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- Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:23 pm
- Forum: Genealogy
- Topic: The Ball family from Cam
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6273
Re: The Ball family from Cam
I can't add much information but I do have a couple of photos which feature members of the Ball family circa 1901. The names mentioned include Amy, Ethel, Joseph, Vera and Emma. However the Joseph shown is around 50-60 and is said to be the Landlord of the Railway Inn in Cam so he cannot be the same...
- Mon Dec 21, 2009 1:28 pm
- Forum: Genealogy
- Topic: John Bennnett c1818-1856 Cam
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2843
Re: John Bennnett c1818-1856 Cam
It's certainly a possibility, as it's only 25 miles or so from Cam. Where did Hannah come from though? If she was from Bristol then the marriage would probably have been close to where she lived. Perhaps she moved to Cam with him after they married to be near where he worked and lived. Did he defini...
- Sun Dec 20, 2009 10:51 pm
- Forum: Genealogy
- Topic: John Bennnett c1818-1856 Cam
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2843
Re: John Bennnett c1818-1856 Cam
Hi Marilyn
I've no idea whether this is the one you were after but I found a record of a John Bennett marrying a Hannah Nicholas on 2nd April 1834 at "Temple, Bristol, Gloucester". This was online at the http://www.familysearch.org website.
Good luck.
I've no idea whether this is the one you were after but I found a record of a John Bennett marrying a Hannah Nicholas on 2nd April 1834 at "Temple, Bristol, Gloucester". This was online at the http://www.familysearch.org website.
Good luck.
- Mon Nov 02, 2009 1:35 pm
- Forum: Comments and Suggestions
- Topic: Old photographs of Dursley, Cam and Uley
- Replies: 3
- Views: 96509
Re: Old photographs of Dursley, Cam and Uley
Thanks for the suggestion Patricia. I do actually get hundreds of visitors to the site, although only a small percentage log in to the forum. I also get many photos sent to me regularly and have several thousand myself. Many of these do make their way on to the regular pages of the site but there is...
- Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:04 pm
- Forum: Genealogy
- Topic: Joseph Mitchell
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5268
Re: Joseph Mitchell
The death of Joseph Walters Mitchell is certainly recorded in 1891 in the Dursley district but he's not recorded as being buried at St. Marks' in Dursley. It wouldn't have been at St. James' as burials had stopped there by then and the town cemetery wasn't opened until 1934. There is a possibility o...
- Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:03 pm
- Forum: Genealogy
- Topic: Denley (Dinley) family
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5607
Re: Denley (Dinley) family
Hi Sally
I know of a Lavinia Lois Denley who had a non-confirmist baptism in Dursley in 1875, father Ezra, mother Lavinia.
I know of a Lavinia Lois Denley who had a non-confirmist baptism in Dursley in 1875, father Ezra, mother Lavinia.
- Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:45 pm
- Forum: Genealogy
- Topic: Joseph Mitchell
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5268
Re: Joseph Mitchell
Hello there The coffee tavern was opened on 1st December 1883 in Chapel Street, Cam due to the influence of the Temperance Movement which was set up to keep people away from the "evils of drink" and out of the pubs, of which there were many. Miss E.P. Winterbotham of Norman Hill was a lead...
- Fri Mar 06, 2009 1:36 pm
- Forum: Genealogy
- Topic: The Infirmary Littleworth
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4467
Re: The Infirmary Littleworth
Hi Sarah There are actually at least three Littleworths in Gloucestershire, one in Chipping Camden, one in Amberley and the one I think you are referring to which was once a small area within Gloucester City Centre. It's out of the Dursley area but according to the Imperial Gazetteer of England and ...
- Fri Feb 06, 2009 4:57 pm
- Forum: Genealogy
- Topic: The Shipways of Dursley
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5076
Re: The Shipways of Dursley
There is an Eliza Shipway (aged 60) listed as an "Outdoor Pauper" obtaining relief from Dursley Union Workhouse in October 1896. By that time she'd been in receipt of help for 27 weeks.
- Fri Feb 06, 2009 4:51 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Workhouse Boulton Lane
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8247
Re: Workhouse Boulton Lane
Hi Patricia. I agree with you about the difficulties of life in those days compared to today. I have a copy of the Dursley Union Workhouse "Abstract of Accounts and List of Paupers" for October 1896 and looking through it you can get a picture of how people ended up there. Reasons include ...
- Fri Feb 06, 2009 4:32 pm
- Forum: Genealogy
- Topic: Daisy Phillips and Fredrick Maggs
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4434
Re: Daisy Phillips and Fredrick Maggs
In case you weren't aware, Mr Francillon was a well respected solicitor in Dursley and had a large house at the top of Bull Pitch (opposite the old Bull Inn). His office was near the entrance gates to the churchyard at the top of Long Street.
- Fri Feb 06, 2009 4:26 pm
- Forum: Genealogy
- Topic: Harris family Dursley
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5619
Re: Harris family Dursley
The Harris family were big landowners in the area in the 18th and 19th century. George Harris had a mill and also owned Rednock House and much land between there and the town centre and also in the valley in which the Lister factory was extended. Harris family land was sold off to both Lister's and ...
- Thu Feb 05, 2009 12:25 pm
- Forum: Trading in the Town
- Topic: Shops in Long Street, Parsonage Street and Silver Street
- Replies: 13
- Views: 13739
Re: Shops in Long Street, Parsonage Street and Silver Street
You're right, those were the days. I think the Wainwright's dairy was around the back in Prospect Place and the shop was on Parsonage Street, later demolished when the Castle Street junction was built. Kingham's hairdresser's is still there by the way.
- Thu Feb 05, 2009 12:16 pm
- Forum: Dursley Pedersen
- Topic: Surviving Dursley Pedersen cycles?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15355
Re: Surviving Dursley Pedersen cycles?
Thanks for that. It looks like I need to get hold of a copy of that list, it sounds like you've made a good job of restoring your four examples. We have a restored ladies' model in the Dursley Heritage Centre but I'm trying to get hold of a gents model at some point. They're pretty hard to track dow...
- Thu Feb 05, 2009 12:07 pm
- Forum: Mawdsley's
- Topic: Mawdsley's stories
- Replies: 14
- Views: 24714
Re: Mawdsley's stories
Thanks for the recollections. If you went to the Mawdsley's site now you'd never guess there was once a factory there. The only thing left is the millpond, otherwise it's all new houses.