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There are several newspaper articles which include a mention of his name - mainly formal Church Announcements - they trace his career in the church until his retirement in late 1910 in Launceston, Cornwall. See this entry in the London Gazette  about his pension.

I can find no reference to his having a position in Weston-super-Mare.

If you look at the 1911 census - using the address search facility on FindmyPast - you will see that there was a single family living at 12 Severn Road  at that time. Mr & Mrs John WILLIAMS, their two daughters and a live-in general servant. This was fairly typical for the residents of Severn Road.

I have a street directory for 1917 and that shows an Edward POORE, as head of Household and the house with the name of "Lyndale".  He was still there in 1922/3.  In 1911 Edward POORE and family had been living nearby in Clifton Road.

The Care Home covers 12-16 Severn Road (3 houses) and no 12 was originally a semi-detached Victorian Villa built in the 1890s. Plans for the buildings in Severn Road can be seen in the Somerset Heritage Centre in Taunton. If you haven't already done so take a look at the road on Google Street View - although some changes have been made to No 12 you will be able to see by looking at the rest what it would have looked like in 1916.

Today, some of our members put their heads together trying to help you.  You wrote that George PYM was the son of George & Hannah PYM and you were looking for the maiden name of Hannah.  For about an hour we searched for a marriage of a George PYM with a Hannah without any success until we suddenly realised that George was possibly not the son of George and Hannah PYM but could have been a  son of a Samuel & Hannah PYM

A George PYM was christened in Brean 24th Sept 1835. - He had an elder brother also called George who had died and was buried at Brean.  There were other siblings baptised both before and after George

Using the transcriptions available on this site (for a very modest fee!) you can access these parish registers and also find the marriage of a Samuel PIM (note variant of spelling) to a Hannah BEAKES at Brean on the 2nd April 1821.  Samuel was a widower when he married Hannah and his first marriage was also at Brean.  His first wife was buried at Berrow.

We would be interested to hear what you think about this possibility.

I have a couple of books about Brean  - unfortunately neither has an index but both give some insight into the area. "The Story of Berrow and Brean"by William St J Kemm - I think it was privately published and I can't see a publication date - and "Brean, the Millenium Years" by Joan Jackson published in 1999.

Thanks Pat, that pretty well answers the question, great portrait of Francis Hutchinson SYNGE by the way.

The only reason I was asking was that I'd come across a dubious reference to Charles Barnes Wilkins being Mayor of Weston in the mid 1800's. I know a lot about him as I've researched him for a number years, he had lived in Weston and was a JP for Somerset but I'd never heard of him being Mayor of Weston so just wanted to check the veracity of the reference, which as I'd suspected was wrong.

Thanks for confirming it.