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Edward Henry Palmer38 – 39 Green Street
38 - 39 Green Street
1851
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Sophia Palmer, widow, 62, college servant, b Cambridge
Mary Ann, daughter, lodging house keeper, b Cambridge
Charles Matthew, 32, son, tailor, b Cambridge
William Henry, grandson, 12, b Cambridge
Edward Henry, grandson, 10, b Cambridge
Frances Lambeth, 33, servant, servant, b Royston
John Henry Rowan Ward, lodger, 19, undergraduate Trinity Coll., b Cheshire
Basil Francis Hall, lodger, 18, undergraduate Trinity Coll., b Scotland
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Beaumont Pain, 49, master bookbinder, b London
Edward Henry Palmer, b 7th August 1840, was left an orphan at a very young age. He went to the Perse School, then travelled in the Middle East before studying oriental languages at Cambridge University. He became Professor of Arabic. In 1882 he went to Egypt at the request of the Government but was murdered.
For more information about Edward Palmer see Mary Greene’s autobiography, The Joy of Remembering.
1861
(38)
Thomas Peters, 71, tailor & robe maker, b Cambridge
Martha, 80, b Cambridge
Lydia Newel, 22, servant, b Cambridge
(39)
George Gray, 37, house painter, b Cambridge
Emma, 28, b Cambridge
Sarah A Stearn, 18, servant, b Cambridge
1874
(38)
James Pettit Warrington
(39)
David Ellis, college servant
1913
(38) Miss Smith, lodging house keeper
(39) Headquarters of the 1st Eastern General Hospital RAMC “T”
1962
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