Sarah Ann (1832-1926) baptised at St Mary’s, Wotton under Edge
Eliza (1839-1906) baptised at Nibley Congregational Chapel
Emma (1841-1876) baptised at Nibley Congregational Chapel
Mary (1837-1916) baptised at St Martins, North Nibley
With thanks to Geoff Gwilliam for permission to reproduce the Tithe Map of 1847
At the time of the 1841 Census, Abraham and Hannah Tilly were living in Forthay with 8 of their 9 children. Charlotte, their last child, was born in 1844.
On 12th September 1828, Abraham, Hannah, and Joseph were the subject of a removal order from Minchinhampton. Although born in Minchinhampton, the boys were baptised in Wotton under Edge in 1834.
Abraham was a wool spinner, but was an agricultural labourer in later census’. Their house and garden was rented from Henry Bayley.
In 1851, Sarah, Mary, and Eliza were all involved in the woollen industry, as a feeder and roller joiners. Emma, aged 11, was recorded as being a nurse. They were living with their parents. Ten years later, the family had moved to Barrs Lane in the village. Mary, Eliza, and Emma were all woollen cloth workers. Also in the household was one-year-old Elizabeth, the illegitimate daughter of Elizabeth Tilly, who was working as a servant in Charfield at the time of the ’61 Census.
In 1867, Elizabeth married George Summers, a gardener, at Ozleworth and, in 1871, Elizabeth and George were living in Ozleworth with their two children and Elizabeth.
In 1881, the young Elizabeth was boarding in London and working as a dressmaker, but then disappears from the record.
In Sarah was working as a servant in Shipton under Wychwood, near Charlbury, Oxfordshire. The following year, she married William Cox, a labourer, in the church there. In 1871, they and their four children were living at Fiddlers Hill, near to William’s family. They would later have two more children. The family lived there until Sarah’s death in 1926, aged 94. She was buried in the local churchyard. William died the following year.
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Mary married John Pepworth, a widower, at St Martins in 1869. The witnesses were Abraham and Eliza. All parties were illiterate and had to leave their mark in lieu of a signature. John’s first wife died, after having five children, in 1865, aged 40.
In 1871, the couple were living on the Wotton Road with their 1st son, and two of John’s children from his previous marriage. They lived on Wotton road for the next 20 years. John died in 1898 and Mary moved to The Butts, in Wotton. She lived there until her death, in 1916, aged 79.
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Eliza was living with her widowed father on Barrs Lane in 1871, as his housekeeper. In 1881, she was working as a silk worker, and living with her sister, Charlotte and her family in Kingswood. Charlotte had married Jacob Wilkins.
In 1883, she married the widowed William Fowles, a plasterer, whose wife had died the year before. At the next census, the couple were living in Wickwar, with 2 of Williams’s sons from his previous marriage.
William died in 1899. Eliza (now Eliza Vowles, was back living with her sister and brother in law on Walkmill Lane, Kingswood. Eliza died in 1906, aged 67, and was buried in Kingswood.
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Emma married Henry Hale, a tailor, in 1861. At the 1871 Census, the couple were living in Bisley. Emma died in 1876, aged 30, and was buried at Bisley.
Oddly, 4 of their 6 children (Joseph, Mary Ann, Elizabeth and William) were baptised in Bisley on the same day in 1869.
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