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8 Ainsworth Street
8 Ainsworth Street
Number 8 is one of a terrace of three houses on the east side of Ainsworth Street.
1881 census
Edward A Ingrey, head, 22, baker, b. Bedfordshire
Mary A Ingrey, wife, 26, b. Stotfold, Norfolk
Ethel E Ingrey, daughter, 1, b. Cambridge
Edward Ambrose Ingrey and his wife Mary were to have two more children born in Cambridge, and they then moved to Bedford by 1884. Edward was declared bankrupt in 1887. In 1889 their eldest son William drowned when he fell into a river.
In 1900 Edward was tried at Shire Hall Court in Bedford for assaulting his daughter Florrie, then aged 15, a ‘pleasant little lass’ (Bedfordshire Mercury, 9 Feb 1900). He was sentenced to 15 months’ hard labour. He had been in trouble with the law on various occasions prior to this: obtaining potatoes under false pretences and obtaining credit by fraud, both in 1899.
He was back in court again in November 1901 to show cause as to why he wasn’t contributing towards maintenance of his son in the Reformatory. Edward agreed to give a shilling a week.
Mary Ingrey died in 1923, Edward in 1934.
1891 census
Alfred Parren, head, 27, dairyman & grocer, b. Earith, Huntingdonshire
Priscilla Parren, wife, 27, assisting her husband, b. Willingham, Cambridgeshire
Bertram W Parren, son, 1, b. Cambridge
Alfred Parren and Priscilla Harradine were married in 1886.
1901 census
Alfred Parren, head, 37, dairyman, b. Earith, Huntingdonshire
Priscilla Parren, wife, 37, b. Willingham, Cambridgeshire
Bertram Parren, son, 11, b. Cambridge
1911 census
Alfred Parren, head, 47, dairyman, b. Earith, Huntingdonshire
Priscilla Parren, wife, 47, b. Willingham, Cambridgeshire
Bertram Parren, son, 21, working in the business, b. Cambridge
William Hughes, visitor, married, 56, Baptist minister, b. Soham, Cambridgeshire
The Census records that they had originally had two children, but one had died.
In 1916 Bertram joined the Suffolk Regiment, Machine Gun Corps, giving his address as 8 Ainsworth Street. In 1917 he married Daisy Murkin and their address was in Willis Road.
1921 census
Alfred Parren, head, 57, dairyman, employer, at home, b. Earith, Huntingdonshire
Priscilla Parren, wife, 57, home duties, b. Earith Bridge, Cambridgeshire
1939 register
Bertram William Parren, b. 23 June 1889, dairyman
Daisy M Parren, b. 6 Oct 1893, unpaid domestic duties
Audrey M Parren, b. 20 Aug 1921, typist
Marjorie D Parren, b. 31 Mar 1924, at school
Alfred and Priscilla had moved to Marshall Road by 1939. Alfred Parren died in 1943. His probate record states that he is of 82 Ainsworth Street, but died on 22 April at 8 Ainsworth Street. Priscilla died in 1944.
Bertram Parren died in February 1953, his address given as 8 Ainsworth Street.
Sources: UK census records (1881 to 1921), General Register Office birth, marriage and death indexes (1837 onwards), the 1939 England and Wales Register, A Calendar of Prisoners Tried at The Assizes (England & Wales, Crime, Prisons & Punishment, 1770-1935), Cambridge Independent Press (24 December 1887), Bedford Record (28 December 1889), Bedfordshire Mercury (28 July 1899 & 18 August 1899) and the National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995
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