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Husseys

John Hussey moved to Tetbury between 1861 & 1871. Before this he worked as a painter in his home town of Chideok, DOR.


In 1871 he was a boarder with Isaac Baylis, his wife, and their daughter, Kate who was 6 years old. John was 26 and a plumber glazier etc. 

In 1881 he was still a boarder with Isaac Baylis & wife, daughter Kate. Isaac was a plumber, & glazier, and his wife a beerhouse keeper. They were living on Church Street. John was 35 & a plumber & gasfitter 

In 1891 John Hussey was 45, still single and the head of the household on Church Street. His housekeeper was Martha Baylis, widow of Isaac. He was a plumber & gas fitter. He married Kate Baylis in 1894 in Gloucester Registration district.

Son Charles William was born in 1896. By 1901 there was another son, Stanley, and they lived on Union Street, John was a plumber & glazier, and an employer.

 

HUSSEY Shop front
HUSSEY advert from Beautiful Britain

Above: the shop front on Church Street

Left: advert from Beautiful Britain

Below: article from Beautiful Britain

HUSSEY text from Beautiful Britain

TIMELINE

1887-1889

John Hussey Plumber Church Street

1914

Charles William Hussey plumber, gasfitter, painter & decorator & mechanical engineer Union Street TN 50 Tetbury

1919

not listed in trade directories

1923-1928

C.W.Hussey Kimberley House engineer plumber decorator

SOURCES & RESOURCES:

Wilson; Robert N.Beautiful Britain, views and reviews 1923

Trade Directories

Phone books

Census

 

GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARCHIVES:

Cotswold Collotype Co Ltd, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire
Photographs of Gloucestershire scenes
  Tetbury
   FILE D4140/GPS/328/34 - date: [c1910]
    Union Street [? Also known as Gumstool Hill], with Hussey plumbers, gas lamps, adverts for West of England Sack Hiring Co, and Rowntree's cocoa (422, Negative Large)

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