Notes for: Joanna Crane
Several newspaper advertisements between 1834 and 1844 refer to Miss Crane and her Ladies' Seminary. For example:
Huntingdon, Bedford & Peterborough Gazette, 20 Sep 1834. Miss Crane, late of Bottisham, takes this opportunity of informing her Friends and the Public in general that she purposes opening a Seminary for Young Ladies in the pleasant village of Trumpington, on Wednesday, October the 1st, where she hopes by assiduity and attention to the comfort and improvement of her pupils to merit a portion of their kind patronage. . . Miss Crane, in taking leave of her Friends at Bottisham, begs most respectfully to return them her sincere thanks for their past favors, and earnestly solicits a continuance of the same.
Cambridge Independent Press, 23 Sep 1843. Two Modern well-built Cottage Residences, with Gardens, Trumpington, to be sold by auction, by Eliot Smith and Son.
On Wednesday, September 27th, 1843, at seven o'clock in the evening, at the Green Man public-house, Trumpington;
Lot 1. A Modern and substantially-built Brick and Slate Dwelling-house, desirably situate opposite the church, as now occupied by Miss Crane, as a ladies' seminary, containing, on the ground floor, two excellent sitting-rooms and kitchen, and cellar under, one sitting-room, and three cheerful bedrooms on the one pair, and three attics over, with a garden behind, surrounded by a brick wall, and protected from the road by a neat palisade fence.
Lot 2. The adjoining Dwelling-house, also recently erected, containing two excellent parlours below, with kitchen and cellar under, large keeping-room, and two cheerful bedrooms on the one pair, and three good attics over, with garden behind. To this lot there is a convenient yard, approached by folding gates, and stable erected thereon.
The above are situate in the most pleasant part of the village, having good views in front and behind, and the distance from Cambridge being within an easy walk, makes them most desirable to parties seeking a quiet country residence.
Copyhold of the Manor of Arnolds, and subject to a quit-rent of --. Land-Tax.
Further particulars may be had of Messrs Twiss and Marshall, solicitors, or of Elliot Smith and Son, Cambridge.
Cambridge Independent Press, 6 Jan 1844. Miss Crane . . . begs to inform them (those friends who have hitherto favoured her with their patronage) she has recently removed to the eligible and commodious premises formerly occupied by the late Mr Cumming.
Then, from Cambridge Independent Press, 24 Apr 1847: On the night of Thursday week, the house of Miss Crane, of Trumpington, was broken into, and a quantity of linen, four rosewood work-boxes, a metal teapot, a number of tea-spoons, some of which were silver, and other metal, were stolen therefrom. The thieves effected their entrance by forcing open a window.
And: Cambridge Independent Press 30 Jun 1849:
Neat Residence, Garden, and Four Acres of Meadow Land, TRUMPINGTON,
TO BE LET, with Possession at Michaelmas next.
The House is situate near the entrance to the Village, and contains two parlours, 7 bed-rooms, 2 kitchens, cellar, walled-in garden, granary, barn, and Two Closes adjoining, now in the occupation of Miss Crane.
Apply to Messrs. PEED, solicitors; or to WENTWORTH and SON, auctioneers, valuers, and estate-agents, opposite Trinity College, Cambridge.