16 Church Street Fen Ditton

16 Church Street, Fen Ditton

History of 16 Church Street

Listed building:

House, dated 1828 on brick in south gable. Painted gault brick.

1861 unnumbered

Ann Harvey, 69, married, proprietor of houses, b Chesterton

Mary Witt, boarder, widow, 70, dressmaker, b Maidstone Kent

Shadrach Jacob, boarder, widower, 72, retired grocer, b Chesterton

Cambridge Chronicle and Journal 24th August 1861:

The newspaper account of the murder of Ann Harvey by her son Thomas, and his suicide.

Map of the centre of Fen Ditton village in 1901. Ann Harvey’s house is immediately north of the almshouses next to the capital ‘P’.

1901 OS map: central Fen Ditton

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