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This is the Lord Nelson and True Blue at 23 Sidney Street in 1852. This pub closed in 1919. **
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Residents at this address
Saturday 29th to Sunday 30th July 1837 *
Disturbance prevented
P.C.18 reports that he put a stop to a disturbance in the True blue yard. Also in Slaughterhouse Lane at 5pm.
Sunday 17th to Monday 18th December 1837 *
Robbery at the True Blue Public House
P.C.17 Robinson Reports that Mr Laneford of Streatham on Saturday night 16th Inst was
robbed of about 5 stone of Pork at the true Blue Public House Sidney St and suspected
someone in the house, he went with Complainant and searched the premises but could find nothing.
1861/William Wright/Publican/51/Mepal, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire/Census
1861/Mary Wright/Wife/51/Comberton, Cambridgeshire/Census
1861/Sarah Ivitt/Relative, Farmers Wife/47/Comberton, Cambridgeshire/Census
1861/Geo Wright Ivitt/Ostler/20/Mepal, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire/Census
1861/George Man/Ostler/18/Great Harford, Hunts/Census
1861/John Kildia/Lodger, Confectioner/23/Newry, Ireland/Census
1861/Louisa Barker/Servant/15/Great Chesterford, Essex/Census
1861/William Wright/Relative, Labourer/19/Mepal, Isle of Ely,
Cambridgeshire/Census
1871/William Bright/Inn Keeper/61/Mepal, Isle of Ely/Census
1871/Mary Bright/Wife/62/Comberton, Cambridgeshire/Census
1871/Ellen Harwood/Domestic Servant/12/Great Eversden, Cambridgeshire/Census
1871/Walter Angel/Ostler/19/Great Eversden, Cambridgeshire/Census
1871/Caphas Thomsett/Lodger, Gun Maker/43/Canterbury, Kent/Census
1871/Robert Hickman/Lodger, Commercial Traveller/33/Yeovil, Somerset/Census
1871/Richard Ransome/Lodger, Commercial Traveller/20/Norwich, Norfolk/Census
1871/Henry Hodson/Lodger, Commercial Traveller/54/Warboys, Hunts/Census
1871/Edward Hodson/Lodger, Commercial Traveller/57/Warboys, Hunts/Census
1881/William Goodliffe / Licensed Victualler/../../Spalding’s Directory of
Cambridge **
1881/William Goodliffe/Licensed Victualler/45/Cambridge/Census
1881/Rebecca Goodliffe/Wife/32/Teversham, Cambridge/Census
1881/Emma Goodliffe/Daughter/7/Bottisham, Cambridge/Census
1881/Louisa Goodliffe/Daughter/5/Bottisham, Cambridge/Census
1881/Henry W Goodliffe/Son/3/Bottisham, Cambridge/Census
1881/Gertrude Goodliffe/Daughter/1/Bottisham, Cambridge/Census
1881/Ada Goodliffe/Daughter/1 month/Cambridge/Census
1881/Betsy Willmot/Domestic Servant/17/Orwell, Cambridge/Census
1881/Ellen Upchurch/Domestic Servant/13/Coton, Cambridge/Census
1881/Arthur Aves/Domestic Servant/19/Bottisham, Cambridge/Census
1881/Matthew Frost/Boarder, Joint Carver at College Hall Serv, Widow/76/Isleham,
Cambridge,/Census
1881/Edward Burns/Boarder, Drapers Traveller (Com)/30/Down Co.
Belfast/Census
1881/Patrick McGuigan/Boarder, Drapers Traveller (Com)/21/Down Co.
Belfast/Census
1891/Thomas C Abbs/Publican/51/Runton, Norfolk/Census
1891/Martha Abbs/Wife/50/Cambridge/Census
1891/Kate Abbs/Daughter/10/Cambridge/Census
1892/Thomas Christopher Abbs/../../../Kellys Directory
1896/John Smith/../../../Kellys Directory
1904/Ben Clark/../../../Kellys Directory
1913/Ben Clark/../../../Spalding Directory
1916/Ben Clark/../../../Kellys Directory
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