Alice was eight years old at the time of the 1891 census. Her birth year is shown as 1883. The Anable family were living at Long Lane, Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire. Long Lane does not appear on modern maps, but may refer to the road called Scotland Road today.

Alice's father Samuel is shown as a bricklayer. He was 42 years old. Alice's mother Lydia was 35 years old.

Alice was the third of five children: Francis was 12, William was 11, Percy was 6 and Susan was two weeks old.

The census records that Alice was born at Dry Drayton in Cambridgeshire. The transcript for the entry is here.

Alice was nineteen years old at the time of the 1901 census. Her surname is misspelt as 'Anabel'. She was living in the lodging house of Mary Cullum at 10 Peas Hill, Cambridge. This is in the centre of Cambridge, leading from the Market Place to Corn Exchange Street.

Alice is shown as a domestic servant. She was single in 1901.

Mary Cullum was a widow, and had two daughters living with her, Gertrude aged 27 and Janet aged 25. There was one other domestic servant living in the house, Julia Marshall aged 16.

The census records that Alice was born at Dry Drayton in Cambridgeshire. The transcript for the entry is here.

Anabel's father Samuel was fifty years old at the time of the 1901 census. His birth year is shown as 1851. The Anable family were living at Pettits Lane, Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire. The road still exists today, off of the village High Street.

Samuel is shown as a bricklayer. His wife Lydia is 46 years old, and her birth year is given as 1855.

Samuel had three children living at home at the time of the 1891 census. Percy was 16 and is shown as a bricklayer's labourer, Susan was 10, and Henry Thomas, or 'Harry', was 4. Francis, William and my great-grandmother Alice had already left home.

The census records that Samuel was born at Dry Drayton in Cambridgeshire, as were all the family. The transcript for their entry is here.

Alice was thirty years old at the time of the 1911 census. The Reynolds family were living at Valley Farm, West Wratting, Cambridgeshire, actually on the edge of the parish and nearer to the village of Fulbourn, today a suburb of Cambridge. Valley Farm had been built as a stables, but today is part of a huge agri-business concern. The four lanes of the A11 cut into the edge of the farm.

Alice's husband Thomas is shown as a horse keeper, aged 32. They had been married for 7 years.

Alice had four children at the time of the 1911 census: my grandmother Winifred was 7, Cecilia was 5, Earnest 4 and Abbgale 1. I think I may have met my grandmother's sister Cecilia, or 'Ciss', on one occasion.

Alice was born at Dry Drayton in Cambridgeshire. Winifred, Cecilia and Earnest were also born in Dry Drayton, Abbgale was born at West Wratting. Thomas had been born at Duxford in Cambridgeshire. I met Alice in the last years of her life. The transcript for their entry is here.

Alice's father Samuel was sixty-one years old at the time of the 1911 census. The Anable family were living at Pettits Lane, Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire, as they had been at the time of the 1901 census. The road still exists today, off of the village High Street.

Samuel is shown as a bricklayer general. His wife Lydia is 56 years old, and they had been married for 36 years.

Samuel had just one child living at home at the time of the 1911 census. Henry Thomas or 'Harry' was 14, and is shown as a labourer. Five older children had now left home. At the age of 20, Harry would be killed on the first day of the Somme, and is remembered among the Missing on the Thiepval memorial, by which time Samuel's wife Lydia would be a widow. The transcript for the entry is here.