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Topic: JOHNSON and Sons Tailors and Clothiers 51, Sidney Street, Cambridge, any photos? (Read 510 times)
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Keith Sherwood
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Annie,
Thanks so much for all those amazing links! You've got so many of these up your sleeve, sorry that I buttonholed you about all this, blah blah blah... I'll shut up now and concentrate on the tailoring. Getting really quite excited about all this 18thC Cambridge family history. I'm now beginning to become very interested in my own city (have lived here for 36 years) for the very first time, strange really. Perhaps it's something to do with the fact that the University has dominated in the "Gown" versus "Town" battle of interests over the years.
keith
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Keith Sherwood
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The ancestral trail never ends, does it...?
I'd better give an update on the JOHNSON's who seem to have been a bit of a business dynasty in Cambridge in the early part of the 19thC. Thanks to cross-matching various census pages on Ancestry, and finding some (not all) of the baptisms of up to perhaps 7 children born to John and Susannah JOHNSON between 1800 and 1818 (found four Non-conformist entries listed at Dr Williams Library at the Cambs FHS site), it appears that in 1851, for example, four brothers were running three separate businesses in Cambridge within spitting distance of one another...
William and Octavius JOHNSON were running the tailors at 51, Sidney St, aforesaid...
Right next door brother James JOHNSON was running a bookshop at 50, Sidney Street...
And just around the corner brother Richard JOHNSON was running a grocery at 29, Market Hill.
A bit of a monopoly, then, on what you wore, what you read, and what you had to eat in mid-19thC Cambridge...
By 1871 Richard had retired to Henley, and brother William to a village south of Cambridge. Not quite sure yet what happened to James, but business must have boomed for the family...
keith
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... just hope nobody gets the "needle" !! 