Joseph Huckle, whom Edward Blewett was visiting on the night of the 1871 census, was a retired farmer. In 1862 he had lent his barn in Willingham for the purposes of a large public meeting of the Baptist Missionary Society ('Town and Country News', Cambridge Independent Press, 14 June 1862, p.5, c.6). He retired from farming the following year (Cambridge Independent Press, 6 June 1863, p.4, c.5).