Laburnum TerraceSusannah & Harry Dawson Boulton |
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When John & Annie Ford moved out of number 10 about 1895, the house was
taken over by Annie’s mother, Susannah Boulton and her son, Harry Dawson
Boulton. |
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Susannah had been married to John Thomas Boulton, a butler. In 1861
John Thomas and Susannah were living next to the Apple Tree Inn, Cockmead on
Kington Lane, close to where the town cemetery is now located. The record shows that John Thomas was aged 27, was then
working as a butler and was born in Thornbury. Susannah was aged 27
born in Stanford in Berkshire. At the time of that census they had two
children, William John aged 3 and Ann Elizabeth aged 1. Ann was the
person who, as Annie Ford, had been living in number 10 before Susannah.
By 1891 only Harry Dawson, now a solicitor’s clerk and
Elizabeth Maud Mabel, a pupil teacher, were living with her. In 1893
Harry Boulton had completed an application for the right to vote, based on
his occupation of a house in Castle Street, Thornbury. He had to
produce receipts to prove his residence there. There were obviously
different laws then about the privacy of the ballot box because there is a
note that he was a Conservative voter.
Harry Dawson Boulton died on 22 January 1925. Frederick Henry Burchell was his solicitor. His estate was valued at £5799 14s 6d. It is interesting to note that apart from Susannah and Harry, many other members of their family were associated with this area of Thornbury. Two of Susannah’s children, her daughter, Annie (now Annie Ford) and her son, John Thomas Boulton, had lived in number 10 before Susannah. They were in the house in the 1891 census. Another of Susannah’s daughters, Elizabeth Maud Mabel came to live next door in number 8 with her husband, Frederick Henry Burchell after they married in 1897. Finally, Ralph Boulton is also shown as living in Gloucester Road in 1913 directory although we don’t know in which house. In 1891 Ralph was living in Long Lane Lodge, Shipley in Derbyshire and working as an assistant master in an elementary school. In 1901 he had been working as a schoolmaster in Norman Hill, Cam and living with his wife, Leah and daughter, Mary L. When Ralph moved to Thornbury, he became a schoolmaster at the National School. Ralph and Leah had a son, Ralph, baptised whilst they were living in Gloucester Road in 1911. |
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