Girton College 1901 census

[moors]

I was informed that my auntie Gertrude Marshall worked at Girton College and I am wondering if she is on the 1901 census. Is it possible for somebody to look please.

[ricky1]

Hi Moors

any age for her, as I carnt see one in Girton

ricky

[moors]

Thank you for looking. I am at the library using the computer, so cannot remember her age at the moment., also she may have lived at home and only worked there.will get back later with more info. Ann

[ricky1]

Hi Moors

can only see three Gertrude Marshall's on the 1901 for Cambs
1 born 1888 ish Wicken
1 born 1893 ish Saffron Walden Sssex, but living in Cambridge
1 born 1896 ish Stetchworth

plus there is one born 1882 ish, but living in Hackney, London

regards
ricky

[moors]

Good morning Ricky thank you for looking again. Gertrude Marshall was born 1883 Cambs.   I have in the passed written to Girton College to ask if she is listed on the employment lists in the period leading up from 1900 but was told only lists of occupations not names which I found strange. I know she never married, and have addresses in Cambridge before and after 1900 where she was, not with family in 1901 Cambridge, I am awaiting the 1911 census. I know about the Gertrude Marshall 1901 living in Hackney which is about the correct (B) date. She is my Great Aunt, my Grandmothers sister. Ann

[mrswoman]

Moors I worked at Girton College, wonderful place, 90 years after your Gertrude.  The place is very haunted I may add, I had a couple of scary moments there.  mrswoman.

[charlotteCH]

Wouldn't she have lived out of College and come in to work each day?
She could be the Saffron Walden one who cycled from where she lived in Cambridge each day.  I'd put my money on her.

charlotte

[ricky1]

Wouldn't she have lived out of College and come in to work each day?
She could be the Saffron Walden one who cycled from where she lived in Cambridge each day.  I'd put my money on her.

charlotte

Thats a good bike journey over 20 miles aday each way .
Reply 4 Moors says she was born in Cambridge, only one born around that time was Chesterton born, which is only 2.5  miles  from Girton.

ricky

[bedfordshire boy]

Something isn't right!

You say that the Gertrude working in Hackney in 1901 is your great aunt, yet you give the same birth year of 1883 for your aunt Gertrude as well.  Are you confusing two separate Gertrudes?

With minimal detail given it's a bit difficult to be certain. but the 1891 census has the following family
RG12/1284 folio 121B
99 Pineworth St, St Andrew the Less, Cambridge
Henry Marshall head marr 40 Commission agent, coal & corn trade b Cambridge
Eliza Marshall wife 32 dressmaker b Thetford Norfolk
Alice Cecil Marshall dau 12 b Cambridge
Olive Marshall dau 8 b Cambridge
Gertrude Marshall dau 7 b Cambridge
Henry Marshall son 5 b Cambridge
Ada Marshall dau 4 b Cambridge
Infant unnamed dau 3 weeks b Cambridge

In 1901 this family is at 9 Hobart Rd Cambridge
Henry Marshall head marr 54 firewood dealer b Cambridge
Eliza Marshall wife 42 monthly nurse b Thetford Norfolk
Henry Marshall son 15 b Cambridge
Arthur T Marshall son 10 b Cambridge
Albert H Marshall son 6 b Cambridge

Olive Marshall 18 was a servant b Cambridge at 33 Chatsworth Rd Hackney in 1901
Ada 15 b Cambridge was a domestic nurse in Cherry Hinton Cambs

There's only one Gertrude Marshall birth registered in Cambs  at the right time - Dec 1883 in Chesterton reg district vol 3b pafe 473. Equally there's only one Olive in Cambs and her birth was also registered in Chesterton in Sept 1882. Henry and Ada were also registered in Chesterton.

My money goes on the Gertrude age 17 that Ricky found working as a servant in Hackney, same as her sister Olive, and she gave her birthplace as Chesterton (whilst her age is clearly 17,  Ancestry got the maths wrong as in the index they give her birth as 1882!). Whilst there were other Marshalls in Chesterton in 1891 I can't see a Gertrude

Your aunt or great aunt  may have worked at Girton, but it just wasn't on 31 March 1901!

David