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Samuel Grant, 28, coal porter, b. Great Barford, Cambridgeshire
Martha Grant, 28, b. Cambridge
Philip Stocker, 41, cab driver / groom, b. Swavesey, Cambridgeshire
Eliza Stocker, 41, b. Orwell, Suffolk
Ada Stocker, 18, b. Cambridge
Walter Stocker, 17, labourer b. Cambridge
Maude Stocker, 15, b. Cambridge
Grace Stocker, 12, b. Cambridge
Sidney Stocker, 10, b. Cambridge
Fanny Stocker, 8, b. Cambridge
Alice Stocker, 7, b. Cambridge
Phil Stocker, 4, b. Cambridge
E? Stocker, 1, son, b. Cambridge
John Butler, 62, widower, no occupation, b. Cambridge
Job Wheatley, 62, boarder, retired schoolmaster, b. Blunham, Bedfordshire
William Butler, 41, coal hawker, b. Cambridge
Ester Butler, 42, b. Cambridge
Herbert Butler, 18, coal merchant’s vanman, b. Cambridge
John Butler, 15, newspaper boy,
Francis William Butler, 12, school, b. Cambridge
William Butler, 10, school, b. Cambridge
Lizzie Butler, 8, school, b. Cambridge
Alice Butler, 5, school, b. Cambridge
Bertie Butler, 3, school, b. Cambridge
William and Ester have been married for 21 years and have had nine children, two of whom have died.
Sources: 1881, 1891, 1901 UK Census
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