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53 Ainsworth Street

53 Ainsworth Street

Number 53 is one of a terrace of four houses on the west side of Ainsworth Street.

1881 census

Thomas Markham, head, 30, engine fireman on LNWR, b. Gt Linford, Buckinghamshire
Charlotte Markham, wife, 29, b. Burley, Hampshire
Emma M Markham, daughter, 5, scholar, b. Cambridge
Thomas C Markham, son, 3, b. Cambridge
Wilfred P Markham, son, 8 months, b. Cambridge
Arthur G Snoxall, lodger, 20, engine fireman on LNWR, b. Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire

1891 census

Henry C Barrett, head, 34, boiler smith, b. Cambridge
Ann E Barrett, wife, 31, b. Cambridge
Florence E Barrett, daughter, 15, scholar, b. Cambridge
Frederick A Barrett, son, 8, scholar, b. Cambridge
Sidney Charles B Barrett, son, 6, scholar, b. Cambridge
Blanch L Barrett, daughter, 4, b. Cambridge
Bert J Barrett, son, 1, b. Cambridge

The Barrett family moved here from Adam & Eve Street. Two of their children recorded in the 1881 census, Annie and Harry Charles, had died before 1891.

By 1901 the family had moved to 88 Ainsworth Street and there were two more children.

1901 census

Thomas Sadler, head, 47, farm labourer, b. Coton, Cambridgeshire
Lizzie Sadler, wife, 46, b. Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire
George Sadler, son, 23, railway engine cleaner, b. Coton, Cambridgeshire
Joseph Sadler, son, 19, gardener’s labourer, b. Coton, Cambridgeshire
Amy Sadler, daughter, 13, b. Cambridge
Dora Sadler, daughter, 10, b. Cambridge
Cissy Sadler, daughter, 8, b. Cambridge
Alfred Sadler, son, 5, b. Cambridge
May Sadler, daughter, 3, b. Cambridge
Ethel Sadler, daughter, 2, b. Cambridge

1911 census

Arthur Muncey, head, 37, builder’s labourer, b. Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire
Ada Muncey, wife, 36, b. Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire
Arthur Theodore Muncey, son, 11, b. Cambridge
Victor Lions Muncey, son, 10, b. Cambridge
Leonard George Muncey, son, 6, b. Cambridge
Stanley Owen Muncey, son, 1, b. Cambridge

Arthur Muncey married Ada Jane Endersby in 1898. They had four children. The family moved here from 18 Hooper Street.

In World War I the younger Arthur served with the Machine Gun Corps.

1921 census

Arthur Muncey, head, 47, general labourer, Cambridge Corporation, b. Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire
Ada Muncey, wife, 46, b. Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire
Arthur Muncey, son, 22, porter, Great Eastern Railway, b. Cambridge
Victor Muncey, son, 20, railway platform porter, Great Eastern Railway, b. Cambridge
Leonard Muncey, son, 17, apprentice, University Press Printers, b. Cambridge
Stanley Muncey, son, 10, b. Cambridge

Arthur Muncey was working for Cambridge Corporation.  His son Leonard was an apprentice for Cambridge University Press printing house on Trumpington Street.

The younger Arthur married Edna Gladys Doggett in 1927.  They lived at 5a York Terrace.

Victor married Grace Ellen Thompson in 1929. In 1939 they were living on Priory Road. Victor worked for Cambridge University Engineering Department.  He was an ARP volunteer in World War II.

Leonard married Dorothy May Ayres in 1931.  In 1939 they were living at 41 Holbrook Road, and Leonard was working as a printer’s compositor.

Stanley married Ethel Rose Froment in 1936.

By the time of the 1939 Register, Arthur and Ada are living here alone, and Arthur has retired.

Sources: UK census records (1881, 1891, 1901, 1911, 1921), 1939 Register, Cambridgeshire Marriages, Force War Records,

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