This entry is to serve as a temporary holding place for the Ainsworth family while it is sorted out who was a member of the prominent Oakland dynasty, and who just happened to have the same last name.

Here below are all the Ainsworths from the favorite bedtime reader, the 1887 Oakland Directory ... perhaps a strike-through should be placed on those that turn out not to be direct relatives. 

  1. Ainsworth, Alfred G., employe S P Co, residence 1265 West Street
  2. Ainsworth, Alfred G, real estate, residence 852 Eighteenth Street ?
  3. Ainsworth, Bros. (E. S. and D. S.), groceries, NE corner Market Street and Fourteenth Street
  4. Ainsworth, D. S. (Ainsworth Bros.) residence 825 Seventeenth Street
  5. Ainsworth, E. S. (Ainsworth Bros.) residence 825 Seventeenth Street
  6. Ainsworth, E. S., special officer, residence 1701 Twelfth Street
  7. Ainsworth, George, residence 852 Forty-eighth Street
  8. Ainsworth, George J., residence Vernon Avenue near Pagoda Hill
  9. Ainsworth, G. L., brakeman S P Co, residence 852 Eighteenth Street
  10. Ainsworth, G. R. R., (H. S. & G. R. R. Ainsworth) residence 1701 Twelfth Street
  11. Ainsworth, H. S., (H. S. & G. R. R. Ainsworth) residence 1701 Twelfth Street
  12. Ainsworth, H. S. & G. R. R., groceries and varieties, 1701 Twelfth Street
  13. Ainsworth, John, student University, residence Vernon Avenue near Pagoda Hill
  14. Ainsworth, John, lumber surveyor, residence 1466 Fifth Street
  15. Ainsworth, John C., capitalist, residence Vernon Avenue near Pagoda Hill
  16. Ainsworth, Wm P., clerk Stocker & Schramm, residence 852 Eighteenth Street ?