106 York Street

A Market Gardener & a General Carter

1881

Number 106 is not on the 1881 Census.

1891

George W Bunting, head, market gardener, 49, 1842, B. Cambridge
Eliza Bunting, 45, 1846, Teversham,
Samuel Bunting, sifts cinders / coal, 15, 1876, B. Cambridge
Martha M Bunting, scholar, 6, 1885, B. Cambridge

1901

George R Bunting, head, 57, gardener, 1844, Cambridge
Eliza Bunting, wife, 47, 1854, Cambridge
Martha M Bunting, daughter, 17, 1884, Cambridge

1911

Samuel Toulson Watts, 32, general carter, b. Grantchester

Kate Elizabeth Watts, 27, jam factory hand, b. Cambridge

Mary Jane Frost, 64, widow, mother, b. Prickwillow – dropsy for 25 years [dropsy is fluid retention]

Kate and Samuel have been married under one year, and the census return was filled out by Kate. They live here very briefly, by 1912 they are living at 25 Norfolk Street and by 1919 they are resident at 80 York Street, where they remain until at least 1946.

Sources: 1911 UK Census, Wikipedia, England & Wales Births (1837-2006), Cambridgeshire Electoral Registers (1722-1966),