Simeon, Elizabeth and Ann Organ

Simeon (1834-) Baptised at North Nibley Tabernacle

Elizabeth (1839-

Ann (1836-) Baptised at North Nibley Tabernacle

In 1841, Simeon and Ann lived in a house and garden built on land classified as waste, number 274 on the map. The house has now disappeared.

Thanks to Geoff Gwatkin for his kind permission to reproduce the 1847 Tithe map transcription

Their parents were Mark, a woollen shearman, and Harriet (nee Woodward). Also part of the household was Elizabeth, whose status was uncertain, as no baptism record can be found. Other researchers have confused her with another Elizabeth Organ, of the same age, who was the illegitimate daughter of Mahala Organ.

In 1851, the family was still living on Nibley Green. Mark was still recorded as being a cloth worker, and Harriet and Simeon shared the same occupation. Elizabeth was also in the same household, as well as three more daughters. Ann was a servant in Frenchay, near Bristol.

In 1861, still living on the Green, Simeon, now a carpenter, was living with his parent and three sisters (another daughter had been born).

After the 1851 Census, I can find no record of Elizabeth, or a record of Ann after the ’41 Census.

In 1871, Mark and Harriet are still living on the Green. Simeon, a jobbing cabinet maker, is living at Northfield in the village, with his wife Ann and daughter Janet Ann. He had married in 1868 at St Lukes church in Gloucester.

In 1881, the family were living in Pitcourt, and, 10 years later, they were living in Nibley Green, perhaps in Simeon’s childhood home, as his father has died the previous year. In 1901 and 1911, the widowed Simeon was living with his daughter in the same place.

Simeon died in 1915, aged 81.