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1871 Census:
William
was seven years old at the time of the
1871 census. The family name is given as
'Cornell'. The Cornell family were living
on Bell Lane, Histon,
Cambridgeshire.
William's
father William is shown as an agricultural
labourer, aged 50. His
mother Frances was 47.
William
was the fifth of six children at the time
of the 1871 census: the others were Lucy
Hannah (Louisiana on the 1861 census) 18,
Elizabeth Jane 14 , Mary Eliza 11, Hannah
9 and Fred Charly 3. Sarah Ann, James and
Alfred, who appear on the 1861 census,
are no longer at home.
William
was born in Histon,
Cambridgeshire, as were his father and
all the children. His mother Frances was
born in Bourn in Cambridgeshire. The
transcript for their entry is here.
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1881 Census: William was
seventeen years old at the time of the 1881
census. The family name is given as 'Cornell'.
The Cornell family were living on Coes
Lane, Histon, Cambridgeshire.
William is
shown as an agricultural labourer. He
was single in 1881. His father William was an agricultural
labourer. He was 66 years old. His
mother Frances was an agricultural
labourer's wife. She was 53.
William was
the fourth of five children at the time of the
1881 census: Alfred 25, Elizabeth 23 , Mary Eliza
21 and Frederick 13. Also living in the house was
William Cornwell aged 3, described as grandson of
William and Frances.
William was
born in Histon, Cambridgeshire,
as was his father and all the other children. His
mother was born in Bourn, Cambridgeshire. The
transcript for their entry is here.
1885: William married Eliza
Mortlock on the 22nd March at St Andrew,
Histon. They were both 21 years old. The
witnesses were John Royal Hounsham and Hannah
Cornwell.
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1891
Census:
William
was twenty-seven years old at the time of
the 1891 census. His birth year is shown
as 1864. The family name is recorded as
Cornwell for the first time on a census.
The Cornwell family were living on High
Street, Histon, Cambridgeshire.
The road still exists on the outskirts of
the city of Cambridge.
William
is shown as an agricultural
labourer. His wife Eliza is also
aged 27.
William
had three children at the time of the
1891 census: Charles was 5, Lily was 3
and Walter was 1.
William
was born in Histon,
Cambridgeshire, and the children were all
born in Histon. His wife Eliza was born
at Needingworth in Huntingdonshire, today
modern Cambridgeshire. The transcript for
their entry is here.
Two households away (probably next door),
William's mother Frances is shown as a
widower, aged 66. Also living with her is
her grandson William, described as an agricultural
labourer, aged 13. Frances was
born in Bourn in Cambridgeshire, and her
grandson was born in Histon in
Cambridgeshire. The transcript for their
entry is here.
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1901 Census:William was thirty-eight
years old at the time of the 1901 census.
His birth year is shown as 1863. The name
'Cornwell' has been recorded as
'Cornell'. This is the only time this
happened to William after he married, but
may be because the enumerator was a local
man who knew William's father's family,
who retained the old spelling. The
Cornwell family were living on Dry
Drayton Road, Oakington, Cambridgeshire.
Dry Drayton road still exists and is home
to one of the largest glasshouses in
Cambridgeshire.
William is shown as
a bricklayer's labourer.
His wife Eliza is aged 37.
William had seven
children living at home at the time of
the 1901 census: Charles was 15, Lily was
13, Walter was 11, Violet was 9,
Catherine was 7, Frances was 5, and Ruth
was 1.
William was born in
Histon: the children
were all born in Histon except for Ruth
who was born in Oakington. His wife Eliza
was born at Needingworth in
Huntingdonshire. The transcript for their
entry is here.
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1911 Census:
William was
forty-seven years old at the time of the 1911
census. The Cornwell family were living on Dry
Drayton Road, Oakington, Cambridgeshire.
as they were at the time of the 1901 census. Dry
Drayton road still exists.
William is
shown as a roadman, and his wife
Eliza as a farm labourer, also
aged 47. They had been married for 26 years.
William had
seven children living at home at the time of the
1911 census: Charles was 25, Walter 21, Violet
18, Frances 15, Ruth 11, William 9 and my
grandfather Edmund Stanley 7.
William was
born in Histon, Cambridgeshire.
The children were also born in Histon except for
Ruth, William and Edmund Stanley who were born in
Oakington. His wife Eliza was born at
Needingworth in Huntingdonshire. The transcript
for their entry is here.
The page itself is here.
1914: The electoral roll shows
William living at Wheeler Street, Oakington.
1919: On 31st January 1919, the Cambridge
Independent Press recorded that one WIlliam
Cornwell of Oakington had been a primary witness
to a tragic accident: Stanley Lander, a 12 year
old Histon boy, was killed by a steam tractor on
which William was the assistant. As he was a
roadman, this is likely to be our WIlliam.
William reported that at about 5.30pm he was
riding on the hind truck going towards Histon. He
had walked through the town to keep the boys away
and had only just got back up. Near the British
Queen public house he felt two bumps and saw
something black in the road. He told a man who
was riding with him, and then went and told the
driver to stop. When he went back he found the
deceased on the road. The coroner returned a
verdict of accidental death.
1920: At
11.10pm on Friday 20th Sepember 1920, William was
caught riding his bicycle without lights in
Oakington, and he was fined ten shillings. The
incident was reported among a number of similar
cases under the heading 'Lighting Offences' in
the Cambridge Independent Press.
On the 1920
Electoral Roll, William and Eliza are
listed as living at Wheeler Street, Oakington
(she is recorded as Elizabeth).
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1921
Census:
The Cornwell family
were living at Wheeler
Street, Oakington, Cambridgeshire.
William was 54 and is shown as a roadman
(repairer) for Cambridge
County Council. His wife Eliza
was not at home on the night of
the census.
Also in the
household on census night were
William's children Francis, aged
26, whose occupation was shown as
household duties, William, 19, a
driver for Laurie and MacConnall
department store in Fitzroy
Street, Cambridge and Edmund, who
was a month short of his 18th
birthday. He was recorded as
being a bricklayer's
labourer for Mortlock
builders of Willingham (his
mother's family). The census
return is here.
Eliza was staying
with their daughter Ruth Wheeldon
and husband John Wheeldon at
Hamstall Ridware, Staffordshire.
Eliza was 55 years old. Their
son-in-law John was a plate layer
for the civil engineering
department of the Rugeley TU. As
well as John and Ruth, a two year
old daughter Cynthia was also in
the household. The census return
is here.
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1929: William's
wife Eliza died of a cerebral hemorrhage at Wheeler
Street, Oakington, Cambridge, on the
16th February. She was 63 years old. The death
was notified by William, who gave his occupation
as County Council roadman.
1938: On
the Electoral Roll, William is shown living at
Wheeler Street, Oakington.
1939: On
the 1939 Register, William is shown living alone
at 11 Dry Drayton Road, Oakington,
Cambridgeshire. His occupation was given
as a roadman for Cambridgeshire County Council.
1944: William Huckle Cornwell
died at the age of 80 on 3rd December 1944, while
staying with his daughter Lily Shemilt and her
husband Thomas at Rough Park Bungalow, Hamstall
Ridware near Rugeley in Staffordshire. He was 80
years old. Thomas notified the birth.
My mother
tells a story of how after William had died, his
daughter Frances went to the cottage in Oakington
wanting to retrieve a memento. Unable to get in,
she smashed a window and took a tea strainer off
of the draining board.
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