A 1901 Ordnance Survey map detail showing residential plots, the Manor House, a school, and a burial ground on Mortlock Street.

Mortlock Street OS 1901

22 Mortlock Street, Roseleigh, Melbourn

History of 22 Mortlock Street

1893 Charles Day and Mary Elizabeth Lilley marry 15th March in Melbourn.

White two-storey cottage with a central gabled porch, black door number 22, and a street sign reading Mortlock Street.

22 Mortlock Street, Melbourn

1901

Charles Day, 29, groom, b Melbourn

[In 1901 Charles was living with his parents in Melbourn High Street]

Mary E, 31, b Dulwich

[Mary Elizabeth Lilley (1869-1959) was the daughter of Henry Gunning Lilley and Elizabeth Jane Brodie. She moved to Meldreth to work for the Mortlock family and subsequently married Charles Day, an estate worker. This was not well received by her family.]

Charles, 6, b Melbourn

Henry B, 4, b Melbourn

Mable L, 1, b Melbourn

Maud L, 1, b Melbourn

A man with short hair wearing a suit and tie sits in a wooden folding chair against a backdrop of a painted coastal scene.

Charles Day sen.

1911

A man in a suit and flat cap stands beside a woman in a patterned dress holding a small dog in front of a parked vintage car.

Mary Elizabeth and Charles Day senior

Charles Day (1871-1956), 40, estate carpenter, b Melbourn

Mary Elizabeth(1869-1959) , 42, Dulwich Surrey

Charles (1894-1978), 16, student Cambs County School, b Melbourn

Young man in a suit jacket and light trousers crouches beside a shaggy, long-haired dog against a vertical planked wall.

Charles Day jun.

Henry Brodie, 14, student Cambs County School, b Melbourn

[Henry Brodie ‘Harry’ Day (1897-1918). After serving as a lance corporal with the Suffolk Regiment he was commissioned as an officer in October 1917 and joined C Company, 1st battalion 1st Cambridgeshire Regiment on 3rd January 1918. He was killed by shellfire exactly one month later. There is a large transept window in Melbourn Parish church in his honour.]

A head-and-shoulders monochrome portrait of a man in a military tunic with metal collar badges, a tie, and a leather belt.

Henry Brodie ‘Harry’ Day Mortlock Street Melbourn

Mabel Lilley Day (1899-1986), 11, b Melbourn

Black and white head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman with chin-length wavy hair wearing round glasses and a dark collared top.

Mabel Lilley Day

Maud Lilley Day (1899-1993), 11, b Melbourn

Ralph Brodie Day (1901-1931), 1, b Melbourn

A dark, rectangular memorial plaque mounted on a wall with etched lettering commemorating Ralph Brodie Day.

Memorial to Ralph Brodie Day in Melbourn Parish Church

1918 Charles and Mary were living at Greenhill/Grinnel Farm.

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