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68 Ainsworth Street
Two Generations of Solicitor's Clerks and a Railway Engine Driver
Number 68 is one of a terrace of four houses with front gardens on the east side of Ainsworth Street.
1881
Edwin Jeffs, 40, Solicitor’s General Clerk, b. Suffolk
Annie Jeffs, 32, b. Therfield, Hertfordshire
Frederick W Jeffs, 15, Solicitor’s General Clerk, b. Therfield, Hertfordshire
George King Jeffs, 13, News Vendor’s Assistant, b. Royston, Hertfordshire
Frank C Jeffs, 12, Scholar, b. Royston, Hertfordshire
Albert E Jeffs, 5, Scholar, b. Royston, Hertfordshire
Annie M Jeffs, 3, b. Royston, Hertfordshire
Thomas F Jeffs, 1, b. Chesterton, Cambridgeshire
1885-1913
The Electoral Register shows William Tebb living here from at least 1885.
On the 1891 Census he is recorded as a 43-year-old railway engine driver living here with his wife Eliza (43) and three of their children. Maggie (16), Harry Wright (14) and William Harold (9) are all at school. The whole family is from Nottinghamshire.
Harry becomes a Locomotive Stoker in Yorkshire.
By 1901 William is a widower, still driving railway engines and living with his daughter Maggie and son William. William is now 19 and a fitter turner.
William died in 1913.
Source – 1881, 1891, 1901 & 1911 Census, Cambridgeshire, England, Electoral Registers, Burgess Rolls and Poll Books, 1722-1966
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