1891 Census for the Parish of Arrington (Part Two) Alms House > School House > Old North Road > Farmhouse > Arrington Mill Farm > Old North Road (con.)
A local history and genealogy page for the Parish of Wimpole.
Mr Joseph Smoothy's Grocers Shop
and the Arrington Post Office, c1900. Now a Grade 2 Listed Building [Listing].
The 1891 Census for Arrington, Cambridgeshire.
Reference: Ref. RG13/1521 (with acknowledgement to the
Public Record Office)
Date of Census:5 April 1891
There is a national Census every ten years when
the year ends in a one. This page details the population of the Parish
of Arrington on the night of 5 April 1891 (the list includes children and visitors
from outside the parish in temporary residence within Arrington on the night
of the census).
The population of the Parish of Arrington on the night of the 1891 Census was: 215.
My thanks and acknowledgements to the 'census team' who provided the documentation and who typed and checked the various page transcripts back in 2002/2003. Particular thanks to Mike Giddings, Susan Giddings, Alexandra Morton and John Parkins for all their help, assistance and encouragement. Any errors are probably mine.
Columns (left to right):
1. Name.
2. Relation to Head of Household.
3. Married, Widow, Widowed or Unmarried (18 years and
over).
4. Age.
5. Occupation.
6. Place of Birth.
The census schedule does not relate to modern postal addresses. I have provided the modern postal address if known.
[Information, notes and comments additional to the 1891 Census are generally shown italicised within square brackets]
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[1] The 1881 Arrington Census is fully rebuilt. [2] The two 1891 pages are being rebuilt after their transfer to the new website. The basic listings will remain available for reference during the rebuilding.
The 1891 Census for the Parish of Arrington continues from Part One:
The 1891 census [below with yellow backgrounds] started as a direct lift from my 2003 web page. I have already tidied up some of the old source code. The census information given remains valid [if somewhat untidy]. The individual entries will be re-formatted [with white background] and the page fully re-issued in due course.
[September/October 2019]
Village(Schedule 37)
Uninhabited
Inmates at the Arrington Almshouse, c1900 The Susan Countess of Hardwicke's Charity
Opposite the ceremonial gateway to Wimpole Hall stands a range of six red-brick alms-houses for 'the poor in Wimpole and Arrington', built to the design of H E Kendall in 1846 for the Countess of Hardwicke. Lady Hardwicke supported the alms-houses and gave a weekly allowance to the inmates, specified to be 'two married couples and four single women (preferably widows), who were to have lived in Wimpole or Arrington for at least seven years' and unable to maintain themselves.
The charity and the almshouses are still active today.
"Before each service the Sunday School was held in the Chicheley Chapel.
It largely consisted in rote work. As his coadjutor in this my father
had an Arrington man, John Charters; he was a Wesleyan, and sometimes
had field preachings in the meadow behind his cottage under Arrington
hill. He was a good and religious man, a blacksmith by trade. He had charge
of the boys on the benches in the central passage during service. I see
him now in his brown velveteen, with finger ever ready to slip between
the pages of his large brown Prayer Book, the more effectually to swing
it against some mischievous head.
"One summer afternoon from his eyrie in the pulpit, my father saw two
tramps creeping barefoot past the church to make an inroad on the rectory.
He signalled to John Charters to go out and keep guard. And he signalled
again and again. Each signal was misinterpreted as a call to exercise
discipline on his charges. John's Prayer Book played about their
heads, as Samson's jawbone upon the men of Lehi. His pathway was
strewn with weeping, groaning boyhood. From that day John was dubbed 'the
boy banger'."
[1] The 1881 Wimpole Census is fully rebuilt as are the three 'New Orwell' pages.
[2] Following a parish boundary change in April 1999, much of the area of Orwell on the Cambridge Road, previously known as 'New Orwell', is now part of the modern-day Parish of Wimpole. [3] These pages are being rebuilt after their transfer to the new website. The basic listings remain available for reference during the rebuilding.
[1] Completed pages.
[2] Following a parish boundary change in April 1999, much of the area of Orwell on the Cambridge Road, previously known as 'New Orwell', is now part of the modern-day Parish of Wimpole. [3] These pages are being rebuilt after their transfer to the new website. The basic listings remain available for reference during the rebuilding.
Arrington: Ermine Street and 'The Hardwicke Arms' c1920 [From an early postcard image in my collection]
Crow End Cottages, Arrington Hill, Ermine Way, c1905 [From an early postcard image in my collection]
