Nelson Street, Cambridge

History of Nelson Street

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Nelson Street – Mapping Relief

1881

(1) Charles Beach, 41, railway servant, b Cambridge

(2) James Earl, 45, shoemaker, b London

(3) Sarah Ann Wilderspin, 33, dressmaker, b Cambridge

(4) Robert Beales, 70, tailor, b Bottisham

(5) James Murkin, 32, railway servant, b Suffolk

(6) Mary A Bridgeman, 67, widow, laundress, b Cambridge

(7)

George Osborne, 32, brewers labourer, b Essex

Sarah S, 43, b Cambridge

Arthur J, 9, b Hinxton

William George, 8, b Hinxton

Charles E, 2, b Hinxton

Ellen S, 6, b Hinxton

In 1886 George died aged 38. Sarah remarried Samuel Bonfield, a tailor from Bedford who was working in Cambridge. They were married at St Paul’s Hills Road. When they married they were both living in Doric Street. But by 1891 Sarah was recorded with children from both previous marriages at 34 South Street.

(8 & 9) Jacob Unwin, 43, general labourer, b Essex

(10) Elizabeth Dunlop, 59, greengrocer, b West Wickham

(11) David Chapman, 44, general labourer, b Girton

(12) Martha Jarvis, widow, 39, charwoman, b Grantchester

1891

(1) Albert Levett, 23, osler

(2) Mary A Laxton, 42, laundress

(3) Sarah A Wilderspin, 43, dressmaker,

(4) Mary Blake, widow, 75

(5) Charles Pilgrim, 37, labourer

(6)

Elliott Hayden, 47, scavenger, b Thriplow

Emma, 47, washerwoman, b Thriplow

Arthur, 3, grandson, b Cambridge

Joseph, 77, b Thriplow

In 1881 the Hayden family were at 13 Caroline Place.

(7) William Wisbey, 60, platelayer

1913

(1) Richard Bissett, labourer

(2) W Hammond

(3) Alice Mary Ebbon

(4) William Westley, labourer

(5) A Freeman, basket maker

(6) William Ellis

(7) Mrs A Scott

BAPTIST MISSION HALL

(8) –

(9) Mrs Witt

(10) Mrs Pink

F T Unwin in a Cambridge Childhood Revisited refers to Bill Westley of Nelson Street as the ‘old one-eyed ragman’.