1851
Edmond Foster, 36, attorney of common council, b Cambridge
Sarah, 36, b London
Sarah, 11, b cambridge
Lucy, 10, b Cambridge
Edmund, 6, b Cambridge
John E, 3, b Cambridge
Ann Hodgson, 29, servant, b Cambridge
Martha Harry, 31, b Cherry Hinton
Sarah Barnett, 19, servant, b Haddenham
Adelaide Jones, 24, servant, b Suffolk
Hodson’s Folly and garden on the common land of Coe Fen have been controversial in the past. The Council and possibly Pemberton Landholdings did bring legal action against Hodson, for allegedly trespassing and causing damage to the adjacent landholdings in the 1880’s. However, Hodson won the cases brought against him including the Councils case in 1886, which cost them nearly £40 about 120 days of a craftsman wage at the time. At the time Cambridge Town Council asked the town clerk, Edmond Foster, to resign over the Hodson case; he didn’t.
1891
John E Foster, 43, solicitor, b Cambridge
1911
Sara Stanley, 70, widow, b Cambridge
Grace Wentworth Stanley, 45, daughter, b Trumpington
Guy Wentworth Stanley, 43, solicitor, b Bourn
Constance E Wentworth Stanley, 40, b Longstowe
Susan White, 30, servant, b Cambs
Emily Woollard, 24, servant, b Cambs
Agnes Mary Baker, 18, servant, b Comberton
Sara Stanley was the widow of Sidney Stanley (b 1828 d 1896), son of William Wentworth and Mary Ann Newport. Sara was the daughter of Edmond Foster.
Sidney was given the name Wentworth at birth but in 1856 his name was legally changed to Stanley. He was High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire between 1873 and 1874 and lived at Longstowe Hall in Cambridgeshire. The couple had 13 children.
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