2 Ainsworth Street, Ainsworth House

Ainsworth House

Ainsworth House is a double-fronted property on the east side of Ainsworth Steet opposite the Geldart pub.

In 1881, 2 Ainsworth Street was a day nursery, and there is no census entry.

1891 census

Caroline H Tranter, head, 33, parochial visitor, b. Lacolle, Canada
Eva H S Ball, friend, 29, housekeeper, b. Islington, London
Lucy Prizeman, boarder, 23, elementary teacher, b. Cawsand, Devon

Caroline and Eva subsequently left Cambridge and became nurses in Banstead.

1901 census

Fanny E Sewell, head, 47, preacher mission woman, b. Snenton, Nottinghamshire
Annie E Pratt, servant, 28, general domestic servant, b. Cambridge

Fanny Elizabeth Sewell gave her occupation as ‘teacher of music’ in the 1871 and 1881 Census.

Fanny died in 1908 aged 54, still living at 2 Ainsworth Street. She was buried at St Benedict’s on 26 March 1908.

1911 census

Annie Jones, head, single, 49, private means, b. Pimlico, London
Jane Martha Jones, sister, single, 42, private means, b. Meadvale, Surrey

In 1901 Jane Jones was boarding in Islington with two other women all listed as ‘deaconess’.

1921 census

Thomas Albert Tingey, head, 37, van man, Cambridge Cooperative Society, b. Cambridge
Florence Annie Tingey, wife, 44, b. Cambridge
John Thomas Tingey, son, 13, b. Cambridge
Barbara Ellen Tingey, daughter, 11, b. Cambridge
Jack Tingey, son, 7, b. Cambridge
Joseph Tingey, son, 2, b. Cambridge
Jane Marshall, boarder, 70, no occupation, b. Glemsford, Suffolk
Florence Marshall, boarder, 38, bedmaker, D Tait, Ridley Hall, b. Hadleigh, Suffolk
Emma Marshall, visitor, 65, household duties, b. Glemsford, Suffolk
Louie Weaver, visitor, 6, b. Old Ford Road, London
Sarah Weaver, visitor, 32, house duties, b. Hoxton, London

The Tingey family moved here from 7 Ainsworth Street. The 1918 Electoral Register shows Thomas an ‘absent voter / Naval or military voter’. He served in the Army and worked with horses for the Co-op.*

The 1921 census records Thomas as being a van man for the Cambridge Cooperative Society at 13 Burleigh Street.

Boarder Florence Marshall was a bedmaker for Dr Tait at Ridley Hall.

The Tingeys moved to 27 Ainsworth Street in 1926.

1939 register

Milicent I Ladds, b. 24 May 1916, married, unpaid housework
Elizabeth F Mills, b. 5 Jan 1867, widowed, retired
Edward A Ladds, b. 23 Jul 1875, widowed, retired painter
Two children (closed records)

Edward Ladds appears in the Electoral Register for 1926 as the householder at no. 2, and was living there with his wife Priscilla. The family had previously lived at 15 Ainsworth Street in 1901 and at 20 Stone Street in 1911. They had two sons, George and Albert.

Priscilla died in 1937, after which Edward continued living at no. 2 with his son Albert and daughter-in-law Millicent.

On 18 November 1939 baby Beryl Grace Priscilla Ladds died suddenly. The funeral was reported in the Cambridge Daily News.

Edward Ladds died in 1958.

Sources: UK census records (1881 to 1911), General Register Office birth, marriage and death indexes (1837 onwards), the 1939 England and Wales Register, and Cambridgeshire, England, Electoral Registers, Burgess Rolls and Poll Books (1918–1955), Cambridge Daily News 25 November 1939

*Remembered by grandson.