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Dant's Ferry

Cutter Ferry Cottage, Cutter Ferry Path

History of Cutter Ferry cottage

1871 Cutter Ferry (in 1861 the Dant family were at 3 Quayside)

Samuel Dant, ferry man

Mary Ann

Catherine

Harry

Samuel

Alfred

 

David Dant, waterman, b St Ives

Susannah Dant, granddaughter, housekeeper, b St Ives

Samuel Rogers, grandson, errand boy, b Cambridge

1881 River Ferry, Cutter Premises

Samuel Dant, 48, waterman ferryman, b Hunts

Mary Ann, 47, b Norfolk

Katherine, 18, domestic servant unemployed, b Cambridge

Harry, 16, apprentice, b Cambridge

Samuel, 13, errand boy, b Cambridge

Alfred, 11, b Chesterton

Lizzie, 9, b Chesterton

Arthur, 7, b Chesterton

Alice, 2, b Chesterton

 

David Dant, 73, master waterman, b Hunts

Charlotte, 67, b Waterbeach

Eliza Sheldrake, niece, 35,

1913

George L Hones

1927

The Cambridge Ghost Book, Halliday and Murdie, 2000, describes the ghostly encounter in December 1927 which continued into January, reported in the press in January 1928. Various people saw apparitions in a marshy clump of woodland known as The Willows. Some claimed the ghost like shape would drift across the river from the direction of Abbey House. Some thought that this was just the discharge of marsh gas, known as will-o’the-wisp.

 

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