6 Stone Terrace, Stone Street, Cambridge

A Painter and Dressmaker

Number 6 is part of a terrace of 6 houses at the end of Stone Street.

1891

James Sparrow, 39, Painter, b. Cambridge

Mary Ann Sparrow, 38, Dressmaker, b. Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

Florence Sparrow, 13, Scholar, b. Cambridge

Jessie Sparrow, 10, 13, Scholar, b. Cambridge

Lilly Sparrow, 8, 13, Scholar, b. Cambridge

Bertie Sparrow, 6, 13, Scholar, b. Cambridge

Freddy Sparrow, 4, 13, Scholar, b. Cambridge

Nelly Sparrow, 1, b. Cambridge

Harry Sparrow, 1 month, b. Cambridge

1901

Head of household in 1901 is Edward Hulyer, a 39 year old general labourer.  Edward is the son of Robert Hulyer, a coal dealer who lives on York Street.  On the 1891 Census, Edward can be found living at 16 Ainsworth Street with his first wife Mary Ann and their two young children.

Mary Ann died in June 1893 and Edward remarried later that year. Edward and his second wife Ellen (nee Tarrant) have now moved onto Stone Street.  Ellen is 30.

Edward’s son Charles Edward (14) is living in Halifax with his maternal grandparents, but Thomas is 11 and still living at home.  Edward and Ellen have had two children of their own, Elsie aged 3 and Lorna aged 2.

The couple have returned to Robert Hulyer’s property at 92 York Street by 1904.  There is a report in the Cambridge Daily News for the 28th October 1904 describing the circumstances of Edward Hulyer’s death.  The family has been evicted from the house and had their property removed.  Edward came home from Cottenham to find his family in the street.  According to the report he was worse for drink and forced his way back into the property, tore a gas pipe from the wall and inhaled the gas.

The jury returned a verdict of “died by an accident brought on through his own folly, through pulling down a gas pipe and inhaling the gas, which stupified his sense, and stupified him.”

Ellen remarried in 1910.

1911

William Smith, 40, brewer’s labourer, b. Swaffham Bulbeck

Bessie Smith, 36, b. Brookwood, Surrey

Thomas Smith, 12, b. Swaffham Bulbeck

Kathleen Smith, 10, b. Cambridge

Harold Smith, 8, b. Cambridge

William and Bessie have been married 13 years and have had three children.

Source: 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911 UK Census, Cambridge Daily News (28.10.1904),