11 Ainsworth Street

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Number 11 is one of a terrace of four houses on the west side of Ainsworth Street.

1881 census

William Lanham, head, 65, house painter, b. Cambridge
Rebecca Lanham, wife, 65, b. West Wickham, Cambridgeshire
Lucy Lanham, daughter, 39, dressmaker, b. Cambridge
Edmund J Lanham, son, 31, baker, b. Cambridge
Walter Lanham, son, 26, printer, b. Cambridge
Harry Lanham, grandson, 3, b. Cambridge

William Lanham and Rebecca Webb married at St Andrew the Less on 28 July 1839. He was the son of a painter and she was the daughter of a brickmaker.

1891 census

William Lanham, head, 75, painter, b. Cambridge
Rebecca Lanham, wife, 75, b. West Wickham, Cambridgeshire
Lucy Lanham, daughter, 49, dressmaker, b. Cambridge
Edmund Lanham, son, 42, baker, b. Cambridge
Harry Lanham, grandson, 13, scholar, b. Grantchester, Cambridgeshire

The 1891 Census was taken on 5 April. William died shortly afterwards and was buried at St Andrew the Less on 22 April 1891.

1901 census

Henry Ward, head, 34, blacksmith, worker, b. Hardwick, Cambridgeshire

Henry Ward married Emma Rebecca Royston in 1902 and they had two children, George and Horace. Henry and Emma are buried in Mill Road Cemetery.

1911 census

Thomas Herbert Clarke, head, 40, general labourer, pumping station, b. Peterborough, Northamptonshire
Florence Ellen Clarke, wife, 38, b. Peterborough, Northamptonshire
John Thomas Clarke, son, 17, compositor, newspaper office, b. Peterborough, Northamptonshire
Herbert Tabor Clarke, son, 13, b. Peterborough, Northamptonshire
Doris Gertrude Clarke, daughter, 11, b. Peterborough, Northamptonshire
Harold Willie Clarke, son, 9, b. Peterborough, Northamptonshire

Thomas Clarke and his wife Florence (née Tabor) had been married for 18 years. In 1912 another son, Stanley Bernard, was born. He lived at 3 Ainsworth Street in the 1950s and 1960s.

1921 census

Sidney M Tebbit, head, 38, baker, b. Cambridge
Theresa K Tebbit, wife, 37, home duties, b. Cambridge
Sidney S M Tebbit, son, 15, junior clerk, University Registrar, b. Cambridge
Benjamin J Clark, brother-in-law, 30, temporary ex civil police, b. Cambridge
Reginald F J Tebbit, son, 13, b. Cambridge
Doris T Tebbit, daughter, 10, b. Cambridge
William E Tebbit, son, 8, b. Cambridge

Sidney Manning Tebbit worked for bakers W W Iredale of 6 Dover Street. His son Sidney worked as a clerk for the University Registrar on Trumpington Street. Benjamin Clark, Theresa’s brother states that he is a Temporary Civil Policeman for the Cambridge Borough Police but currently ‘out of work’.

The electoral registers record Sidney Manning Tebbit living here from 1914. During the First World War he was fined for selling new bread (Cambridge Daily News, 15 Mar 1918):

BREAD TOO NEW
Cambridge Bakers Fined for Selling Under 12 Hours Old
Four Cambridge bakers were fined by the Borough magistrates this (Friday) morning for breaches of the provisions of the Bread Order, 1917, prohibiting the sale of exposure for sale of bread less than 12 hours old.
Stanley Manning Tebbit, 11 Ainsworth Street, pleaded guilty to a similar offence on March 11th, also exposing a new loaf of bread for sale.
P. C. Brooks said that at about 11.55 a.m. he saw defendant deliver a loaf of bread from a handcart in Gold Street, and on examining the bread in the cart found it new and hot.
Defendant said he had been laid up since the 25th February and had been unable to make his own stuff. He was in the business alone.
The Mayor: That bears out what I said before that you people ought to amalgamate.
Defendant: I think that when a man is fighting and another is left to carry on the business, he should be allowed to try to keep the business together for him.
The Mayor said Morley, Summerlin and Tebbit would be fined £1 each and Mrs Iredale 10s., the fines in each case to include costs. It was partly the fault of the customers who insisted on having the bread brought whether it was new or old. The bakers must be careful to observe the regulations, and he would advise them to consider the question of amalgamation.

By 1939 the family were living on Kimberley Road, and Sidney was now a master baker. They had taken in an evacuee, also named Sidney.

There were still Tebbits at 11 Ainsworth Street: Sidney’s younger brother Ernest Edward Tebbit and his wife Daisy. Ernest was a baker’s assistant. He appears on the Electoral Register at this address until the public record ends in 1966.

Sources: UK census records (1881 to 1921), 1939 Register, Cambridgeshire Marriages, National Burial Index For England & Wales, England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915, Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge Daily News, Cambridgeshire Electoral Registers, Burgess Rolls and Poll Books (1722-1966),

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