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Little Shelford OS 1885

Rectory, Little Shelford

History of Rectory

1851 Rectory

Frederick Metcalfe, 27, curate of Little Shelford, b Fowlmere

Susan, mother, 66, b Ely

Elizabeth, sister, 34, b Fowlmere

Emily Chisholm, sister, widow, 30, b Fowlmere

Henrietta, sister, 34, b Fowlmere

Robert, brother, 25, b Fowlmere

Emily Chisholm, niece, 5, b Fowlmere

Pheobe Willson, 27, servant, b Duxford

Sarah Fuller, 18, servant, b Newton

In 1853 Frederick married Harriet Jane Kynaston, b c.1830.

in 1855 Henrietta married Henry Hurrell of Harston at Trumpington church. Henry Hurrell purchased Madingley Hall and lived there until his death in 1895.

The Rectory or Parsonage was demolished in 1859 after the Metcalfe family left Little Shelford and a new rectory built on the same site.

 

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