1 Adam and Eve (Row) Street, Cambridge

History of 1 Adam and Eve Street

1870s

LM sent this note in 2025:

My great aunt Emma Martha Gardner was born at 1 Adam & Eve Row Cambridge on 9th March 1876. She lived at this address with her parents, my great grandparents, Darcy John Gardner, a carpenter and Susan Gardner (née Redfarn). They had left by 17th March 1878 as this was the date her younger brother was born in Brighton.

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1901

Ethel [née Warrington] Hoskison, widow, 28, college helper Pembroke College, b Whittlesford

[Her husband, William H Hoskison, died in 1908 aged 26]

Harold, 9, b Cambridge

Lily, 6, b Cambridge

Leonard, 3, b Cambridge

In 1901 Ethel was living at 33 Burleigh Street.

In 1901 William H Hoskison was living at 2 Granta Place.

In 1939 Leonard was living at 98 Lovell Road

Jane Barham wrote in detail about her grandmother in Backstairs Cambridge, 1986. Ethel worked as a bedder for Emmanuel College. When her husband died she had no pension. She worked from 6 til 11 every morning; went home to feed her children; went back to college to wash up after lunch; came home for tea and returned to college to wash up after dinner. She was paid 6s a week. Her rent was 3s 6d so she had 2s 6d to live on. She would sometimes clean a pub at night for another 6d. She died aged 56.

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1913

Mrs E A Hoskinson

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1939

A Dring, compositor