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Photo of Lally Smith by Samuel Page Widnall, Old Vicarage Grantchester

Old Vicarage, 61 Mill Way, Grantchester

History of Od Vicarage

Listed building:

House. c.1684 and mid C20 restorations. Brick ground floor, timber-framed first floor, part replaced by brick, and original brick end walls.

This is the Old Vicarage referred to by Rupert Brooke in his poetry. He moved there in 1910.

1881

Samuel Page Widnall, 55, retired farmer, b Grantchester

Elizabeth Widnall, 54, b Worcester

Martha Adcock, boarder, 67, annuitant, b Leicester

Jane Elizabeth Docwra, 18, cook, b Bourn

Amy Sarah Docwra, 13, housemaid, b Bourn

1891

Samuel Page Widnall, widower, 65, farmer

Lally [Sally] Smith, sister in law, 69, living on own means, b Worcester

Frederick Walter Green, visitor, 28, living on own means, b Grantchester

Mary Charlotte Green, visitor, 30, artist in oils and watercolour, b Essex

Mary Elizabeth Stigwood, servant, 20, domestic servant, b Stetchworth

1901 The Old Vicarage

Sally Smith, 79, living on own means

Annie Smith, 44, servant

1903 letter from Lally Smith, Old Vicarage Grantchester, to Flossie Wagstaff

1903 letter from Lally Smith, Old Vicarage Grantchester, to Flossie Wagstaff

 

 

 

 

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