10 Pullins Green

Occupants

It is very difficult to be sure which family is living in which of the houses in the 1800's as we feel the census enumerators didn't stick rigidly to the same route! 

Thomas and Ann Underhill occupied the house for many years from the 1871 census through to their deaths in 1911 and 1920 respectively.  Click here to read more about this family

Nellie Burgess - Nellie is shown in the 1930 electoral register.  We have found that Nellie was the daughter of Alfred Gill.  According to Council School records, she was born on 14th December 1896 and she left school in 1910 to become an apprentice. 

On the 18th August 1921 she married Hugh Cecil Burgess a PO First class in the Royal Navy aged 27 from Market Lavington in Wiltshire.  Hugh was the son of Alfred Burgess a photographer who was deceased at the time of Hugh's marriage.

The baptism records of St Mary's Church show that Grace Edna Joan Burgess who was baptised on 24 July 1924 was the daughter of Hugh Cecil and Nellie Burgess of Pullins Green.  Hugh was a joiner.  The records of the Council School show that Charles Edward Henry Burgess started at the Infants School in 1926 - he was the son of Hugh Cecil and Nellie of John Street.  His sister, Grace, was to join him there in 1928.  The school records show that these two children left school for periods, in 1927 to go to Gosport after which they returned in 1928, and then again in 1930 to Devonport and 1931 to Southsea.  Interestingly, the Prewett's Street Directory shows a 'S. Burgess' living in the area in 1927.  We don't know who this is.

We have assumed that Hugh Cecil must have been a joiner for the navy which would explain his occupation at the time of his marriage and his subsequent changes of address.  Hugh never appears in an electoral register and Nellie not until 1930 presumably because of this mobility.  We have been told that Nellie was a widow and lived alone and so have assumed that she returned to Thornbury either because she was a widow or simply because Hugh was away at sea for a very long period. We have no record of Hugh's death.  Nellie does not appear in the 1935 electoral register.

The Clutterbucks - the next family shown as living there is that of Norman Shaftsbury and Gwendoline Clutterbuck.  They were in the house from 1935 to the 1970's.   Click here to read more about the Clutterbuck family

This page was last updated: 02/11/2008