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Henry Polendine, head, 41, 1840, coal carman (pensioner in army), Brinkley, Cambridgeshire
Jane Polendine, wife, 42, 1839, Lantry Dock, Cornwall
Susan Polendine, daughter, 9, 1872, scholar, Cork, Ireland
Henry Polendine, son, 7, 1874, scholar, Bermuda, West Indies
Francis Polendine, son, 5, 1876, scholar, Bermuda, West Indies
Alfred Polendine, son, 2, 1879, Cypress, Turkey (British subject)
Frances Goymer, head, Laundress, 34, 1857, B. Cambridge
Henry A Goymer, scholar, 11, 1880, B. Cambridge
Carrie E Goymer, scholar, 9, 1882, Peterborough
Ernest W Goymer, scholar, 8, 1883, Peterborough
James B Brown, head, 25, grocer’s porter, 1876, Chesterton, Cambridgeshire
Emma J Brown, wife, 25, 1876, Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire
Malcolm B Brown, son, 3, 1898, Cambridge
Beatrice A Brown, daughter, 1, 1900, Cambridge
Jane Millburn, visitor, 30, sick nurse, 1871, Batham, Suffolk
Robert John Howlett, 30, blacksmith (shoeing smith), b. Manchester
Eliza Howlett, 28, b. Cambridge
Walter Thomas Howlett, 4, b. Cambridge
Eliza and Robert have been married for eight years. They have had two children, one of whom has died.
Sources: 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911 UK Census
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