33 Ainsworth Street, Cambridge

33 Ainsworth Street

Number 33 is one of a terrace of four houses standing on the west side of Ainsworth Street.

1881 census

Phillip Banyard, head, 32, builder employing 4 men, b. Cherryhinton
Lucy Banyard, wife, 32, b. Dover Kent
Maude M J Banyard, daughter, 7, scholar, b. Cambridge
George P Banyard, son, 1, b. Cambridge

The Electoral Register tells us that the Banyard family lived here from 1880 to 1884. In 1891 they were living at 163 Gwydir Street, and in 1901 at 23 Gwydir Street.

1891 census

Dennis Smith, head, 33, coal porter, b. Barton, Cambridgeshire
Kate Smith, wife, 30, b. Cambridge
Sidney Smith, son, 8, scholar, b. Cambridge
Kate Smith, daughter, 7, scholar, b. Cambridge
Peter Creek, lodger, 17, general labourer, b. Comberton, Cambridgeshire

1901 census

Alfred Lyon, head, 33, iron moulder, b. Woodbridge, Suffolk
Jessie Lyon, wife, 30, b. Hauxton, Cambridgeshire
Bernice Lyon, daughter, 6, b. Cambridge
Standley Lyon, son, 4, b. Cambridge
Horace Lyon, son, 1 month, b. Cambridge
Dorothy Clifton, visitor, 18, b. Stapleford, Cambridgeshire

1911 census

Alfred Lyon, head, 45, house painter for brewery, b. Cambridge
Jessie Lyon, wife, 40, b. Hauxton, Cambridgeshire
Bernice Lyon, daughter, 16, domestic, at home, b. Cambridge
Standley Lyon, son, 14, school, b. Cambridge
Doris Lyon, daughter, 8, school, b. Cambridge
Jessie Lyon, daughter, 7, school, b. Cambridge
Percy Lyon, son, 5, b. Cambridge
Alfred Lyon, son, 2, b. Cambridge
Horace Lyon, son, 1, b. Cambridge

This time Alfred Lyon has written that he was born in Cambridge, rather than Suffolk.

Alfred and Jessie Lyon had been married for 17 years.  They had had eleven children, four of whom had died.

1921 census

Alfred A Lyon, head, married, 55, painter & decorator, Star Brewery, b. Cambridge
Stanley Lyon, son, 24, carpenter & joiner, Stewart’s & Co Contractors, b. Cambridge
Doris M Lyon, daughter, 18, machinist tailor, Suttle Tailor, b. Cambridge
Jessie S Lyon, daughter, 17, general domestic servant, private, b. Cambridge
Percy Lyon, son, 15, news paper boy, Rossendale & Clamp Newsagents, b. Cambridge
Alfred Lyon, son, 12, b. Cambridge

Alfred Lyon senior worked for Star Brewery on Newmarket Road. Stanley worked for Stewart’s & Co Contractors on Coe Fen Lane. Doris worked for Suttle Tailors on Fitzroy Street. Percy worked for Rossendale & Clamp Newsagents on Fitzroy Street.

On census night, Jessie Lyon senior was staying in Hauxton with her widowed brother and elderly mother – perhaps as a carer to her mother.

Sources: UK census records (1881 to 1921), Register for 1914–1915 Polling District No.8 Petersfield Ward