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William Pettitt, head, 36, 1845, plumber painter & glazer, Cambridge
Julia Pettitt, wife, 35, 1846, Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire
William Pettitt, head, plumber glazier, 46, 1845, B. Cambridge
Julia Pettitt, 45, 1846, Haslingfield
Julia Pettit, head, widow, 55, shirt seamstress, 1846, Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire
George Dickinson, 42, road sweeper for Cambridge Corporation, b. St Matthew’s Parish
Eliza Dickinson, 38, b. St Matthew’s Parish
Ivy Eliza Dickinson, 8, St James Parish, Cambridge
Jacob Burton, 19, boarder, carman for a builder
Arthur Kent, 21, boarder, carman for a coal merchant, b. Cambridge
Eliza and George have been married for nineteen years, thay have had four children, three of whom have died.
Sources: 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911 UK Census
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