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William Jackson Pope7 West Road (New Road), Holm Leigh / Homeleigh
History of 7 West Road
1871
Edwin Fuller, 20, gardener’s assistant, b Cambridge
George Dean, 21, gardener’s apprentice, b Fulbourn
1881
Edmund Carver
1891
Carver
West Road OS map 1903
1901 Holm Leigh
Hawkes
1911
Joseph Thomson [Nobel Prize for Physics 1906], 54, professor of experimental physics, b Manchester
Rose Elizabeth, 52, b Cambridge
George Paget, 18, b Cambridge
Joan Paget, 8, b Cambridge
Gertrude Mary Gibson, governess, 18, b Lancs
Ellen Victoria Adams, 23, servant, b Cambridge
Annie Louisa Thrower, 26, servant, b Ely
Kathleen Wallage, 21, servant, b Wood Ditton
Homeleigh, West Road, Christmas card (date unknown)
In 1881 J J Thomson was a Fellow living at Trinity College. At the time of the 1891 census he was a visitor at Ventnor, Isle of Wight. For the 1901 census he was staying in Caernarvonshire.
1913
Joseph John Thompson
Sir Joseph John Thomson, Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics
In the 1939 register he is Master of Trinity College, living there with his wife Rose.
1939
William Jackson Pope, b 1870, university professor of chemistry
Violet C Herbert, b 1879, private means
Lily Utteridge, b 1914, cook
Ethel G Pearce, b 1906, parlourmaid
Edith Whiye, b 1893, sick nurse
1962
Department of Applied Economics
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