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Adam and Eve Street nos 1-4 (MoC)1 – 25 Adam and Eve Street (Row)
History of Adam and Eve Row
1861
19. Thomas Cardinal was living here. His mother was Ann Spurgeon, aunt of Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Thomas is buried at Mill Road Cemetery.
1891
- George Ashby
2. Eliza Bell
3. Herbert Hills
4. Hetty Scott
5. Thomas Wilkin
6. Samuel Caudall
7. Alfred Loaks
8. James Strachan
9. & 10. unoccupied
11. Martha Smill
12. David Coe
13. Anthony Redding
14. Eliza Green
15. Ann Rayner
16. William Franklin
17.
Ann Camps, 55, b Suffolk
John C, 15, son, b Cambridge
Octavius Phillips, boarder, 23, printer compositor, b Wales
Harry Swann, boarder, 19, merchant’s clerk, b Cambridge
19. John Daisley
18. Elizabeth Bottomley
20. Martha Noble
21. Henry Juby
22. uninhabited
23. Maurice Maltby
24. Alfred Arnold
25. Mary Stubbings
26. Charles Ward
35. Arthur Rutter
36. Caroline Stock
37. James Cornwell
38. Henry Bell
House back no.38: uninhabited
39.
Sarah Mayes
Maria Leonard
40. Frederick Hatley
41. Frederick Sterling
42. John F Spilman
43. Edwin Blackwell
44. Thomas Horn
45. Louisa Allen
1911
1.
Ethel [née Warrington] Hoskison, widow, 28, college helper Pembroke College, b Whittlesford
[Her husband, William H Hoskison, died in 1908 aged 26]
Harold, 9, b Cambridge
Lily, 6, b Cambridge
Leonard, 3, b Cambridge
In 1901 Ethel was living at 33 Burleigh Street.
In 1901 William H Hoskison was living at 2 Granta Place.
In 1939 Leonard was living at 98 Lovell Road
Jane Barham wrote in detail about her grandmother in Backstairs Cambridge, 1986. Ethel worked as a bedder for Emmanuel College. When her husband died she had no pension. She worked from 6 til 11 every morning; went home to feed her children; went back to college to wash up after lunch; came home for tea and returned to college to wash up after dinner. She was paid 6s a week. Her rent was 3s 6d so she had 2s 6d to live on. She would sometimes clean a pub at night for another 6d. She died aged 56.
1913
- Mrs E A Hoskinson
2. George Brown, stonemason
3. Walter Robert Hardy, furniture remover
4. James Ingall, custodian Free Library
5. Francis Flaxam, vanman
6. Arthur Richard Flack, painter
7. Mrs Hicks
8. Mrs Langram
9. Leslie Wheaton, vanman
10. Miss Biggs
11. James Peter Keal
12. Bertie Churchman, packer
13. W J Andrews, cab proprietor
14.
Percy James Coburn, bricklayer
Lilla ‘Lil’ Coburn née Clarke
The Coburn family later moved to 12 Edward Street.
15. Mrs Jones
16. Herbert Blackwell
17. Henry Juby
18. Herbert William Maltby, relief stamper
19. William Mathews, brewers labourer
20. Harry A Clark
21. John Warrington
22. Mrs Gibson, bedmaker
23. Herbert Starling, coachman
24. George Barnes
25. Joseph Berry, shoemaker
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