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Great Shelford High Street 1885 OS map

Shelfords data

Shelford data

Elms by Little Shelford (MoC)

Little Shelford (location unknown)

Great Shelford:

https://shelford.org/history.htm

Great Shelford Online:

https://www.greatshelford.online

Little Shelford History:

https://www.littleshelfordhistory.com

Little Shelford Online:

https://www.littleshelford.online

Mike Petty:

https://archive.org/details/ShelfordsScrapbook1897To1990

The Great Shelford Arsonist – 1833

Contemporary Newspaper account:

John Stallan – Shelford Arsonist – 1833

Also see:

https://sites.google.com/site/greatshelfordhistory/village-stories-and-people/the-shelford-arsonist

The location of John Stallan’s home is unknown. After his execution his widow and their son were living in College Cottages, High Green, Great Shelford in 1841:

Elizabeth Stallan, 45

William Stallan, 9

Elizabeth died in 1848.

A poem believed to have been written by John Stallan lamenting his fate was sent to Capturing Cambridge in 2022 by BF, a descendant:

John Stallan poem pt1

John Stallan poem pt2

John Stallan poem pt3

1850

Valuation of the effects of the Late Richard Maris of Great Shelford, died 8th July 1850.

Valuation of the effects of the Late Richard Maris of Great Shelford, died 8th July 1850.

 

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