LIFE GOES ON: AN INTRODUCTION

MY GRANDPARENTS - I - MY GREAT-GRANDPARENTS - I - MY GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS - I - MY GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS

THE SIXTEEN FAMILIES

KNOTT - I - BOWLES - I - WATERS - I - HARRALL - I - PAGE - I - WISEMAN - I - CROSS - I - CARTER

CORNWELL - I - HUCKLE - I - MORTLOCK - I - MANSFIELD - I - REYNOLDS - I - CARTER - I - ANABLE - I - STEARN

CHRONOLOGY - I - DRAMATIS PERSONAE - I - WHERE PEOPLE CAME FROM - I - CALENDAR

MAP OF ELY - I - MAP OF MEDWAY
MAP OF CAMBRIDGE AND DISTRICT

THE WORKHOUSE

WORLD WAR I - I - WORLD WAR II

simonknott.co.uk I home I e-mail

LIFE GOES ON





Comberton Bourn


The Huckle family: Gone for a Soldier

My Mother's Father's Father's Mother's family

The narrative can be read in conjunction with
the Cornwell family tree. You can see places significant to the Huckle family on the site map of Cambridge and district.
This family story includes material from, and links with, the stories of the
Cornwell, Mortlock and Mansfield families. My direct ancestors are highlighted in bold the first time they appear in the narrative.

My great-great-great-grandfather William Huckell was born in Comberton to the west of Cambridge in 1798, and baptised at Comberton parish church on the 30th September of that year. As one of his elder brothers was born in haddenham, it is possible that the Huckles had moved to Comberton shortly before WIlliam's birth. On 26th January 1818 he married Elizabeth Farrington at Bourn parish church, a few miles to the west of Comberton. Elizabeth Farrington was the daughter of Hannah Anderson, who had been born Hannah Bavey, but had married John Anderson in Bourn, Cambridgeshire. John died in 1796, and Hannah then embarked upon a relationship with a local farmer, William Farrington, who was estranged from his wife. They produced six illegitimate children, one of whom was Elizabeth. Eventually, William's first wife died in 1810, and within days William and Hannah were married, making the children legitimate and changing all their surnames to Farrington.

When William Huckell and Elizabeth Farrington married, they were both nineteen years old. Elizabeth may have been already pregnant, for on the 25th November that year their daughter Sarah was baptised in Bourn church. In later life Sarah would give her birthplace as Chlderley, which is a village in the north of Bourn parish. It is possible that Sarah was born before William and Elizabeth married, in which case she may not have been William's daughter but Elizabeth's from an earlier relationship. William and Elizabeth would have at least fivechildren, but there are others who may be theirs. Also, there was a big gap of seven years in the sequence of births beween 1824 and 1831. It may be that there were unrecorded births during this time, but in 1842 William would give his occupation as a soldier. As he was already 44 years old at that time it is likely he was a soldier in earlier life, and may well have been away from home for much of the 1824-31 period. At some time during this period the family moved a few miles from Bourn back to William's birth village Comberton. It is possible that they had lived elsewhere in between. These are the eight known children of William and Elizabeth Huckell.

    Sarah Huckle
Born Childerley, 1818 and baptised in Bourn parish church on 25th November 1818 when her surname was spelt Huckle, as would be the case for all subsequent children. She married Robert Marshall in Comberton on 29th October 1835 - if Sarah was not born before her parents' marriage then she was just 17 years old at the time. At the 1841 census they were living in Comberton with their daughter Sarah who was one year old. They would remain in Comberton all their lives. By 1851 they had three children, Sarah, Robert and Susan, and Sarah's widowed mother Elizabeth was living with them. Sarah's husband Robert was an agricultural labourer, and would be recorded as such on each census. Three more children, Mary, James and Elizabeth, would come along by 1861, when their address was given as Swines Lane, Comberton. By 1881 they were living in North Field, all their childrfen having left home. Sarah died in Comberton in the 4th quarter of 1888. She was 71 years old.

Jane Huckle
Born Bourn, 1821 and baptised in Bourn parish church on 25th March. She was living at home in Comberton with her mother at the 1841 census, when she was 20 years old. She gave birth to an illegitimate son, William, in 1839. She married the 38 year old widow William Leet in Histon on 25th July 1845, when the witnesses were my great-great-grandparents William and Frances Cornell, Frances being Jane's sister. Jane and William's son Charles was baptised in Histon in 1847, and Alfred in 1849. Sadly, Alfred died at the age of eleven weeks, and there was further tragedy to come, because in February 1851 Jane gave birth to a son, Stephen, who died after just three days, and Jane herself was dead two weeks later. They were all buried in Histon churchyard. By the time of the 1851 census, Jane's husban William was a widower again, and was living in Histon with their son Charles, Jane's son William and his own two sons from his previous marriage, Newman and William. But Jane's husband William joined Sarah in Histon churchyard just two years later, leaving the six year old Charles an orphan.

Frances Huckle
Born Bourn, 1823 and baptised in Bourn parish church on 22nd February 1824. My great-great-grandmother - see below.

John Huckle
Born Comberton 1831 and baptised in Comberton parish church on Christmas Day. He died at the age of two and was buried in Comberton churchyard.

Emma Huckle
Born Comberton 1834 and baptised in Comberton parish church on 11th January 1835. In 1851 the 16 year old Emma was living as a servant in the household of Thomas Baker, a farmer of 330 acres at Barton, the next village to the east on the outskirts of Cambridge. Emma married Frederick Badcock at Caldecote near Comberton on 6th November 1854. However, the couple do not appear to be on subsequent censuses.

There are five more children who may be William and Elizabeths. However, there appears to have been another William and ELizabeth Huckle in Comberton in the 1840s, and the census data suggests that these children belong to the other couple:

Harriett Huckle
Born Comberton 1838 and baptised in Comberton parish church on 20th January 1839.

Martha Huckle
Born Comberton 1841 and baptised in Comberton parish church on 2nd May.

John Huckle
Born Comberton 1843 and baptised in Comberton parish church on Christmas Eve.

William Huckle
Born Comberton 1845 and baptised in Comberton parish church on 17th May 1846.

Elizabeth Huckle
Born Comberton 1847 and baptised in Comberton parish church on 23rd January 1848.

   

Histon today is a sprawling northern suburb of the city of Cambridge, but even in the 19th Century it was a large and busy village, inextricably joined to the neighbouring village of Impington. Traditionally a farming community, it was also the home of Chivers, who built their first big factory in Histon towards the end of the 19th Century.

My great-great-grandmother Frances was at home with her mother for the 1841 census when she was 18 years old. The following year she married William Cornell in Histon parish church on 4th July 1842. The witnesses were William's brother James and Ann Diver. Her father's occupation was given as soldier, which might explain why he was not at home on the night of the 1841 census.

Interestingly, William and Frances's first child, Susan, was not born until 1845, almost three years after the marriage. She lived just fourteen days, and was buried in Histon churchyard on 19th October. But William and Frances would have ten more children, the third youngest of whom would be my great-grandfather William Huckle Cornwell who was born in Histon on 24th January 1864. By then, his grandfather William Huckle was dead. He died in September 1848, and was buried on the 21st of the month. Oddly, it would take 16 years and two other boys before Frances and William named a child after Frances's father.

Intriguingly, although William and Frances's marriage certificate gave their surname as Cornell, my great-grandfather's birth certificate recorded him as William Huckle Cornwell. In the Histon parish registers, all except the youngest of my great-grandfather's siblings were also registered under the surname Cornell. His parents William and Frances were both dead by the time of the first self-reported census of 1911, and in any case both were illiterate; but there is evidence that they continue to use the Cornell form of spelling for themselves. When Frances died in 1908, her death was registered under the surname Frances Cornell. Several of my great-grandfather's brothers and sisters also later used the Cornwell variant of the surname from time to time, and on the 1911 census form my great-grandfather gave his own surname as Cornwell, in his own writing. But his older brother Alfred used the spelling Cornell on the same occasion, and so it looks as if my family's continued use of the surname Cornwell through the 20th and into the 21st century might be due to a slip of the pen by the Histon parish registrar in 1864.

These are William and Frances Cornell's children:

    Susan Elizabeth Cornell
Born Histon 1845. She was baptised on October 9th, but lived for just 14 days, and was buried in Histon churchyard on October 19th. It appears that her birth was not officially registered.

Sarah Ann Cornell
Born Histon 1847. She was baptised at St Andrew's Church, Histon on the 9th April. She was living with her parents in 1851 and 1861. No marriage is recorded for a person with this name between 1861 and 1871, and yet she does not appear to be on the 1871 census. On the 1881 census, she may well be the 37 year old Cambridgeshire-born Sarah Cornell who is a nurse living in the household of the sugar refiner John Schwartz in Highbury, north London. After, this, Sarah disappears from view, probably marrying but possibly going abroad, and I have not yet found out anything about her.

James Cornell
Born Histon 1850. He was baptised at St Andrew's Church, Histon on the 10th March. He married Elizabeth Willson at Girton in 1875, his surname recorded as Cornwell. In 1881, James and Elizabeth were living in the village of Girton, about two miles from Histon, with their children Arthur, Florence and Leonard. However, the family do not appear on the 1891 census. A seven year old Arthur James Cornwell died in the Chesterton registration district, which includes both Girton and Histon, in 1883. A James Cornwall, born in Histon and of the right age, is living in 1891 in a convalescent home in Westgate-on-Sea near Margate in Kent. This is likely to be our James. He gives his condition as Married rather than Widower. I have found no further trace of James or his wife. In 1901, their daughter Florence was
a servant in a house in Benet Place in Cambridge.

Lucy Hannah Cornell
Born Histon 1852. She was baptised at St Andrew's Church, Histon on the 29th August. Charmingly, her name was recorded as Louisiana on the 1861 census. Lucy married James Morgan, a cook, at St Andrew's Church, Histon on the 19th March 1876. He was 20 and she was 23. Although her name was recorded in the Histon parish registers as Cornwell, she signed her own name as Cornell. The witnesses were her brother Alfred and her sister Elizabeth, who were both able to sign their names as Cornell. In 1881, James and Lucy lived at 14 Orchard Street in Cambridge, with their children George, Alfred, Frank and Montague. Interestingly, living with them as a servant was an eleven year old Elizabeth Cornell of Cottenham, presumably a cousin or niece of Lucy's. By 1884 there were two more children, Olive and Frederick, but after this Lucy's husband James died. Shortly before the 1891 census she married the sixty year old John Joseph Tilley, a lithographer, and they lived with the six children at Grove House, Histon Road, Cambridge.

By 1901, Lucy was a widow again, at the age of 49 (although she gave her age as 46 to the census enumerator). She was living as a needlewoman with two of her children on Searle Street off of Victoria Road in Cambridge. She didn't marry again. In 1911, her youngest son Frederick, a bookbinder, was still living with her at the age of 27. So far, I have not traced Lucy's death.

Alfred John Cornwell
Born Histon 1854. He was baptised at St Andrew's Church, Histon on the 17th December. His birth was registered under the name Cornwell, but he appears as Cornell on later censuses. He was a witness to his sister Lucy Hannah's marriage in 1876. In 1881 he married Mary Ann Everitt of Cottenham. They lived in Water Lane in Histon, where Alfred was a farm labourer. Their eldest child Bertie was born in 1882, followed by a succession of six girls, Isabella, Zillah, May, Eva, Florence and Grace. By 1901, Alfred's widowed mother-in-law Hannah Everitt was also living in the household. They were still living in the same house in 1911. Alfred died in 1914 at the age of sixty.

Elizabeth Jane Cornell
Born Histon 1857. She was baptised at St Andrew's Church, Histon on the 17th May. She was a witness to her sister Lucy Hannah's marriage in 1876. She appears to be the Elizabeth Ann Cornell who was buried in Histon churchyard on October 9th 1883, four days after her brother Frederick, suggesting that the cause was an accident or a contagious disease. She was twenty-six years old. Her sister Mary's second daughter, born fifteen months later, was named Elizabeth Jane Cornwell Field after her.

Mary Eliza Cornell
Born Histon 1859. She was baptised at St Andrew's Church, Histon on the 23rd October. Mary married the labourer Arthur Field on June 11th 1882 at St Andrew's Church, Histon. He was 30, she was 23. Mary's surname is recorded as Cornwell, and she signed as Cornwell. Her husband was illiterate, and signed with a cross. The witnesses were her brother William (who signed with a cross) and her sister Hannah. They lived in Water Lane in Histon near to Mary's brother Alfred. They had four children in the 1880s: Frances Anna, Elizabeth Jane Cornwell, Percy Benjamin (who died at the age of seven months) and George Edward Leonard. Elizabeth Jane Cornwell was clearly named after Mary's sister (above), who had died shortly before Mary's daughter was born. It seems likely that Frances was named after Mary's mother, but her name is recorded as Florence on censuses after 1891.

By 1901, Mary's husband was recorded as a horsekeeper, and her daughter Florence was working in the Chivers jam factory in Histon, as was Mary herself by 1911. So far, I have not traced Mary's death; neither Mary nor her husband's burials are recorded in the Histon and Impington records.

Hannah Cornell
Born Histon 1862. She was baptised at St Andrew's Church, Histon on the 2nd February. In 1881, Hannah was working as a servant in the household of the soap and candle manufacturer Mark Ives Whibley at Hurst House, Milton Road, Cambridge. The following year, she was a witness to her sister Mary Eliza's marriage, and to her brother William's marriage in 1885, where she signed her name as Cornwell. Hannah married John Royal Hounsham, who had also been a witness to her brother William's marriage, in Cambridge in the 4th quarter of 1885. Hounsham was from Bentley in Hampshire. In 1891 Hannah and John were living at 128 Newmarket Road Cambridge with their children Frederick and Harrold, who had both been born in Cambridge. Hannah's husband John was a stationary engine driver, probably working in the Barnwell quarries. In 1896 they were in Whittlesey for the birth of a child, and by 1901 they had moved to Old Fletton in Peterborough, for John to work in the brickfields. They now had three daughters, Daisy, Dorothy and Gladys. In 1911 they were living at 19 Duke Street Old Fletton in Peterborough. There were no more children, but rather distressingly the couple noted that they had had eight children, four of whom had died. Hannah herself died in Peterborough in 1930, at the age of 68.

William Huckle Cornwell
Born Histon 24th January 1864. My Great-Grandfather. See below.

Fanny Maria Cornell
Born Histon 1866. She was baptised at St Andrew's Church, Histon on the 27th June. She died when she was just seven months old, and was buried in Histon churchyard on 10th February 1867.

Frederick Charles Cornwell
Born Histon 1868. He was baptised at St Andrew's Church, Histon on the 18th February. He was recorded at the age of 13 as an agricultural labourer on the 1881 census. He died in 1883, apparently four days before his sister Elizabeth, suggesting that the cause was an accident or a contagious disease. He was buried in Histon churchyard on 5th October, when he was fifteen years old.

   

My great-grandfather William Huckle Cornwell was privately baptised, suggesting that there was some doubt that he would live, and then received into St Andrew's Church, Histon on the 6th March 1864. At the time of the 1871 census, the family were living in Bell Lane, Histon, and then ten years later in Coes Lane, where my seventeen year old great-grandfather was recorded as an agricultural labourer. He married Eliza Mortlock of Needingworth, Huntingdonshire, a village about eight miles from Histon, at St Andrew's Church, Histon on the 22nd March 1885. They were both 21 years old. William signed with a cross, suggesting that he was illiterate (although he was able to fill in and sign the 1911 census form 26 years later). The witnesses were John Royal Hounsham and William's sister Hannah, who signed her own name as Cornwell. Later in the same year, Hannah would marry John Royal Hounsham.

William and Eliza moved into a house in High Street, Histon, where the first six of their children were born, and then at the turn of the century they moved a short distance to the nearby village of Oakington, where three more children were born, including their youngest, my grandfather Edmund Stanley Cecil Cornwell, who was born on 31st July 1903. These are their nine children:

    Clarence Charles Cornwell
Born Histon, Cambridgeshire on the 19th December 1885. His birth was registered under the surname Cornell rather than Cornwell, but when he was baptised at St Andrew's church in Histon on 17th January 1886, his surname was recorded as Cornwell.
In 1911, Charles was still living at home and working as a farm labourer. However, in the second quarter of 1911 he married Caroline Flack of Trumpington in the Chesterton Registration District. When the First World War broke out, Charles enlisted as a private soldier with the Cambridgeshire Regiment, but was transferred to become a Lance-Corporal in the Military Foot Police. His medal record shows that he landed in France on the 14th February 1915, when he was 29 years old. He survived the War, and remained in the forces, joining the Grenadier Guards. My mother remembers him visiting her family in uniform when she was a child in the 1940s. Clarence died in Cambridge in the 4th quarter of 1956.

Lily Elizabeth Cornwell
Born Histon, Cambridgeshire on the 13th August 1887. Her birth was registered under the surname Cornell rather than Cornwell, but when she was baptised at St Andrew's church in Histon on 11th September, her surname was recorded as Cornwell. She went to work as a nanny in France. She married Thomas Shemilt at Leigh in Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire in 1909. Shemilt was born at Godstone in Staffordshire in 1884. In 1911, the couple lived with Thomas's mother Emma Shemilt, née Cope, who was a widow; her husband of three years, George Shemilt of Stone, Staffordshire, had died in 1885. In 1923, Lily's sister Ruth was living with her husband John nearby at Corton. In 1944, Lily's father William was staying with them at Rough Park Bungalow, Handsall Ridware near Rugeley when William died. Lily died at Burton-upon-Trent in Staffordshire in 1957, at the age of 70.

Walter Eric Cornwell
Born Histon, Cambridgeshire on the 29th June 1889. His birth was registered under the surname Cornell rather than Cornwell, but when he was baptised at St Andrew's church, Histon on 4th August his surname was recorded as Cornwell. He married Gertrude Simpkins in the Chesterton registration district in the second quarter of 1915. Walter died in Cambridge in 1967 at the age of 77.

Violet Maude Cornwell
Born Histon, Cambridgeshire on the 15th September 1892. She was the first of the children whose birth was registered under the surname Cornwell. She was baptised at St Andrew's church, Histon on 23rd October. She married Ernest Frederick Golding at St Andrew's church, Oakington on 3rd February 1912. Golding was a farm labourer who also came from Oakington. Violet died in September 1961 in Manchester.

Catherine Ayliffe Grace Cornwell
Born Histon, Cambridgeshire on 15th February 1894. She was baptised at St Andrew's church, Histon on 25 March. She worked in service at Roxford Grange at Hertingfordbury in Hertfordshire. She married Frederick George Cannon on the 30th August 1919 at Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire. They lived in Hertfordshire. Catherine died in Hertfordshire in the last quarter of 1962.

Frances Eliza Cornwell
Born Histon, Cambridgeshire on the 29th April 1895. She was the last of the children to have her birth registered under the surname Cornell. When she was baptised at St Andrew's church, Histon on 26th May, her surname was recorded as Cornwell. She married Charles Hewitt at Elham in Kent in July 1924. They lived in Worthing in Sussex, where I visited and stayed with them in the early 1960s, although I do not remember this. She died in 1972. Her daughter Joan remained great friends with her cousin, my mother, until she died in 2010.

Ruth Mortlock Cornwell
Born Oakington, Cambridgeshire on 30th April 1899 and baptised along with her brother William at St Andrew's church Oakington on 25th August 1901. She married John Wheeldon at St Andrew's church Oakington on 5 Jan 1921. John was a platelayer from Burton-on-Trent in Staffordshire (Ruth's sister Lily lived in Staffordshire, which may be significant). Two years later in 1923, they were living at Colton Hall Barn Cottages, Corton near Rugeley in Staffordshire when Ruth's younger brother Edmund was married from that address. In 1944, Ruth's sister Lily and her husband were living four miles away at Hamstall Ridware, and it is possible that they were near neighbours at this time, too. Ruth died in March 1967 at Hastings in East Sussex.

William Arthur James Cornwell
Born Oakington, Cambridgeshire on 28th June 1901. and baptised along with his sister Ruth at St Andrew's church Oakington on 25th August 1901. He married Gladys Shepherd in the last quarter of 1927 in Bethnal Green, London. In later life he lived in south London, where he kept a garage. I can just remember visiting and staying with him in the 1960s. He died in Redbridge in the last quarter of 1974.

Edmund Stanley Cecil Cornwell
Born Oakington, Cambridgeshire on 31st July 1903, and baptised at St Andrew's church, Oakington on 27th September. My grandfather - see below.

   

When Edmund Stanley 'Stan' Cornwell was born, Stan's father William gave his occupation on the birth certificate as a bricklayer's labourer, but by 1911 he is shown as a roadman for Chesterton District Council, and this would also appear on his death certificate 33 years later. William had adapted his parents' surname of Cornell into Cornwell. Nevertheless, some of Stan's siblings had their births registered under the surname Cornell rather than Cornwell.

Edmund was always known as Stan. He married my grandmother Winifred Ellen Reynolds in 1923. She came from the neighbouring village of Dry Drayton, but they married in Lichfield, Staffordshire when they were both just 19 years old. They gave false ages to acquire the certificate, as one of them had to be of age, that is to say 21 or over. They were in Staffordshire because my grandmother was pregnant, and they had run away to get married. Stan's older sister Ruth lived at Colton on the outskirts of Rugeley, and she arranged the marriage for them. Their first child was born less than three months later. He had a learning disability, and lived with his mother for the rest of her life.

Stan and Win returned to Cambridge after the birth of their first child, and lived firstly at Oakington with Stan's parents and then in Castle Row near to Win's parents. In the late 1920s they moved away, first to Barway near Ely and then to Grunty Fen on the other side of the river, before settling in Little Thetford.

His parents William and Eliza were still living in Oakington, in a house in Wheeler Street. Eliza trained and worked as a midwife, cycling around the south Cambridgeshire villages. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage on 16th February 1929 at the age of 63. William outlived his wife, and died at the age of 80 on December 3rd 1944, while staying with his daughter Lily at Hamstall Ridware near Rugeley in Staffordshire. My mother tells a story of how, after he died, another daughter Frances went to his cottage wanting to retrieve a memento. Unable to get in, she smashed a window and took a tea strainer off of the draining board. My mother knew him as Grandpa William, and she was photographed with him in July 1938, when she was two and he was seventy-four.

These are the nine children of Edmund Stanley Cornwell and Winifred Ellen Reynolds:

    Cecil Thomas Walter Cornwell
Born Colton, Staffordshire on 29th October 1923. Cecil had a learning disability, and lived with his mother for the rest of her life. After her death, he lived in a care home at Toft, Cambridgeshire. He died in his sleep there in February 1990.

Stanley Arthur James Cornwell
Born Oakington, Cambridgeshire in 1925, and baptised at St Andrew's church, Oakington on 27th September. Known to the family as Jim. This suggests that the family were living with Stan's parents at the time. He signed up for the Navy in the Second World War. He was badly injured on 16th September 1942 aboard HMS Warspite. He was just 17 years old. The battleship was taking part in the Salerno Landings off the toe of Italy when it was hit by a German glider bomber.
This photograph shows the ratings being addressed shortly before the battle. Jim is in this photograph somewhere. He never recovered from his injuries, and died in 1946 at the age of twenty. He was buried in Little Thetford Cemetery, and is mentioned on the Little Thetford war memorial.

Jack Travers Cornwell
Born 2 Castle Row, Cambridge in 1928, and baptised in St Giles's church, Cambridge on 4th March. He was named after Jack Travers Cornwell, a 16 year old posthumous winner of the Victoria Cross, who at the time was one of the great heroes of the First World War. He married Edna Martin in Ely in 1954, and they lived at Mepal, Cambridgeshire.

Reginald Trevor Cornwell
Born River Bank, Barway, Cambridgeshire, 0n 28th January 1930, and baptised at St Nicholas's church, Barway on 6th April. Known to the family as Reggie. Married Beryl Dennis at Ely in 1954. Two years later, their father being dead, Reggie gave away my mother when she married. Reggie and Beryl lived at Little Thetford and then at Wilburton, Cambridgeshire. They had three children, two boys and a girl. Reggie died on 16th August 2001.

Edward Malcolm Cornwell
Born River Bank, Barway, Cambridgeshire 1931, and baptised at St Nicholas's church, Barway on 7th June. Known to the family as Malcolm. Married Betty Rudderham at Ely in 1950. They lived at Wilburton, and had five children, four girls and a boy. Betty died in 2015, Malcolm in August 2016.

Betty Katherine Cornwell
Born River Bank, Barway,Cambridgeshire on 1st December 1932, and baptised at St Nicholas's church, Barway on 7th June 1933. Betty contracted polio as a child, and was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life. She spent time at Manfield Hospital in Northampton, and then after 1956 living in the home for the physically disabled at Dorincourt, Leatherhead, Surrey, later the Queen Elizabeth Foundation. She died in Leatherhead in 1987.

June Frances Cornwell
Born Red Fen Lane, Grunty Fen, Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire in 1934. She married Keith Anthony Palmer at St George's church, Little Thetford on 9th April 1955. They lived at Little Downham and had two children, a boy and a girl.

Marion Patricia Cornwell
Born Red Fen Lane, Grunty Fen, Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire on 27th February 1936. She married Graham Knott at St George's church, Little Thetford on 4th August 1956. They lived at Little Thetford and then in Cambridge, and had three children, all boys. Marion died in Cambridge on 30th June 2016.

Albert Paul Cornwell
Born Front Street, Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire in 1937. Known to the family as Sonny. He married Shirley Carter at St Mary's church, Ely in 1957. They lived in Ely and had two children, both boys.

   

Stan was a farrier, working with horses on farms in the Isle of Ely. During the Second World War he was in the Cambridgeshire Regiment. He was missing for six months before his family discovered he was in a hospital. He is the only one of my grandparents that I did not know - he died of a heart attack at the age of 50, in 1953, nine years after his father died and eight years before I was born. He is buried in Little Thetford cemetery.

 
AT A GLANCE: DETAILS FROM REGISTERS AND CENSUS DATA
all addresses are in Cambridgeshire unless otherwise stated.
 
 
  Birthplace 1881 census 1891 census 1901 census 1911 census married to
  (date registered) age address age address age address age address date of marriage

William


Histon, Cambs (1819)


66


Coes Lane, Histon

 
William was dead by the time of the 1891 census

       
William married Frances Huckle on the 4th July 1842 at Histon, Cambridgeshire


Frances
(Huckle)

Bourn, Cambs (1824)


53


Coes Lane, Histon


66


High Street (1), Histon


77


near the School, Histon

 
Frances was dead by the time of the 1911 census


Frances married William Cornell on the 4th July 1842 at Histon, Cambridgeshire

                     

Susan Elizabeth


Histon, Cambs (1845)

 
Susan Elizabeth was dead by the time of the 1881 census

             


Sarah Ann


Histon, Cambs (1847)

   
37

152 Highbury NP, London?

         
I have not found Sarah on the 1891 census

           
I have not found Sarah on the 1901 census

           
I have not found Sarah on the 1911 census

 


James


Histon, Cambs (1850)


31

 
High Street, Girton

 
41

Westbury Road, Westgate-on-Sea, Kent

           
I have not found James on the 1901 census

           
I have not found James on the 1911 census


James married Elizabeth Willson in 1875 at Girton, Cambridgeshire


Lucy Hannah
(Louisiana)


Histon, Cambs (1852)


27

 
14 Orchard Street, Cambridge

 
38


Histon Road, Cambridge

 
46


Searle Street, Cambridge

 
58


Searle Street, Cambridge


Lucy married James Morgan on the 19th March 1876 at Histon, Cambridgeshire. After his death, she married John Tilley in 1891 at Chesterton, Cambridge.


Alfred


Histon, Cambs (1854)


25


Coes Lane, Histon

 
35

 
Water Lane (1), Histon

 
45

   
Water Lane (1), Histon

  
55

     
Water Lane (1), Histon


Alfred married Mary Ann Everitt in 1881 at Cottenham, Cambridgeshire


Elizabeth


Histon, Cambs (1857)


23


Coes Lane, Histon

     
Elizabeth was dead by the time of the 1891 census

         


Mary Eliza


Histon, Cambs (1859)


21

 
Coes Lane, Histon

     
30

   
Water Lane (2), Histon

 
41

     
Water Lane (2), Histon

 
53

     
Water Lane (2), Histon


Mary married Arthur Field on the 11th June 1882 at Histon, Cambridgeshire


Hannah


Histon, Cambs (1862)


19

 
Hurst House, Milton Road, Cambridge

 
128 Newmarket Road, Cambridge

   
High Street, Old Fletton, Peterborough

   
19
Duke Street, Old Fletton, Peterborough

     
Hannah married John Royal Hounsham in Cambridge in the last quarter of 1885.


William


Histon, Cambs (1864)


17

 
Coes Lane, Histon

 
27


High Street (2), Histon

 
38

 
Dry Drayton Road, Oakington

   
47

   
Dry Drayton Road, Oakington

 
William married Eliza Mortlock on the 22nd March 1885 at Histon, Cambridgeshire


Fanny Maria


Histon, Cambs (1866)

 
Fanny Maria was dead by the time of the 1881 census

             


Frederick Charles


Histon, Cambs (1868)


13

 
Coes Lane, Histon

   
Frederick Charles was dead by the time of the 1891 census

         
     
   
     
Ages are as shown on census.
(name) after name indicates different given name on some censuses.
(number) after street name indicates more than one Cornwell household in that street.
 

 

LIFE GOES ON: AN INTRODUCTION

MY GRANDPARENTS - I - MY GREAT-GRANDPARENTS - I - MY GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS - I - MY GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS

THE SIXTEEN FAMILIES

KNOTT - I - BOWLES - I - WATERS - I - HARRALL - I - PAGE - I - WISEMAN - I - CROSS - I - CARTER

CORNWELL - I - HUCKLE - I - MORTLOCK - I - MANSFIELD - I - REYNOLDS - I - CARTER - I - ANABLE - I - STEARN

CHRONOLOGY - I - DRAMATIS PERSONAE - I - WHERE PEOPLE CAME FROM - I - CALENDAR

MAP OF ELY - I - MAP OF MEDWAY
MAP OF CAMBRIDGE AND DISTRICT

THE WORKHOUSE

WORLD WAR I - I - WORLD WAR II

simonknott.co.uk I home I e-mail

LIFE GOES ON