Great Shelford High Street 1885 OS mapGreat Shelford:
https://shelford.org/history.htm
Great Shelford Online:
https://www.greatshelford.online
Little Shelford History:
https://www.littleshelfordhistory.com
Little Shelford Online:
https://www.littleshelford.online
Mike Petty:
https://archive.org/details/ShelfordsScrapbook1897To1990
The Great Shelford Arsonist – 1833
Contemporary Newspaper account:
John Stallan – Shelford Arsonist – 1833
Great Shelford arson incidents
Also see:
https://sites.google.com/site/greatshelfordhistory/village-stories-and-people/the-shelford-arsonist
The location of John Stallan’s home was described by Fanny Wale as being behind Woodlands in Woollards Lane. After his execution his widow and their son were living in College Cottages, High Green, Great Shelford in 1841:
Elizabeth Stallan, 45
William Stallan, 9
Elizabeth died in 1848.
A poem believed to have been written by John Stallan lamenting his fate was sent to Capturing Cambridge in 2022 by BF, a descendant:
1833 John Stallan Funeral Sermon
1850
Valuation of the effects of the Late Richard Maris of Great Shelford, died 8th July 1850.
Little Shelford. Roll of Service 1915 (from Fanny Wale ‘Shelford Parva’) compiled by Lieut Col Louis Tebbutt
K F Andrews, 1st Cambs Reg TF
Meyrick V Bagnall, Corpl, R Eng
Walter Bowtell, Pt, 8th Suffolk Reg
Charles Braddick, seaman, ‘Princess Royal’
Bert Cambridge, seaman, ‘Maidstone’
Henry Carter, driver, ASC
Charles Cracknell, Pt, Sea. Highrs
Ernest W Darley, Pt, ASC
Betram Dickerson, Trooper, L Suff Hus Yeo
Victor A Dickerson, Gunner, Royal Field Artillery
Fred B Dockerill, Trooper, L Suff Hus YeoTrooper, L Suff Hus Yeo
Sidney C Dockerill, Corpl, 1st Cambs Ref TF
Stanley Ellis, Pt, 7th (S) Suff Reg
Stephen Ellis, Pt, 7th (S) Suff Reg
H J Fletcher, Pt, 8th (S) Suff Reg
Edward Gall, Trooper, L Suffolk Hus Yeo
John Godfrey, driver, ASC
John Goodwin, seaman, Royal Navy
William Jackson, Pt, 1st Cambs Reg T F
Alexander Larkin, trooper, L Suffolk Hus Yeo
George Lewin, Pt R W Kent Reg
Thomas Marshall, sapper, R Eng
Ernest Meadows, trooper, L Suffolk Hus Yeo
Fred Pearl, Pt, 8th (S) Suff Reg
F N Platt-Higgins, Lieut 1st Cambs Reg TF
Horace A Plumb, Pt, RAMC
Sidney Plumb, trooper, L Suff Hus
James Purkiss, Sergt, Suff Reg
Llewellyn Rogers, Steward, ‘Indomitable’
Rupert Rogers, trooper, Hamps Yeo
Henry Ryder, gunner, Royal Field Artillery
Wilfred Smith, gunner, Royal Field Artillery
Herbert J Taylor, Pt 1st Cambs Reg
William Taylor, Pt, King’s Own Reg Lancs
H L Thompson, Capt, R Garr Artillery
Leslie H Thornton, Gen Staff, Rifle Brigade
William C Watson, lieut, Somerset LL
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