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85 Ainsworth Street
85 Ainsworth Street
This property and no. 83 have been demolished and are now the car park and cut through to Kerridge Close.
1881 census
James Newton, head, 39, butcher, b. Cambridge
Mary Newton, wife, 40, b. Hemingford, Huntingdonshire
Elizabeth Newton, daughter, 19, b. Hemingford, Huntingdonshire
Emma S Newton, daughter, 13, scholar, b. Cambridge
William J Newton, son, 9, scholar, b. Cambridge
Hephzibah Newton, daughter, 7, scholar, b. Cambridge
Laura Newton, daughter, 2, b. Cambridge
Adelaide Smith, visitor, married, 37, b. Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire
Adelaide Smith, their visitor, subsequently lived next door at 83 Ainsworth Street. Her husband George, just like the Newtons, was from Hemingford in Huntingdonshire, and it is possible these two families were related.
1891 census
James Newton, head, 49, butcher, b. Cambridge
Mary Newton, wife, 50, b. Hemingford, Huntingdonshire
Elizabeth Newton, daughter, 29, b. Hemingford, Huntingdonshire
Emma Newton, daughter, 22, b. Cambridge
Hephzibah Newton, daughter, 16, b. Cambridge
Laura Newton, daughter, 12, b. Cambridge
Unusually, no occupation has been given for the adult children, so perhaps they are all helping their father with the butchery business.
1901 census
Frederick Lucock, head, 33, railway engine driver, b. Cambridge
Margaret Lucock, wife, 32, b. Cambridge
1911 census
William Elijah White, head, 29, refreshment room waiter, Great Eastern Railway, b. Cambridge
Alice Maud White, wife, 26, b. Cambridge
May White, daughter, 3, b. Cambridge
Lily White, daughter, 2, b. Cambridge
Bert Edward White, son, 3 months, b. Cambridge
William and Alice White had been married for four years and had three children.
1921 census
William Elijah White, head, 39, waiter, Gt Eastern Railway Co, b. Cambridge
Alice Maud White, wife, 37, home duty, b. Cambridge
May White, daughter, 13, b. Cambridge
Lily White, daughter, 12, b. Cambridge
Bert Edward White, son, 10, b. Cambridge
Alice White, daughter, 8, b. Cambridge
Joan White, daughter, 2, b. Cambridge
William Elijah White worked as a waiter in a railway refreshment room, and in the 1921 census he states that his place of work is Cambridge Station.
Source: 1881–1921 Census.
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