Fred Ainsworth

Fred Ainsworth is married to Jean Charlotte Morley. They are parents to James Kenneth Ainsworth. Fred was born in Wales (or Manchester) and Jean was born in Whalley Range, Manchester, England. Before retirement, he was a baker in Toronto.

Fred was the son of Henry Edward Ainsworth and Elizabeth Caroline ('Clara') Roberts.

His family was living in Aspul, (a suburb of Wigan, Lancashire) at the time of his birth. (His parents differed as to what his named should be: he was registered his mother as Fred, in Manchester, and his father tried to reg. him as Jimmy in Ashton, but it was too late. He was called Jimmy by his father and Fred by his mother, all of their lives.)

Fred left school when he was 14 and went to night school till he was 32. He learned to be a rigger (working with air freight) in the Air Force, during WWII. He lost three fingers in a baking accident during his career as a baker.