A new bit of detective work caught my eye during October with a request from Maureen Humphries for help identifying James GULLIVER who died in Bath, Somerset in 1915, and his daughter Mary (Maureen’s great-grandmother) who was born in Bristol in 1879. Could I track them down in census records?
The houses along Tennyson Road were built in 1897 on land leased from St. John’s Hospital. The lease began on 21st December 1895 for 499 years, and there were 33 houses built in total. Using census and electoral records, it is possible to trace the occupants of 7 Tennyson Road from 1899 (two years after it was built) to 1939 (three years before it sustained serious war damage and was rebuilt), more or less covering its existence in its original form.