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George Harrison, head, married, 58, bricklayers labourer, b. Swaffham, Cambridgeshire
Martha Harrison, wife, married, 45, dressmaker, b. St Ives, Huntingdonshire
Robert Parr, boarder, unmarried, 22, bricklayers labourer, b. Upware, Cambridgeshire
Tom Flack, 27, Locomotive Engine Gland Packer, b. Cambridge
Annie Flack, 27, b. Cambridge
Annie C Flack, 5, Scholar, b. Cambridge
Harry Flack, 5 months, b. Cambridge
John Williamson, 33, Lodger, Police Constable, b. Cambridge
A Gland Packer: “packs glands of steam regulator valves and pump valves of engine with greased hemp or asbestos packing to make steam joints steam-tight or water-tight”
The Flack family have moved to 166 Sturton Street by 1901, taking John the boarder with them.
George Swann, 29, Grocer? b. Cambridge
Alice Swann, 29, b. Cambridge
Maud Swann, 5, b. Cambridge
May Swann, 9 months, b. Cambridge
William Cox, 21, boarder, farrier, b.Norfolk
John Hewitt, head, 43, married, labourer general, b. Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
Sarah Hewitt, wife, 40, married, b. Cambridge
Percy Hewitt, son, 16, errand boy, b. Cambridge
Gwendoline Hewitt, daughter, 9, school, b. Cambridge
Married 17 years, 2 children
Sources: 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911 UK Census, A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921
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