Rebecca (1838-1873)
Sarah (1840-1871)
Ann (1836-1860)
In 1841, Rebecca, Sarah and Ann lived at Crowel Mill, with their parents. Henry (recorded as a clothier) and Esther (nee Perrett). The area that Henry held freehold is outlined in blue in the map below, but he also leased the areas outline in yellow from Earl Berkeley.
Reproduced with the kind permission of Geoff Gwatkin
In 1851, two sons had been added to the family – Jacob and William, but the died of scarlet fever within weeks of each other, in 1856. A third son, John, was born in 1849, but was ‘visiting’ a family in Slimbridge at the time of the ’51 Census, perhaps because William was only 4 months old. Ann and Rebecca, as well as their mother and father were all recorded as being cloth workers.
In ’61, Henry is recorded as employing men and women, though the actual numbers can’t be distinguished. Hester/ Esther had died in 1861 and Henry is living with his daughter Sarah and son-in-law, Edwin Perrett, a labourer (they had married in 1859). Ann had died July 1860, of phthisis pulmonaris, otherwise known as TB.
Sarah’s Marriage certificate, showing that she was illiterate.
In 1871, Sarah was living with her husband and four sons on Nibley Street. She died in October 1871.
In 1856, Rebecca married Anthony Bye at the Tabernacle in Wotton under Edge, a painter/compositor, and they were living with their two children on Nibley Street in 1861. At the next census, they were living on Barrs Lane, with a family of seven children. In 1873 she, like her sister, died of TB.
Henry outlived all but one of his six children. He remarried Elizabeth Davis in 1862. In 1871, they were living with John, Henry’s only remaining child. Both men were recorded as woollen cloth makers, and Elizabeth was a cloth picker.
In ’81, Henry was recorded as being a miller, and died in 1889. Two months before his death, Henry’s son John married Hannah Maria James. John continued to live at the mill until the time of the 1911 Census, at which point John was a widower. After that date, in 1912, he married Mabel Emma Trotman, and they lived at ‘Syringa’ Chapel Street, Cam, until his death in 1925.
In his will, Henry bequeathed £150 to be divided between the children of Rebecca, and £150 to be divided between the children of Sarah. £10 was left to his nephew William Hooper. To his wife, he bequeathed 4 shillings a week, as long as she resided with her step-son John. If she ceased to do so, the bequest rose to 8 shillings a week. Further to that, if John died intestate, the executors should divide the part of the estate held as money between Henry’s grandchildren. The rest of the estate, valued at £1346, was left to John.
In April 1887, a codicil was added to say that, in the event of the death of John while Elizabeth still lived, the executors should provide her with a ‘convenient and furnished cottage’ for the rest of her life.
John, in his will, left £2000 to his wife Mabel, as well as ‘all my plate linen china glass pictures prints furniture and other household effects’. Bequests were also left to his cousin Beatrice Holborrow, Dr Barnados, and North Nibley Tabernacle. The remainder was to be divided between his nephews and nieces. The value of the estate was £10,023.
North Nibley One-Place-Study 