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Charles Ranner, 32, gardener not domestic, born Newmarket
Elizabeth, 31, born Ipswich
Elsie E, 7, born Newmarket
Ernest W, 5, born Newmarket
William Odell, 61, jobbing gardener, born Middlesex
Ellen, 50, born Cambs.
Ethel Shearer Dawson, niece, 11, born Cambs.
John Thomas Manning, boarder, 22, railway engine spare stoker, born Waterbeach
There was a newspaper report on 3/8/1917 of a birth of a child to Percy William Odell, C Sgt with the Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery. Percy had been born in Cambridge but in 1918 joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force. At the time he was living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. (dates seem wrong?)
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