Elizabeth (1833-1911)
George (1835-1879)
Tamar (1837-1914)
In 1841, the Trotman family – Elizabeth, George and Tamar, with their parents Simon (an agricultural labourer) and Martha, and three older siblings, were living at Millend, in the house that is now called Millend House. Simon rented the area highlighted in yellow from Robert Mason junior, acting as the trustee of Margaret Hooper.
Martha’s maiden name was Pearce, and two of her children were given that as their middle names. Although the 1841 Census lists him as a labourer, all of his childrens’ birth records (apart from George’s) list him as a farmer.
In 1851, both George and Tamar were living in Millend with their parents. Elizabeth was working as a servant in Gloucester.
In the next Census, Elizabeth was living in Shropshire with her married sister Clara and her family, in Preston Brocklehurst, a few miles north of Shrewsbury. Clara died four years later, and Elizabeth continued to live with her brother-in-law, James Deakin, and her nephews. The family moved several times, to the places circled in blue, but never far.
In 1911, the year that she died, aged 78, in Cannock, where she was living with her great neice.
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George lived in Nibley all of his life, until his death, aged 44, in 1879. He died of phthisis, more commonly know as TB.
He married Julia Woodward, another member of the cohort, when he was 31 and, after their marriage lived at No. 1 Gillmans Row in Nibley. They had 3 children, and George worked as a shoemaker.
Gillmans Row – George lived in the house on the far left.
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In 1871, Tamar was living with George England, a wheelwright, as his wife (though they were not to marry until 1880). The had two daughter, Susan Celia, born in 1863 in North Nibley, and Mary Ann, born in Bristol in 1867. They were living in Stratton Street, in the St Pauls area of Bristol. Susan Celia (possibly not George’s daughter, as I haven’t found a baptism) died, aged 9, in 1872.
By 1881, they had moved to St Phillips Street, in the same area, and were living with three children, Harry, William, and Susan. All three had been baptised on 12th February 1881 in Bedminster Church. Perhaps this was to ‘regularise’ their recently-married parents’ union. Mary Ann was boarding with another family on City Road, Bristol.
In 1891, the family, now rejoined by Mary, were living in Bedminster, in Dean Crescent. They can’t be found on the next Census.
In 1911, the widowed Tamar was living with her widowed daughter Susan, and her two daughters in Bright St, Bedminster. She died three years later, aged 77.
North Nibley One-Place-Study 