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The Moore Family of 29 Tennyson Road, Bath, Somerset (1905-1970)

While researching my own family home in Bath, I came across a newspaper clipping about a young soldier from the house opposite. What began as curiosity became a much deeper investigation into the Moore family, who lived at 29 Tennyson Road for sixty-five years.
At the centre of that story is Willie Moore — athlete, tank officer, oil engineer and twice a soldier — wounded at Loos and Cambrai, awarded the Military Cross and later working the oilfields of Venezuela and Iraq. But the family around him proved equally worth knowing. This is their story.

James GULLIVER of Avon Street & Milk Street, Bath, Somerset

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 History of 7 Tennyson Road, Bath, Somerset

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.