2 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! 

Alfred & Ann Burchell - we believe that the house was occupied by Alfred Burchell in the 1851, 1861 and 1871 censuses. Click here to read more about this family

We are not sure who lived in the house in the 1881 and 1891 censuses.

Isaac & Sarah Phillips - the Phillips family occupied the house from about 1901 to the late 1940's - click here to read about the Phillips family

Donald & Margaret Reeves - the  electoral registers from 1950 to 1957 show Donald W. Reeves and his wife, Margaret A. living in the house.  William Donald Reeves was born on 15th July 1922, the son of Percy Reeves and his wife, Edith (nee Worsely) who were living at Combe Cottage on the Gloucester Road at the time.  Donald, as he seems to have been called, started at the National (St Marys) School in June 1926. 

Donald and Margaret had moved to The Knapp by 1965.

Minnie Eyles - the 1965 electoral register shows Minnie as living in the house.  She was 91 years old at this time and she lived to be 101 before dying on 9th November 1975.

Minnie was born in Minety near Malmesbury in 1874, the daughter of John Timbrel, a butcher and his wife, Ann.  In December 1898, Minnie married William Eyles in the Malmesbury area.  William was born in Woodford in Gloucestershire, the son of Charles Eyles, a carpenter and his wife Elizabeth, and he was baptised at Berkeley on 30th July 1870.   

By the time of the 1901 census, William and Minnie had moved to Thornbury and they were living in Gillingstool with their daughter, Hilda aged 1.  William was working as a blacksmith and he was listed in the 1904 trade directory as a blacksmith in Gillingstool.  By 1914 he was listed as a cycle agent, still at Gillingstool.  Their daughter, Hilda is shown in 1915 as joining the Council School as a pupil teacher.

By 1918 William and the family had moved to St Mary Street to the shop on the corner of Horseshoe Lane.  Many people still associate this building (now 'Lets Go Walking' shop) as being 'Eyles and King' the cycle shop.  The partnership of William Eyles and Charles Adam King being formed when William's daughter, Hilda, married Charles King.  Another daughter, Gertrude Monica married Frank Hendy. 

William died on 2nd June 1947 aged 77 years. 

Others occupants of the house include Richard and Maureen Haskins who lived there in the late 1960's and were still there in 1970 electoral register.

This page was last updated: 23/06/2008