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57 Ainsworth Street

57 Ainsworth Street

Number 57 is a single property standing at the end of a terrace on the west side of Ainsworth Street.

1881 census

Henry Dellow, head, 36, grocer, b. Croydon, Essex
Harriet Dellow, wife, 40, b. Croydon, Essex
Henry Dellow, son, 6, scholar, b. Cambridge

The Dellow family lived at 70 Ainsworth Street in 1891. They are buried in Mill Road Cemetery.

1891 census

William Doe, head, 27, dealer in shop, b. Bury St Edmunds
Sarah Doe, wife, 30, b. Ipswich
Ada Doe, daughter, 7, scholar, b. Ipswich
William Doe, son, 3, b. Sawston, Cambridgeshire
Frederick Doe, son, 1, b. Cambridge

William and Sarah Doe are buried in St Andrew’s churchyard in Cherry Hinton.

1901 census

Alfred J Horobin, head, 62, sugar boiler, own account, at home, b. Cambridge
Naomi A Horobin, wife, 40, b. Willingham, Cambridgeshire
Alfred E Horobin, son, 15, b. Cambridge
Benjamin B Bagstaff, son, 12, b. Cambridge
Thomas F H Bagstaff, son, 10, b. Cambridge
Frank Horobin, son, 6, b. Cambridge
Tom Horobin, son, 5, b. Cambridge
Norah Horobin, daughter, 3, b. Cambridge

The Horobin family moved here from 16a Abbey Street.

When Alfred John Horobin was younger he was a Dragoon in the 5th Royal Irish Lancers.  Whilst posted in India he married Elizabeth Grey and they had at least six children. Elizabeth died in 1890.

In 1891 Alfred was declared bankrupt (Saffron Walden Weekly News, 22nd May 1891):

Horobin said he was formerly in the army, and had since been a sugar boiler in Cambridge.  He had been a publican for a short time. He had been in Cambridge some 18 years, had kept no books and had been insolvent some years.  He had never been in business anywhere else besides Cambridge.

Alfred remarried in 1893.  His second wife Naomi lost her first husband, Frederick Bagstaff, in 1892.

In 1901 Alfred and Naomi had six children living with them: Alfred’s son from his first marriage, Naomi’s two children from her first marriage, and Alfred and Naomi’s three young children.

In 1903 there was a fire at their property (Herts & Cambs Reporter & Royston Crow, 17 July 1903):

FIRE – Owing to the interference of children with matches, a fire broke out on Saturday morning at 57 Ainsworth Street, premises owned by Mrs Cubitt and occupied by Alfred John Horobin … the fire was extinguished with the loss of a wooden tiled shed … used as a sugar boiling room.  All articles destroyed were uninsured.

1911 census

Alfred John Horobin, head, 71, no occupation, b. Cambridge
Naomi Ann Horobin, wife, 50, college servant, b. Willingham
Benjamin Bert Bagstaff, boarder, single, 22, dairy man, b. Cambridge
Frank Horobin, son, 17, errand boy for drapers, b. Cambridge
Tom Horobin, son, 15, errand boy for grocers, b. Cambridge
Norah Horobin, daughter, 13, school, b. Cambridge

Alfred Horobin died in 1925, and Naomi in 1937.

1921 census

William James Bone, head, 34, steam wagon driver, b. Poplar, London
Winifred Elizabeth Bone, wife, 31, charwoman, b. Poplar, London
Winifred Irene Bone, daughter, 13, b. Poplar, London
William James Bone, son, 11, b. Poplar, London
Leonard Archibald Bone, son, 9, b. Stratford, London
Geoffrey Oswald Bone, son, 11 months, b. Cambridge
Lillian Alice Oswald, boarder, 35, single, laundress, own account, b. Poplar, London

William Bone was a steam wagon driver for Bolton Bros Furniture Removers of 40 Hills Road. Winifred Bone was a charwoman for the General Post Office Engineering Department at 24 Bateman Street.

Source: UK Census (1881–1921), Saffron Walden Weekly News, 22nd May 1891, Herts & Cambs Reporter & Royston Crow, 17 July 1903, The Edinburgh Gazette, 24th April 1891, British India Office Marriages, England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916–2007, FindAGrave.com, Mill Road Cemetery,

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