5 Stone Street, Cambridge

A Labourer and a Laundress

Number 5  is one of a terrace of 8 houses on the south side of Stone Street.

1881

William Webb, 38, carman, b. Cherry Hinton

Martha Webb, 37, laundress, b. Cherry Hinton

Mathilde Webb, 15, laundress, b. Cherry Hinton

George Webb, 12, scholar, b. Cherry Hinton

Alice Webb, 11, scholar, b. Cherry Hinton

Jesse Webb, 9, scholar, b. Cherry Hinton

1891

Charles Coe, 26, Labourer, b. Histon, Cambridgeshire

Emma Coe, 28, b. Histon, Cambridgeshire

1901 – 1960s

Head of Household is Mary Ann Newman, a 46-year-old laundress, from Girton. Her 13-year-old daughter Nellie lives with her.  On the 1901 Census Mary is recorded as married, her husband must be elsewhere on the night the census was taken.

Frank Curtis, a 33-year-old plumber is boarding with the family and they also have a visitor, 18-year-old Ellen Hempstead.

By 1911 Mary records herself as a widow who has been married for 33 years.  She has had five children, only Nellie is still alive.

Nellie is still living at Stone Street with her mother.  She is now 23 and a tailoress.

George Pearson, 32, is now the boarder.  He is a railway shunter from Hardingham, Norfolk.

Nellie marries George Pearson (otherwise Matthew George or George Matthew) and the couple remain at 5 Stone Street at least until the early 1960s.  On the 1939 Register, George is a railway guard.

Sources: 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911 UK Census, 1939 Register, Cambridgeshire, England, Electoral Registers, Burgess Rolls and Poll Books (1722-1966)