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High Street, Long Stanton
History of houses in High Street, Longstanton
1871
Henry Abbs, 28, ag. lab., b Long Stanton
James Parkinson, 55, shoe maker, b Long Stanton
Henry Pratt, 37, ag.lab., Cherry Hinton
John Day, 54, ag.lab., b Long Stanton
Susan Thurlborn, 73, b Long Stanton
Edward Cross, 77, ag.lab., b Long Stanton
Elizabeth Cross, 77, b Long Stanton
Bet Cross is described in Enid Porter‘s book Cambridgeshire Customs and Folklore, p.172:
The following story about Bet Cross, the village witch of the late nineteenth century, was told [to Martin Hooton of Cambridge] shortly after the First World War by a Longstanton woman who, as a young girl, used to run errands for Bet.
They do say as ‘ow she was a witch, but I never saw nothing. She used to come out and say to the carters, ‘It’s no use you beatin’ them ‘orses, because they can’t go on till I let’s ’em.’ And the carters they’d go right round the other way rather than pass ‘er cottage. Then there was that business about young ………… He was walking down the lane by the church one Sunday afternoon, and there he saw Bet Cross ridin’ on a hardle. [hurdle, temporary fencing] I don’t rightly know which way up the hardle was, but there she was, and young ………. he said to her: ‘Ah, Bet Cross. I see ye. I’ll tell on ye. Yer a-riding on a hardle.’ And Bet Cross she give ‘im a queer queer look and she says: ‘Young man.’ she says, ‘you can tell on it when you think on it.’ And the funny thing was that it went right out of ‘is ‘ead, and ‘e never did tell on it till ‘e ‘eard the bell goin’ out for ‘er death, and that wasn’t for years. And when he ‘eard the bell ‘e said: ‘Why, if that isn’t for old Bet Cross that I me ridin’ on a hardle. Funny thing, I never thought to tell on it till now.’
The story apparently gave rise to a proverb in Longstanton: ‘You can tell on it when you think on it, and you know when that’ll be.’
Tale of Bet Cross pt1 ©MoC
Tale of Bet Cross pt2 ©MoC
Sarah Pettit, 75, b Long Stanton
Joseph Day, 32, b Long Stanton
Hodson Bell, 50, ag.lab., b Long Stanton
Rament Childs, 41, ag.lab., b Long Stanton
Henry Willson, 34, ag.lab., b Long Stanton
William Pratt, 50, ag,lab., b Long Stanton
Richard Crisp, 35, ag.lab., b Long Stanton
Thomas Rust, 80, ag.lab., b Long Stanton
Lucy Whithead, 60, b Swavesey
Richard Crisp, 55, ag.lab., b Long Stanton
John Hawks, 50, ag.lab., b Long Stanton
John Bell, 36, ag.lab., b Long Stanton
Anne Rignell, 49, laundress, b Hardwick
James Carlow, 40, sergeant of police, b Middlesex
Reason Day, 59, ag.lab., b Fen Drayton
James Rogers, 29, ag.lab., b Long Stanton
Elizabeth Bird, 55, shopkeeper, b Cottenham
1881
William Curtis, 66, farm labourer, b Long Stanton
Lucy Whithead, 70, b Swavesey
Henry Pratt, 47, farm labourer, b Cherry Hinton
John Hawkes, 60, carpenter, b Long Stanton
John Bell, 44, farm labourer, b Long Stanton
Sarah Rignel, 52, laundress, b Hardwick
Henry Wilderspin, 36, sergeant of police, b Cambridge
William Smith, 63, farm labourer, b Long Stanton
John Ram Childs, 51, labourer, b Long Stanton
1891
In the 1891 census there is a long list of those houses on the High Street south of the Black Bull.
John R Childs, 60, farm labourer, b Long Stanton
William Day, 45, farm labourer, b Long Stanton
Charles Sampson, 47, police sergeant, b Barnes Cambs
William Hawkes, 48, platelayer, b Long Stanton
John Bell, 52, ag.lab., b Long Stanton
Sarah Hawkes, 41, b Long Stanton
Jesse Pratt, 30, shepherd, b Long Stanton
Edward Chriss, 41, farm labourer, b Long Stanton
Henry Pratt, 55, farm labourer, b Cherry Hinton
William Crisp, 66, farm labourer, b Long Stanton
Rebecca Abbs, 45, b Long Stanton
James Parkinson, 99, B shoemaker, b Long Stanton
Elizabeth Wheller, 43, b Swavesey
James Pratt, 40, ag.lab., b Long Stanton
Richard Crisp, 40, ag.lab., b Long Stanton
William Few, 67, ag.lab., b Long Stanton
Eliza Smith, 75, b Long Stanton
Mary Crisp, 80, b Chesterton
Mary Pratt, 60, midwife, b Long Stanton
Ann Childs, 42, charwoman, b Long Stanton
Horace Pink, 40, groom, b Long Stanton
James Abbs, 68, farm labourer, b Long Stanton
John Wilson, 25, farm labourer, b Long Stanton
1901
Approx location of houses in 1901 listed from the Black Bull to the Vicarage.
High Street:
Thomas Wilson, 32, horsekeeper on farm, b Long Stanton
Jesse Pratt, 40, road man, b Long Stanton
Police Station:
William James Allen, 47, police sergeant, b Hauxton
High Street:
William Hawkes, 50, railway platelayer, b Long Stanton
William Crisp, 58, market gardener, b Long Stanton
Henry Pratt, 67, yardman on farm, b Cherry Hinton
Eliza Crisp, 84, living on own means, b Long Stanton
Ernest Burgess, 37, ag.lab., b Long Stanton
Harriet Bell, 63, living on own means, b Long Stanton
William Crisp, 75, ag,lab., b Long Stanton
Ann Childs, 53, housekeeper, b Long Stanton
Ann Parkinson, 79, living on own means, b Oakington
High Street:
Joseph Chapman, 37, farmer, b Over
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