lyde lane, yeovil

[mark foot]

I am trying to track down Sydney House, Lyde Lane, Yeovil. My gt grandmother Bessie Higgins had my grandmother Margaret on the 15.10.1902. When unmarried. Sydney Hoyse is a a couple of miles away from her house in Trent, Dorset. Was this a friends house or perhaps a home to support unmarried mother's. Lyde Lane became in the main Lyde Road. Any info re the house would help.

Many thanks   Mark

[MaureeninNY]

Hi Mark,

I forget if you have access to any of the $ sites.

That address seems to be the home of Samuel and Lucy PERHAM.

Maureen

[*Sandra*]

1901 Census - Sydney House Yeovil

Samuel Perham   67 Twerton, Devon. Living on own means.
Lucy Perham   47 Montacute, Somerset.

Sandra

[*Sandra*]

Lyde Road was originally called Lyde Lane.  As seen in the 1901 Ordnance Survey map on this link.

http://www.yeovilhistory.info/lydelane.htm

Sandra

[mark foot]

Sandra, many thanks. No real clue regarding them apart from being able to live off their own means. I have not come across them as a family name or friend. I think Bessie was living at Trent Mill with her father so he would have needed help. I think years ago I came across Perham as a publican but it is still a mystery and I have no idea where in the lane the house was.

Very many thanks, Mark

[chempat]

Which houses are adjacent to Sydney House on any censuses that you have found it on?

[mark foot]

I had bo success when I last trued to look. I have no idea where in Lyde Lane or what became Lyde Road this house was. A couple of years ago I had a walk uo Lyde Road and didn't see a house with the name on.

Thanks  Mark

[chempat]

On the 1901 census you have as dwellings Pen Mill farm, Babylon View, Sydney House, Maybank House, Lyde Lane, Rose Cottage, Lyde Vale,  Little Lyde Farm, Hospital Cottage, Great Lyde Cottages, Great Lyde Farm, Mudford Road, etc

if this is how the enumerator walked the route, it ties down where Sydney House was.

1927 map
http://maps.nls.uk/view/101445974#zoom=4&lat=2722&lon=6531&layers=BT

Also earlier map (1886):
http://maps.nls.uk/view/101462389#zoom=4&lat=2621&lon=6287&layers=BT

Comparison:
http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=16&lat=50.9491&lon=-2.6090&layers=6&right=BingHyb

[mark foot]

Many thanks the 1927 map shows  a couple of unnamed properties in the right area. Hopefully another map will show the actual house or a photograph. The area from memory has been built over with a housing estate and it might mean that the developer to get planning showed the houses thath were flattened.