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21 Ainsworth Street
21 Ainsworth Street
Number 21 is one of a terrace of the three houses on the west side of Ainsworth Street.
1881 census
George Stevens, head, married, 28, railway signalman, b. Bladlaw, Buckinghamshire
1891 census
Albert Whye, head, 25, railway porter, b. Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire
Ellen L Whye, wife, 26, b. St Helena
Gladys M Whye, daughter, 2 months, b. Cambridge
William Perkins, lodger, 20, lawyer’s clerk, b. Arthingworth, Northamptonshire
Ellen Louisa Whye (née Goodenough) was born in St Helena. The 1881 Census says that she was born ‘on the sea’, and her elder brother was born in Saugor, India. She is buried in Mill Road Cemetery.
1901 census
James Kefford, head, 26, mineral water maker, b. Trumpington, Cambridgeshire
Alice Kefford, wife, 26, b. Quy, Cambridgeshire
1911 census
Henry Joseph Fairweather, head, 31, baker, b. Cambridge
Rose Mabel Fairweather, wife, 28, b. Cambridge
Ivy Rose Fairweather, daughter, 7, b. Cambridge
Henry and Rose Fairweather had been married for nine years and had one child.
1921 census
Henry Howlett, head, 45, general labourer, Cambridge Corporation, b. Cambridge
Charlette Elizabeth Howlett, wife, 41, home duties, b. Cambridge
Henry Howlett worked for Cambridge Corporation’s ‘Destructive Department’, on Riverside. This was very likely the waste destructor furnaces at Cheddar’s Lane Pumping Station, now Cambridge Museum of Technology. Household waste was burnt to raise steam for the engines that pumped sewage to the town’s sewage farm at Milton.
Sources: UK census records (1881 to 1921), Mill Road Cemetery
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