Laburnum Terrace

John & Annie Ford of 10 Gloucester Road

The 1891 census shows the house was now occupied by John and Annie Ford and their family.

John and Annie were married in Thornbury on 29 April 1880.  John was a maltster aged 28 and was the son of Matthew and Hannah Ford, farmers from Court House Farm, a large farm in Rockhampton.  Annie was Annie Elizabeth, the 20 year old daughter of John Thomas Boulton, a butler and his wife, Susannah.  In 1881 they had been living on The Plain where John was working as a maltster.

John Ford is shown as living in Gloucester Road in 1893 Voters List.  In 1896 he is listed as living in Morton. Interestingly, John and Annie Ford left number 10 to become the master and matron of Thornbury Workhouse and they are shown there in the 1901 census.  Their daughter, young Annie, assisted them there.

Annie died on September 21st 1911, aged 51years.  John died February 17th 1933 aged 80 years.  Both are interred in Thornbury cemetery.

Annie Ford’s brother, John Thomas Boulton, the railway clerk for the Midland Railway who was living with John and Annie in the 1891 census, married Mabel Cullimore in 1893.  By the 1901 census, they had moved to Gloucester where he was still working as a railway clerk.

We were interested to see that Annie Elizabeth died in 1911 aged 51 years.  She died at Glenthorne, 13 Gloucester Road, the home of  her sister, Elizabeth Mabel Maud Burchell.

This page was last updated: 12/05/2007