John Roudd, 31, tallow chandler
John Heston, 22, police officer
Childer Starling, 57, shoe maker
Simon Moden, 73, lawyer [b 1768 Cherry Hinton; d 1847; b St Michael]
Mary Ann Boud, daughter, 43
John Boud, 13
Mary Boud had married her first husband, John Boud, 28.8.1827 St Michael’s Cambridge. In 1851 Mary Ann Boud [Bowd?], dress maker, b Cambridge, was living in Jesus Lane with her son, John William, 22, tailor, b Cambridge, and Rebekah, 24, daughter in law, b Cambridge. In 1850 at All Saints Cambridge John William Boud married Rebekah Locke Bailey. Mary later married Rebekah’s father, John Bailey b 1791, Denton, Norfolk.
In 1853 Mary Ann Boud and her son, daughter in law and their two children, William 11 mos. and Edward [Edwin] 3 wks and John Bailey, emigrated from Liverpool on the SS Golconda. They sailed up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Keokuk, Iowa.
John William Boud died, possibly of yellow fever, and Rebekah remarried, William Bacon, in Keokuk, in 1855. Mary died in Hamilton, Hancock, Illinois in 1867. (email in 2022 from GS)
Mary Cragnall, 48, upholsterer’s assistant
William Taylor, 49, cabinet maker
Robert Woodhouse, 45, cabinet maker
Robert Clayton, 60, fishmonger
William Watson Headdey, 65, college butler, b Trumpington
Elizabeth Chess Headdy, 60, b Cambridge
Louisa, 22, governess from home, b Cambridge
Maria, 17, b Cambridge
Maria Francis, servant, 22, b Bottisham
Henry John Martin, 20, lodger, student Trinity College, b London
Charles Thomas Smith, 27, lodger, MA Univ Cambridge, b Middlesex
Several of those households in the 1851 census listed in Sidney Street are in 1861 listed in Wray’s Court i.e. Emma Harvey, Rebecca Woodhouse, Anne Starling.
1.
Thomas Bradford, 32, cabinet maker, b Cambridge
Anne M, 32, b Cambridge
Walter, 16, b Cambridge
2.
Rebekah Woodhouse, 56, college servant, b Balsham
3.
Emma Harvey, 40, college servant, b Herts
Richard Elwood, lodger, 60, college servant, b Longstanton
4.
Thomas Ethridge, 63, carver & gilder, b London
Maryann, 50, b Cambridge
Thomas R, 3, b Cambridge
Mary Bentley, 60, upholsterer, b Cambs
5.
Elizabeth C Headdy, widow, 70, lodging house keeper, b Cambridge
Louisa, 31, governess, b Cambridge
Sarah Sterling, 19, servant, b Essex
6.
Charles Starling, 40, shoe maker, b Cambridge
Elizabeth, 40, b Saffron Walden
Elizabeth, 8, b Cambridge
Fredrick, 5, b Cambridge
Charles, 3, b Cambridge
7.
Ann Starling, 46, dress maker, b Cambridge
Sarah, 30, ladies hair dress, b Cambridge
Lydia Mathews, 10, servant, b Cambridge
(1) Mrs Coe
(2) Miss Clark
(3) Mrs Leech
Misses Sutton and Green, dressmakers
(4) Miss Maria Rowe
Miss Wood
(5) Mrs McLaughlin
W J Christmas, bakehouse
(6,7) Miss Sarah Starling, ladies hair dresser
Mrs Elizabeth Warren
(8) Barnet William Beales, tailor’s workshop
(1) Mrs Woolard
(2) Stanislau Murawska
(3) Mrs Mitchell
(4) Douglas Sanders
(5) George W Bolton
(6) Mrs MacDonald
(7) Mrs Brett
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