In the 1841 Census, John, aged 4, was living with his parents, Isaiah and Ann, on Gazards Row. His baby brother, unnamed and only 4 days old, was also in the household. Sadly, the baby, christened Joseph, died when he was only two. John’s two-year old sister, Mary, is lodging with her grandparents, William and Elizabeth Trotman, who live
Isaiah and Ann went on to have eight children altogether, though four died before they were 5 years old. Isaiah was listed as an agricultural labourer, but, in later censuses was recorded as being a cloth worker and a handloom weaver until, in 1871, at the age of 60, he becomes an agricultural labourer once more.
John worked as an agricultural labourer in North Nibley, lodging at various farms in the parish, until he disappears after the 1891 Census.
Mary married George Brown, a labourer from Dursley, when she was 20, four months after their first child, Alfred, was born. They lived in Dursley until her death in June 1878.
They had eight more children, at least two of whom died as infants. Mary died in 1878, aged 40. Their last child, Ellen, was born at the time of Mary’s death, and was baptised, shortly afterwards, in Dursley Union. Two of their son’s, Charles William and George are in the Union in 1881. Alfred was being held in Dursley Police Station, on a charge of stealing hay.
Of the other children, or George/Jacob, there is no further trace.
North Nibley One-Place-Study 