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117 York Street

A Mason's Labourer & a Coal Porter

1881

Number 117 is not on the 1881 Census.

1891

David Chapman, head, mason’s labourer, 50, 1841, Girton,
Harriet Chapman, 48, 1843, Great Thurlow, Suffolk
Frederick Chapman, 8, 1883, B. Cambridge

1901

Stephen J Sparkes, head, 29, coal porter, 1872, Kingston, Cambridgeshire
Jessie C Sparkes, wife, 24, 1877, London, Middlesex
Hilda P Sparkes, daughter, 6, 1895, Cambridge
Beatrice A Sparke, daughter, 4, 1897, Cambridge
Stephen J Sparkes, son, 1, 1900, Cambridge
George Biggs, boarder, 19, butcher’s man, 1882, Cambridge

1911

Thomas Beales, 25, general labourer, b. Cambridge

Emma Beales, 25, b. Cambridge

Emma and Thomas have been married for a year.

Sources:  1881, 1891, 1901, 1911 UK Census

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