In 1836, Selina Knight was a pupil at a school run by Elizabeth Parsons. The house is now Nibley Cottage, opposite the Jubilee Tree. Ten years later, she was still there. In 1853, Elizabeth Parsons died and, after bequests to various nieces and nephews, left the remainder to Selina, ‘the daughter of her niece Isabella Knight’.
Isabella had married Jacob Organ in North Nibley in 1803, and the couple later had moved to Bristol, where Selina was baptised at the church of St Phillip and St Jacob in 1804. Sadly, she died only two years after Selina’s birth, so it seems that Selina had come to live with her great aunt in Nibley.
In 1861, she was living with her brother John, and his wife, in Kings Norton, Birmingham. She is recorded as being a draper’s assistant. In 1864, she married Joseph Webb at Westbury on Trym Methodist church, Bristol. Joseph was a linen draper.
The couple had six children – three daughters and three sons. Two of them were given names commemorating family names from previous generations = Oswald Adam Organ Webb, and Minnie Elizabeth Parsons Webb.
Selina died in 1902, aged 66. Her address was 3 Meridian Road, Cotham, Bristol. Her estate was valued at over £6000.
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