9 Pullins Green

Florence Lavinia Hall

Florence's background presented quite a challenge!  We eventually discovered she was Florence Lavinia Pegley, born in the September quarter 1890 in Berkeley.  She was the daughter of a dock labourer, Henry and his wife, Beatrice who were living in Hinton, near Berkeley at the time of the 1901 census.

In December quarter 1914 Florence married Charles Henry Wilcox in the area of Tendring in Essex.  Charles was a crewman in the Royal Navy which might explain the location of their marriage, which was so far away from both their homes.  He was born in Dorset in 1884, the son of Charles Wilcox, a woodman from Mannington in Dorset and his wife, Fanny.  Another branch of the same family lived at Park Lodge and then in Crispin Lane.  They were descended from one of Charles Henry's brothers, a John Robert Wilcox, a soldier whose wife, Sarah, was from Londonderry.  Click here to read about this branch

Charles and Florence had one daughter, May Elizabeth, known as Betty, who was born in the Portsmouth area on 17 May 1918.  When Betty started at Thornbury St Mary's School in 1926 the records show that the family had moved to Thornbury from Standish.

Charles must have died before 1926 because in the school records it gives only Florence's name as her parent/guardian.  She and Betty were living in St Mary Street at this time.

Florence married again in Bristol in 1928.  Her second husband was George Herbert Hall, a widower.  George's first wife, Frances Elizabeth, had died in 1924 aged 55 years.  George was a plumber who lived in Castle Street where he was in business with his son, Thurburn.  After George died in 1946 aged 77 years, Florence continued to live in Castle Street.  She is listed as living in Castle Street in the 1950 electoral register.   We assume that she continued to live at 22 Castle Street.   By 1954 electoral register Florence had moved to 9 Pullins Green.

Florence died in Thornbury in 1962 aged 72.

 This page was last updated: 08/08/2011