down the road between 101 and 105 Rooks Street were known as Little End, (Cottenham in Focus, 2002)

The Lee family lived in the house in the photo. In 1891 there were two Lee families listed at Little End, one in the ‘Rose and Crown.’

After the typhoid outbreak of 1885 Ezra Lee took water to the Church End district until 1903.

1891 Rose and Crown

John Lee, head, 39, farmer publican, b Cottenham

Jane Lee, 37, b Cottenham

Elizabeth, 15, draper’s apprentice, b Cottenham

Clara, 13, b Cottenham

William, 11, b Cottenham

Grace, 8, b Cottenham

Ethel, 3, b Cottenham

Elizabeth, widow, mother, 73, b Cottenham

Eliza Phypers, 15, b Cottenham

 

Francis Lee, 68, farmer, b Cottenham

Ann, 62, b Cottenham

Ezra, 24, farmer’s son, b Cottenham

Bertha Cheney, daughter visitor, 29, b Cottenham

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1901

Ezra Lee, 34, publican and farmer,

Maud, 29,

Francis, 5,

Reginald, 3,

Florence, 2,

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1911

Ezra Lee, 40, farm labourer, b Cottenham

Maud, 38, b Cambridge

Francis, 14, b Cottenham

Reginald, 13, b Cottenham

Florence, 12, b Cottenham