Laburnum Terrace

Tenants of No. 20 Gloucester Road

The house was rented out to tenants during the time it was owned by John Hodges and the Williams family.  During this time we have traced some of the families who occupied the house:

Sophia Bennett (about 1860 - 1878) - click here to see more information

The Stone family (about 1878 - 1896) - click here to see more information

George Ball (about 1896 - 1899)
In 1897 an Indenture between Emma Williams and John Hodges Williams mentions that a John James Hookway Carey and a person called Ball were living in the two houses now known as 20/22 Gloucester Road.  The 1896 Voters List and the 1898 Wrights Directory both show that John James Hookway Carey and George Ball were living in Gloucester Road.  That didn't help to identify which of them lived in number 20.  However, the 1899 Wrights Directory lists George Ball and the Rev A. O. Moore and we know from the 1901 census that the Rev Moore was living at number 22.  Hence we have to assume to that George Ball was in number 20.

The 1890 Voters List shows George Ball is living at Buckover, Milbury Heath.  The 1891 census shows him as George H Ball, a blacksmith aged 29 and living with his widowed mother, Sarah Ball.  George’s father, Thomas Ball, had also been a blacksmith and he had died 19/12/1873 aged 43 years.  Originally Thomas and Sarah (Orpin) had come from Halmore near Berkeley.  Sarah died 6 September 1895 aged 62 years and this may have led to George’s move into Thornbury.

The Underhill family (about 1900 - 1908)  - click here for more information

There is a long period after the 1901 census when we have had to rely on electoral rolls to indicate who was living in Gloucester Road.  Unfortunately house numbers were not used before 1954 and we have no definite information about who lived in the house until George Albert Beard and his wife Gertrude Isobel appeared in the Electoral Rolls of 1928/29.  We have yet to find evidence of who lived in the house in the intervening 26 years.

The Beard family (about 1928 - 1983) - click here for more information

 

This page was last updated: 28/09/2007