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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 (in fact, he
was probably 56). 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. His birth year is shown as 1864. 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, and his
birthdate is shown as 1815. His mother Frances
was an agricultural labourer's wife.
She was 53, and had been born in 1828.
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.
1929: William's wife Eliza died.
In later life, William lived in a cottage in
Cottenham.
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 he died, another
daughter, Frances, went to the cottage in
Cottenham 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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