Edward Culverhouse

Lilith Reakes wrote to Christine Myers (aka Gould) in an undated letter, some time before 20 August 1991 (her second letter):

"Dear Mrs Myers,

May I call you Christine?................ I am writing on behalf of my Aunt, Miss Ivy Clara Culverhouse, who until February this year lived at 12 Wedmore Rd, Saltford. She is 96 years of age, blind and now living in a residential home in Keynsham, and is just a little confused at times. Aunty Ivy is a neice of Edward Culverhouse, he was my great uncle Ted. Edward Culverhouse was at one time a baker, he had 3 children, 2 girls and a boy, one girl about the time of the first world war, whose name I cannot recall, married an Australian soldier. Ellen married Gilbert Gover, they had one daughter, who I was given to understand joined the Womens Royal Air Force in the 1939/45 war........
Uncle Ted had a room in my parents' house when we lived in Bath, we moved to Saltford 5 miles out in 1933. Uncle Ted worked at that time in a gentlemen's club in Bath. I vaguely remember him, but recall a visit to him when he went to live with his daughter in Locksbrook Road."

Alan Ray-Jones wrote to Chris Myers, February 2004:

'I went to IGI (http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/default.asp) to see if I could find out any more about Charles or Edward or Henry Culverhouse, but had little success. Perhaps you have tried already. The name Culverhouse goes back to 1580 at least in the Bedford area and after that was strong in Wiltshire, it seems.

She replied, March 2004:

"When I first started my search for family, I heard from a Robert Culverhouse in Warminster, Wilts. He did not think we were related, but said that " our family story says that our forefathers were Scottish masons who came to this area to build Longleat House (near Warminster). Anyway, families are always interesting........... I believe a flyman was a cabbie (from "a fly - one horse hackney carriage" - Oxford Dictionary). This fits with the story of my grandfather's job when he had to give up running Sally Lunn's.

In a Somerset Directory for 1883 there was only one Culverhouse entry for Bath, that was Eli Culverhouse, 24 Lambridge Place.

1851 Census for Bath - Walcot St Swithin's

At 3 Mount Beacon Row, with other families:

Henry Culverhouse Head Unmd 29 Gardener Born Somerset, Bath
Harriet Culverhouse Sister Unmd 16 Needlewoman Born Somerset, Bath
William Culverhouse Nephew 7 Scholar Born Somerset, Bath
Edward Culverhouse Brother Married 29 Gardener Born Somerset, Bath
Frederick Culverhouse Brother 9 Scholar Born Somerset, Bath

1861 Census for Walcot St Swithins, Bath:

RG9/1690 Folio 44 Page 35

8 Ainlies (?) Buildings:

Edward Culverhouse Head Marr 40 Gardener Domestic Servant Born Somerset, Bath
Ann Culverhouse Wife Marr 48 Born Somerset, Frome
Frederick Culverhouse Son 12 Scholar Born Somerset, Bath
Edward Culverhouse Son 10 Scholar Born Somerset, Bath
Sarah Culverhouse Daughter 8 Scholar Born Somerset, Bath
Ellen Culverhouse Daughter 4 Scholar Born Somerset, Bath


1871 Census for Walcot, Bath:

8 Ainslies Buildings:

Edward Culverhouse Head Marr 49 Gardener Born Somerset, Bath
Ann Culverhouse Wife Marr 59 Born Somerset, Frome
Frederick Culverhouse Son 22 Brightsmith Born Somerset, Bath
Edward Culverhouse Son 20 Baker Born Somerset, Bath
Sarah Culverhouse Daughter 17 Dressmaker Born Somerset, Bath


1881 Census for Bath, Somerset: FHL Film 1341587 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 2440 Folio 108 Page 19

Dwelling: A Monmouth Place, Census Place: Walcot, Somerset, England
Source: Rel: Marr: Age: Sex: Occ: Birthplace
William J. PHILLIPS, Head M 30 M Fly Proprietor Employing 4 Men Bath, Somerset, England
Sarah Ann PHILLIPS Wife M 29 F Bath, Somerset, England
Ellen Maria PHILLIPS Dau 8 F Scholar Bath, Somerset, England
Annie Louisa PHILLIPS Dau 5 F Scholar Bath, Somerset, England
Alfred James PHILLIPS Son 2 M Bath, Somerset, England
Ann CULVERHOUSE M in L W 67 F Frome, Somerset, England
Edward CULVERHOUSE B in L W 30 M Flyman Bath, Somerset, England


1891 Census for Walcot (Holy Trinity), Bath

RG12/1937 Folio 99 Page 6

Midland ???

Edward Culverhouse Head M 40 Cab Proprietor Born Somerset, Bath
Jemima Culverhouse Wife M 3 (30!) Born Somerset, Marksbury
Elsie Culverhouse Daughter 2 Born Somerset, Bath
Ellen Maria Culverhouse Daughter 8 mths Born Somerset, Bath
Frederick Davis Boarder Widr 66 Independent means Born Somerset, Bath
Elizabeth Davis Boarder Single 31 Born Somerset, Bath 1911 Census: Edward Culverhouse, cabman and provision dealer, his wife Jemima, 50, son Charles Edward, 14, junior clerk, and daughter Laura, 12, at school