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6 North Cottages - the Chamberlain family6 North Cottages (North Terrace) (Nightingales Cottages) Trumpington Road
History of North Cottages
1910
Mercy Metcalfe née Gillett lived here from 1910 to 1919.
1913 North Terrace
Michael C Metcalfe, gardener
1914
Michael was killed by a sniper in the Third Battles of Ypres, aged 32. Mercy was left with six children.
1920
Percy John Chamberlain, who had lost his first wife in the ‘flu epidemic of 1918 after the birth of their seventh child, married Mercy and went on to have five more children
(See David Chamberlain family history posters)
1950
Chamberlain family
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Chamberlain family
1962
Aleck Jaroswich
1970
Aleck Jariszewicz
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