Private William Wilson, Grantchester

Manor Farm Lodge, 2 Mill Way, Grantchester

History of 2 Mill Way

Listed Building:

Lodge. c.1840. Red brick and fishscale pattern tile roof, bargeboarded ends and diagonally set shaft to ridge stack on rectangular base.

1871 Manor Farm

Sarah May, visitor, 31, miller maltster & merchant, b Suffolk

Emma May, visitor, 21, independent lady, b Essex

Mary Brooks, 23, b Essex

John M Constable, 24, farmer, b Essex

Matthew H Constable, 18, b Essex

Harriet Gascoigne, 24, nurse, b Welney

Ellen Thurlboun, 14, nursemaid, b Harlton

---

William Wilson b 1891 worked as a gardener and pony trap driver in Chaucer Road before WWI. He enlisted in the Cambridgeshire Regiment and was then transferred to the Cameronians. He was badly wounded in 1916, returned home and met Constance Maude Fuller of Bridle Way, Grantchester, who worked at Byron’s Lodge. They married 27th Jan 1917  moved into Lodge Cottage, Manor Farm – rent 1s 6d a week.

William was called back to service. On 21st September 1918 he was killed in an attack on Meath Post.

In the 1911 census William is living with his parents at Whitelocks Yard, Trumpington as a farm labourer. In 1911 Constance Fuller is a housemaid at Newnham College.

In 1901 the family are living at 7 Whitelock’s Yard, Trumpington.

(See World War 1, Francis Burkitt)