108 (2) Ainsworth Street, Cambridge

108 Ainsworth Street

Number 108 is one of a terrace of five houses on the east side of Ainsworth Street, built around 1870.

1871 census for households 229, 230 and 231*

Henry E Rolls, head, 24, railway servant, b. Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire
Emma B Rolls, wife, 22, b. Cambridge
Hellen Rolls, sister, 12, scholar, b. Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire
George Barrett, lodger, 20, railway servant, b. Cambridge

*In 1871 Ainsworth Street was not yet numbered. Identification of houses is tentative.

1878 (No. 2 from Spaldings)

Robert Prime, guard

1881 census

Robert Prime, head, 29, bootmaker, b. Halesworth, Suffolk
Elizabeth Prime, wife, 29, bootbinder, b. Bramfield, Suffolk
Geo. E Prime, son, 6, scholar, b. Cambridge
Florence E Prime, daughter, 4, b. Cambridge

1891 census

Robt C Prime, head, 39, shoe maker, b. Halesworth, Suffolk
Elizth Prime, wife, 39, b. Bramfield, Suffolk
Geo. E Prime, son, 16, solicitor’s clerk, b. Cambridge
Florence E Prime, daughter, 14, b. Cambridge
George Puttock, father-in-law, 76, gardener, b. Bramfield, Suffolk

1901 census

Robert C Prime, head, 49, paralysed, b. Halesworth, Suffolk
Elizabeth Prime, wife, 49, b. Bramford, Suffolk
Florence Prime, daughter, 24, b. Cambridge

The Prime family are recorded as living at 108 Ainsworth Street between 1881 and 1901. Robert Prime was a boot and shoe maker, and in the early years Elizabeth worked as a bootbinder.  In 1891 their son George Ernest was working as a solicitor’s clerk. Elizabeth’s father George Puttock, a gardener, was living with them.

By 1901 George Prime was living in London, employed as a solicitor’s clerk.  His parents and sister were still living at 108 Ainsworth Street.  However, the census records Robert as being paralysed.  He died in 1902. Elizabeth and Florence joined George in London, and show up on the 1911 census living with him in Plumstead.

1911 census

Henry Whybrow, head, 49, platelayer, Great Eastern Railway, b. Cambridge
Susanah Elizabeth Whybrow, wife, 49, b. Cambridge
Charles Edward Whybrow, son, 25, general smith for ironmonger, b. Cambridge
Lizzie Whybrow, daughter, 23, dressmaker, b. Cambridge
Married 27 years, 2 children

1921 census

Henry Whybrow, head, 60, platelayer, Great Eastern Railway, b. Cambridge
Mary Ann Whybrow, wife, 62, household duties, at home, b. Cambridge

Source: 1871–1921 England Census.