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Riversdale, Grantchester
History of Riversdale
Grantchester, OS 1881
1871 Riversdale
William Greene, 46, law student, b Bury St Edmunds Suffolk
Charlotte, 36, b Brigg Lincs
Florence, 15, b Middlesex
William G, 14, b Essex
Alice M, 13, b Essex
Mary C, 10, b Essex
Charles H, 6, b Oxon
Edward, 4, b Oxon
Fred W, 3, b Grantchester
Benjamin, 1, b Grantchester
Helen C, 6 mos, b Grantchester
Martha Hammond, 28, servant, b Norfolk
Alice M Mary Whiting, 21, servant, b St Ives
Sarah Green, 30, servant, b Oxon
William Green died in 1881 in St Kitts where the family plantation was situated. He had been born in 1824 in Bury St Edmunds, son of Benjamin Greene, founder of the Green King brewery.
In 1861 the Greene family is at Takeley in Essex. Charlotte Greene, aged 29 is listed as married and head of family, a farmer of 170 acres employing 7 men and 3 boys. Charlotte Mary is 6 months old.
In 1891 some of the Greene family were living at the Old Vicarage
1881 Riversdale
Arabella Cowland, unmarried, 66, annuitant of private means, b Devon
Alma Dickerson, servant, 25, cook, b Abington
Harriet, servant, 19, housemaid, b Beds
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