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16 Ainsworth Street
16 Ainsworth Street
Number 16 is one of a terrace of seven houses on the east side of Ainsworth Street.
1881 census
Robert Topper, head, 33, boilermaker on GER, b. Bristol
Sarah A Topper, wife, 28, b. Potton, Bedfordshire
Robert Topper, son, 9, scholar, b. Potton, Bedfordshire
Alfred Topper, son, 7, scholar, b. Bromley by Bow, London
1891 census
Edward Hulyer, head, 25, mineral water maker & hawker, b. Cambridge
Mary Ann H Hulyer, wife, 27, b. Cambridge
Charles E H Hulyer, son, 4, b. Cambridge
Thomas H Hulyer, son, 2, b. Cambridge
Edward Hulyer gives his occupation as ‘mineral water maker & hawker’, meaning that he sold the water on the street. He can be found on the 1881 Census living with his father and stepmother at 98 York Street.
Mary Ann died in June 1893 and Edward remarried later that year. Edward and his new wife Ellen (née Tarrant) moved to 6 Stone Terrace on Stone Street by 1901.
1901 census
John R Gair, head, 35, boilerman, b. Whitby, Yorkshire
Annie Gair, wife, 35, b. Hartlepool, Durham
Ida Gair, daughter, 8, b. Cambridge
Maggie Gair, daughter, 5, b. Cambridge
1911 census
Edward Flood, head, 35, baker, b. Cambridge
Catherine Flood, wife, 37, b. Cambridgeshire
Claude Flood, son, 2, b. Cambridge
Edward Flood and Catherine Vail married in 1902. They had one child. Catherine had lived at 10 Ainsworth Street with her mother and siblings when she was in her 20s, and Electoral Registers show that she and Edward had moved back there by 1914.
1921 census
Bertie Murfet, head, 32, printer’s warehouseman, b. Cambridge
Ada Murfet, wife, 27, at home, b. Cambridge
Bertram Murfet, son, 16 months, b. Cambridge
Bertie Murfet worked for printer J B Peace at Cambridge University Press.
Sources: UK census records (1881 to 1921), UK, British Army World War I Pension Records 1914–1920
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