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6 North Cottages - the Chamberlain family

6 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

1951

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1960

Chamberlain family

1962

Aleck Jaroswich

1970

Aleck Jariszewicz

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