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5 Station Road Swavesey1871: High Street
John Netherwood, 50, widower, bricklayer, b Swavesey
Charles, 20, bricklayer, b Swavesey
John, 16, bricklayer,
Read, 12, b Swavesey
Mary Ann Coote, 23, housekeeper, b Hunts
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1881:
Elizabeth Allen, widow, 56, annuitant, b Lolworth
Mary Ivitt, sister, 54, annuitant, b Lolworth
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1891:
Ann Ivitt, 67, living on her own means, b Lolworth
Elizabeth Allen, sister, widow, 69, living on her own means, b Lolworth
Susan Francis, lodger, 73, living on her own means, b Childerley
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1901:
Robert Collen, 48, mechanical engineer, b Soham
Elizabeth, 41, b Soham
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1911:
Joseph Gillings, 86. widower, old age pensioner, b Swavesey
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1913:
Mr. Rowcliffe’s house was destroyed, with old cottages, tenanted by Miss Rebecca Thorp and Gillings.
No.5 was built on the site of a cottage that burned down in the great fire of 1913. It was built by Robinson Mitham for Albert Parish, coal merchant.
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