Cissie Morgan (nee Andrew’s) - Cherry Hinton people profiles
Cissie Morgan (née Andrews)
1894 - 1954
Cissie Morgan lived at 191 High Street, Cherry Hinton, and became a well-known and much-loved member of the community following her marriage to Charles Edward Morgan on 2 August 1915.
A devoted member of village life, Cissie played an active role in several local organisations. She was involved with the Cherry Hinton Women’s Institute and the Cherry Hinton branch of the British Legion, which she represented at county level. Her leadership was recognised in her appointments as Chairman and later President of the village Women’s Section of the British Legion.
Cissie was also a committed member of the Cherry Hinton Baptist Church on Fishers Lane, where she sang in the choir and taught in the Sunday School.
Always ready to lend a hand, she gave her time generously to charitable appeals and community collections.
Through the Women’s Voluntary Service (W.V.S.), she founded and led the Cherry Hinton Over 60s Club, where her warmth, energy, and compassion earned her the respect and affection of all who knew her - especially the older residents she so devotedly served.
We have named the one-to-one meeting room in the newly built Cherry Hinton Hub after Cissie Morgan. You will be able to see a framed profile about her by the door to this room.
You can read more about the Cherry Hinton Hub HERE
This obituary from the newspaper gives a real sense of how much Cissie had done for the village and how much she meant to everyone.
Cambridge Daily News - Friday 27th August 1954 (BNP)
and from the funeral write up in the newspaper:
Cambridge Daily News - Saturday 4th September 1954 (BNA)
Left-Right: Margaret Fleet (nee Morgan) holding baby Elizabeth Fleet. John Morgan, Cissie Morgan and Charles Morgan. In back garden of 191 High Street, Cherry Hinton.
Charles Edward Morgan and Cissie May Morgan (nee Andrews)
Both photographs above were supplied by Cissie’s grandaughter Catherine Nelson and used with her permission.
More information about Cissie and her life in Cherry Hinton:
Cambridge Daily News - Thursday 22nd April 1954
Cissey is sitting to the left hand of the Mayoress in the picture above.
Cambridge Daily News - Monday 26th April 1954 (BNA)
1894
Cissie was born on 28th April 1893 in Great Shelford to parents Walter Arthur Andrews (1868-1946) and Elizabeth ‘Eliza’ Dean (1871-1951).
Cissie May Andrews, (England and Wales Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915)
1901
Age 7, she is living with her parents and siblings on Granham’s Road in Great Shelford, where her father is a corn merchants foreman. They are all born in Great Shelford. (1901 Census)
Cissie Andrews on the 1901 Census
1911
Cissie aged 19 worked as a general domestic servant for the Mowlam family, in a large house in Church Street, Little Shelford (1911 Census).
Cissie Andrews on the 1911 Census
1915
Cissie gets married to Charles Edward Morgan (1886-1976).
Cissie Andrews 1915 Spouse Charles E Morgan (England and Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915)
1921
The family are living on the High Street, Cherry Hinton. She is 28 years old and a married housewife, living with her husband Charles Edward aged 34 born in Cherry Hinton, a house decorator and employer. her daughter Margaret Ruth Irene Morgan is 1 and a half and her son Bernard Robert Arthur Morgan is under one month old. Both children born in Cherry Hinton. Her sister-in-law, Grace Rule aged 27 from Fulbourn is visiting (1921 Census)
Cissie Morgan on 1921 Census
1932-33
Lived at Claremont, High Street Cherry Hinton.
Cissie Morgan at Claremont, High Street, Cherry Hinton 1932-33 (Cambs Electoral Registers, Burgess Rolls and Poll Books 1722-1966)
1939
On the 1939 Register, the family are living on the High Street, [at 191] Charles is still a house decorator but now also air raid warden. They have perhaps 4 lodgers and two of their children there - Bernard and John (b.1932)
1939 England and Wales Register for Cissie Morgan
1949
The family still living at 191 Cherry Hinton High Street. (*the house numbers on the High Street have changed since)
1950
Cambridge Independent Press - Friday 13th January 1950 (BNA)
1976
Cissie’s husband Charles Morgan lived on in Cherry Hinton until his death 17th Oct 1976, at 103 High Street, Cherry Hinton.
(England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995)
Cissie and Charles Morgan are buried together in St Andrew’s churchyard Cherry Hinton.