Sidonia (1834-1890)
Joseph (1836-1922)
Hannah (1839-1901)
In 1841, Thomas and Rebecca (nee Malpas) Williams were living on Nibley Green. Thomas was listed as an agricultural labourer, though both were described as weavers in their marriage certificate. There were four children, two of whom were baptised at the Congregational Chapel in the village. An older brother, Jesse Jones, had been baptised at the Rowland Hill Tabernacle in Wotton under Edge in 1825, and was , at the time , a servant at Bassett Court Farm, nearby. There appears to have been another older brother, William.
In 1851, Thomas and Rebecca were living in Alkington with Hannah, now a dressmakers apprentice, and their last daughter Marinda, born in 1843. Hannah, now Anna, married Thomas Mayfield, a footman, in Berkeley church in February 1860. Anna’s siblings, Merinda and William, were witnesses.
In the 1861, Anna, now a dressmaker, was living with her parents. Thomas was working as a footman at Lattenbury Hall, Leicestershire. In 1871, the couple were living in Hurst Green, Salehurst, Sussex, and Thomas was an indoor servant.
In 1881, Thomas is an indoor servant at Spinners Hall, Horsmonden, Kent, while Anna is living elsewhere in the village. Ten years later, the couple are living in Pembury, Kent. Thomas is a gardener and Anna a dressmaker. In 1901, the couple were living in Brenchley, Kent, near Tonbridge. Ann later that year, aged 62. Tom died the following year.
!n 1851 Joseph was working as a servant in the parish. After that, he enlisted in the Army. His record is given in the Chelsea Royal Hospital Pensioner Records, and he was awarded a pension of 12 shillings (a week?) in July 1876.
He enlisted in the 28th Foot Regiment, then the 81st, and the 69th Foot Regiments, serving for 16 years in Malta, 2 years in India and a year in Gibraltar. His service was recorded a ‘very good’
In November 1876, he married Susan Lydia Sherman in St Martins, North Nibley.
In 1881, he is living with his wife Susan (a dressmaker) and daughter Ellen (baptised Ellen Sherman Williams), aged 3. Joseph is listed as a pensioner. In 1891, he is the owner of the Horseshoe Inn, in Chipping Sodbury, and is living there with Susan, Ellen, and his son, Albert, aged 5. The family remain at the inn over the next two census’.
The Horseshoe Inn
In 1921, Joseph was living with his married daughter Ellen and her family in Worcester, where he died a year later, aged 86.
Sidonia married Henry Hinton in May 1860, in Lambeth, London. In the record, Thomas is promoted to a bailiff. I can’t find Sidonia in the ’51 Census, but I presume that she was a servant in London, as her future husband was.
In 1861, the couple were living on Friars Wharf, Oxford. Henry was a college servant and they had a 7 month old daughter, Ellen. In the next Census, three more daughters had arrived. The family were living on Speedwell Street, Oxford, but still in the same district of the city. In ’81, the family were at the same address, and a son had been added to the family. Henry was now recorded as ‘College Bedmaker’ and Sidonia was a laundress.
Sidonia died 9 years later, aged 56, and was buried at Holy Trinity, Oxford. Henry died in 1897.
North Nibley One-Place-Study 