Jane and Emma Trotman

In the 1841 Census, Jane and Emma were living on Nibley Green. Their father leased a cottage house, garden and orchard from William Lee Jortin, marked in blue on the map.

The cottage has now disappeared and the site lies in the garden of Berkeley Cottage.

Isaac also occupied two areas of waste, marked in yellow on the map.

Reproduced courtesy of Geoff Gwilliam

Isaac was a labourer, and his 2 oldest sons, John and Charles, both living with the household, also had the same occupation. Their were two other elder siblings living in the house, Harriet and Isaac, as well as three others not present at the time.

In 1851, Isaac and Hannah were still living in Nibley, but, of their children, only Jane and Emma remained at home. Jane was recorded as being a cloth worker.

In 1861, Jane was working as a housemaid in Hampstead. In 1857, her illegitimate child, Elizabeth Delight, had been baptised, and was living with her grandparents in 1861. Sadly, she died, aged 7, in 1864. Ten years later, Jane was living in Paddington as a nurse. Oddly, her place of birth is listed as ‘not known’ and and her marital status as ‘married’.

Jane died in July of that year. Poignantly, there is an advert of the Western Mail of November 1894, placed by Albert, the son of her eldest sister Harriet. He wanted news of Jane ‘who left North Nibley about 1860’.

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Elizabeth was living in Nibley with her parents and niece in 1861.

A year later, aged 30, she married Isaac Mann, an agricultural labourer. The couple had two children before Elizabeth died, aged only 37, in 1869. The cause of death was given as pleurisy. She was buried in St Martins churchyard. Seven months later, Isaac remarried to Melicent Jenkins and had five more children.