Nantyderry No. 3

The census of 1891 says Henry Neate aged 25, a railway signalman born in Hereford is residing at number 3 with his family, wife Clara, 23 from Llanvihangle Crucorney and their son Albert Henry 2, born in Goytre, Living with them is Clara’s sister Sonia Harrison aged 17.

Henry Neate married Susannah Mills and had three children, Harry, Edwin and Hannah, he was moved to Cheltenham with his occupation as a signalman, he died in Cheltenham in 1930 leaving probate of £1278 0s 5d to Alfred Roberts assistant post superintendent.

By  1901 the new occupier of number 3 was Charles Southam also a signalman, Charles was 25 from Hereford, his wife Sarah 23 was from Abergavenny, they have a one year old son Charles who was born in Llanvihangel Crucorney.

By 1911 Tracy Leeworthy 30 a GWR signalman and his wife Maud, daughter Mollie Gwendoline along with their niece Madeline Florence Sweet and boarder Albert Price were in residence.

They remained at  Nantyderry until about 1918 as the new family who took residence was Charles Wagher and his wife Annie, followed shortly in 1921 by Emma Collet a widow, her husband John having died in 1918, Emma and John’s children were John 25, a gardener working for D Knight, Nantyderry, Blanche Maria 14, and a boarder Sandford George 34 from Gloucester. They moved back to Worcestershire at some point.

By 1935  Percy, Doris and George Jones lived at number 3.

By 1937 William Rouse and his family took residence, they remained in Nantyderry for many years moving into the station house by 1939 as on the 1939 electoral register for number 3 is Reg Gwatkin, a tiler and plasterer born in 1914, with his wife Winifred born in 1909.

Reg Gwatkin died in 1964

William Rouse died in 1960 aged 83 and Harriet in 1940 aged 76.