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Rose Lane, Melbourn

Rose Lane, Melbourn

History of Rose Lane

1901:

John Day, 49, carter, b Melbourn

 

Raul Abrey, 28,  coal carman, b Meldreth

 

Stephen Chapman, platelayer, b Melbourn

 

Sarah Reader, 50, seamstress, b Meldreth

 

Jesse Guiver, 52, boot maker, b Herts

 

William Knott, 49, signalman GNR, b Herts

 

Charles Carter, 78, horsekeeper, b Melbourn

 

 

1911:

John Bishop, 41, photographic artist, b Oxon

 

Jessie Guiver, 63, boot and shoe maker repairer, b Melbourn

[The Guiver family lost there home in the 1915 fire]

 

John Pepper, 40, farm labourer, b Plymouth

 

Walter Smith, 49, bricklayer, b Litlington

 

William Hale, 38, bricklayer, b Meldreth

 

CROSS LANE & DOLPHIN LANE

 

John Day, 59, carman, b Melbourn

 

William Pigg, 24, farm labourer, b Royston

 

1939:

Sidney J Green, b 1911, painter and decorator

 

Arthur Button, b 1867, railway clerk retired

 

Walter G Day, b 1868, worker on farm

 

William Smith, b 1888, asbestos worker

 

Alfred E Holland, b 1901, foreman for building company

 

Elizabeth Egglestone, b 1860, retired health visitor

 

Mary A Cooper, b 1880

 

Jarman’s Farm:

John Sullivan, b 1913, sugar beet worker

 

 

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