Henry and Jacob Pepworth

Henry Pepworth (1833-1916)

Jacob Pepworth (1838-1865)

reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland

The blue circle indicates where Jacob and lived in 1841, alongside their elder brother Thomas and their parents Thomas and Sarah (nee Matthews). The accommodation looks larger than it was, as the part of the property fronting the road was a barn, occupied by William Cook, a local farmer, and the family occupied the small extension at the rear.

Thomas was a labourer, and he and Sarah had four more children by the time of the ’41 Census, living away from their parents at that time.

Thomas and Sarah, with Jacob, an agricultural labourer himself by then, were still at Southend in 1851. Henry was living at a farm at Tortworth, also working as an Agricultural labourer.

In 1861 he was lodging in Berkeley.

When he was 19, Jacob married Matilda Woodward. They had two daughters, and the family were living in Bath, with Jacob working as a police constable, but he died at the age of 27.

In ’71, Henry was living with his wife, Jane, and their 9-year-old son, Richard Henry, at Upper Mills, Stonehouse, where he was working as a gardener. Jane died in 1879, and Henry In ’81, he was living with his new wife, Harriet, at Cheltenham Place, Bristol, working as a general labourer. Richard Henry was lodging in Swindon, working as a factory labourer.

There is no record of Henry in 1891

In 1901, he is living on his own means, a widower, in St Georges, Bristol, and, in 1911 he is an inmate in Bristol Workhouse, where he dies, at the age of 83, in 1916.