178 Hills Road, Trumpington House

History of Trumpington House

1872

Richard Miller moved here with his family. He was implicated in the the suicide of Jessie Chauntler in 1872 and gave evidence at the inquest in 1873. The following is from the footnotes to the transcription researched by PHS:

Richard Miller (c.1827-1876), wine merchant of Trumpington House, Hills Road, Trumpington near Cambridge; he was baptised 26 August 1827 at Holy Trinity, Cambridge, the son of Richard Miller senior (c.1877-1853), also a wine merchant, and his wife Sarah (née Inglett, c.1796-1882); Richard Miller junior inherited his father’s business at 10-12 Market Hill, Cambridge, alongside his mother and brother, George Edward Miller (c.1830-1862); he lived at the business premises and was recorded there on the 1841, 1851 and 1861 Censuses; however, in 1871 he was recorded on the Census at 4 Newnham Terrace {later Newnham Road}, Cambridge, with his mother, Sarah Miller (née Inglett), and Elizabeth Vail, 28, housemaid, and Sarah A. French, 22, cook; the property may have been rented preparatory to the move to Trumpington House in around 1872. 

1876

Further footnote from the Jessie Chauntler inquest transcription by PHS:

Richard Miller died on 1 December 1876 at Trumpington House, not apparently of remorse but of ‘Chronic pleuro Pneumonia – & disease of the Aortic Valves of the Heart’. Trumpington House was inherited by Richard’s sister Eliza and her husband Alfred Jones, who inhabited it with Richard’s mother, Sarah Miller, and his sister, Marianne Starmer (c. 1823-1911); Marianne was living there from at least 1873, when she gave it as her address in a published appeal for funds to assist the Titchborne Claimant.

1881

For details about Alfred Jones and the Jones family generally visit:

http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~macculloch/genealogy/p78.htm#i4471

Alfred was the sone of the dentist John Jones who practised at 63 Trumpington Street.

Alfred Jones, 48, member of the college of dentists, dentist, farmer of 210 acres, 7 men, 7 boys

Eliza, 49

Sarah Miller, mother in law, 84, widow, annuitant, born Swavesey

Marianne Starmer, sister-in-law, widow, 57, annuitant, born Cambridge

Alfred Jones, nephew, 25, dentist, born Stamford

Adelaide Jones, niece, 24, born Lincoln

Laura Sexton, servant, 39, cook, born Spalding

Kate Duce, servant, 24, housemaid, born Shelford

Rebecca Easy, 18, housemaid, born Cambridge

It seems possible that Jone’s Farm on Hills Road  was in fact Alfred Jones’s Farm. He may have bought the original Jordan’s Farm which is marked on earlier maps at the time he inherited and built Trumpington House.

1891

Alfred Jones, 59, retired dentist

Eliza, 59, born Cambridge

Montague, nephew, 28, student, born Stamford

Mary Ward, visitor, 48, companion, born London

Matilda Chapman, 23, cook, born Cambridge

Gertia Chapman, 17, housemaid, born Cambridge

Sarah Barker, 18, housemaid, born Cambridge

1901

Alfred Jones, 68, retired dentist, born Cambridge

Beatrice E, 27

Florence L, 4

Mary E K Ward, servant, 55, secretary, born Westminster

Walter J Box, servant, 34, male nurse, born Hereford

Matilda Chapman, servant, 32, cook, born Grantchester

Elizabeth Longford, servant, 42, nurse, born Chesterton, deaf

1911

Beatrice Emma Jones, 37, widow, born Shrewsbury

Florence Louise Jones, 14, born Cambridge

Mad.lle E Meier, 18, governess, born Switzerland

Henry John Robinson, visitor, 65, born Ipswich

Elizabeth Lofts, servant, 35, cook, born Cambs

May Tabor, servant, 18, housemaid, born Grantchester

Ethel Peachey, servant, 18, parlourmaid, born Fulbourn

Beatrice was the widow of Alfred Jones, born 1832. He was a dentist and took over his father’s business in 1878 at 63 Trumpington Street and built Trumpington House soon afterwards. He first married an Eliza Miller in 1859 and then Beatrice Anna circa 1895.

Alfred Jones was one of two dentists elected to work at Addenbrookes in 1887 under the Dental Act of 1878. Each attended for one hour a week. Jones was one of the first dentists to use prolonged nitrous oxide anaesthetic with a nasal inhaler.

There is detailed genealogical information about him on this site:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~macculloch/p78.htm#i4471

there is further information in the ‘History of Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge’ by Rook, Carlton and Graham Cannon.