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34 (4, 20) (Fir Cottage) Ross Street (4 Butt Terrace, Rifle Butt Row)(4 Butts Row)
History of 34 Ross Street
The current owner of 34 Ross Street has researched the list of previous occupants of his house.
1878 (4 Butt Terrace, Rifle Butt Row)
Andrew Manning, printer
1880 – 1881 (4 Butts Row)
Walter Bunn, 30, coachman
1881 4 Butts Row
Ann Bunn, Head, widow, 68, b Abington Pigotts
Walter Bunn, son, 30, coachman, b Abington Pigotts
Samuel Bunn, son, gardener, 24, b Abington Pigotts
Elizabeth Bunn, daughter, dressmaker, 28, b Abington Pigotts
Walter Bunn, grandchild, 6, b Abington Pigotts
Edward Bunn, grandchild, 3, b Cambridge
In the 1871 census, the family are living in Abington Pigotts. Elizabeth is a patient in the Metropolitan Asylum, Hampstead.
In 1901 Walter Bunn is boarding at 22 Madras Road.
1884 (4 Volunter Butts Terrace, Butts Row)
Mrs Bunn
1885 – 1890 (Rifle Butt Row)
Thos Mayes, plasterer
1891 4 Ross Street
Thomas Alfred Mayes, Head, 31, plasterer, b Cambridge
Annie Mayes, wife, 36, b Cambridge
Alfred Mayes, son, 11, b Cambridge
Thomas Percy Mayes, son, 8 b Cambridge
Beatrice Daisy Anne Mayes, daughter, 5, b Cambridge
Livie Laure Stonebridge, sister-in-law, living on own means, 19, b Cambridge
Later family moved to 2 Haymarket Terrace (Haymarket Road) where they had 3 more sons.
1895 – 1898 20 Ross Street
James Taylor, bricklayer
1898 – 1899 20 Ross Street (Falcon Terrace)
Mrs C Catley
1901 34 Ross Street
Mrs. Catley, widow, 55, b Cambridge
Charles R Catley, son, 15, b Leics
Henry A Catley, son, 11, b London
James Cowling, lodger, 44, labourer, b Cambridge
Sidney P Hughes, lodger, 19, shopman, b London
1902 owner Lillian Alice Jones
1902 owner Ernest Edward Bryan
1908 Fir Cottage
Henry Farrow
Caroline Catley
1911
Caroline Eliza Catley, widow, 66, b Thriplow
Charles Robert Catley, 25, son, labourer cement manufacturer, b London
James William Cowling, 55, boarder, general labourer Corporation, b Linton
1913
George Daniel Gipp, labourer for Cambridge Gas Company
Amelia Gipp (nee Moule)
George Gipp previously lived at 28 Ross Street. One of his brothers (John Gipp) was killed at the Battle of the Somme on 14th October, 1916. George and Amelia married in 1911. George died in 1914 aged 37.
1915
Amelia Gipp
Re-married (to Walter Parkington) in 1915
1919 – 1963
Walter Parkington
Amelia Parkington (nee Gipp)
Walter was a blacksmith who was born in Stanton, Suffolk.
Amelia died in 1950 aged 67
1939
Parkington, Walter, b 13.9.1878, blacksmith
Parkington, Amelia, b 7.8.1881, charlady
1964 vacant
1965 – 1975
Arthur Patten – painter
Florence Patten (nee Wilson)
The Pattens previously lived at 42 South Street
1976 – 1978
Florence Patten, widow
1979 – 1981
David C. and Janet C. Aldridge
1982 – 2007
Susan Bowman, nurse at Addenbrookes
2007 –
Paul Saunder: retired IT manager
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