The Jenkins families

Reproduced with the kind permission of Geoff Gwilliam

In 1841, William Jenkins and his family were living in Waterley Bottom, in lot number 1098. The cottage has since disappeared. William leased it from George Bengough Esq, and was employed as a shepherd.

Ten years later, the family, with three more children, were living in Breadstone.

In 1854 Thomas married Emma Webb in Berkeley parish church. Both were living at Heathfield and were Illiterate. In the following Census, Thomas (an agricultural labourer) and Emma were living in Newport (an area in Berkeley parish) with their two children. They had five children in all, but Emily died, aged 33, in 1868. In the following Census the widowed Thomas was living in Newport with four of his children and, in 1881 was living in Orchard Cottages, Newport, with one of his sons. Thomas and his son Henry were still there a decade later.

Thomas then disappears, though it is possible that his death was recorded in 1903.

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Harriet was a servant, living in Stonehouse, in 1861. Two years later, aged 28, she married Thomas Long, a labourer, at Berkeley church. In the ’71 Census they were recorded as living in Michaelwood with their four children. They were in Heathfield in 1881, and Harriet is recorded as being a labourers wife and charwoman. Ten years later, the widowed Harriet was living with one of her sons in Damery, near Michaelwood.

In 1901 and 1911, Harriet was living in 37 Glebe Street, Penarth, in the family of her married daughter, Elizabeth. Interestingly, in the latter census, her place of birth is recorded as ‘Wodley Bottom, Gloucestershire’.

Harriet died in 1916, aged 81.

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John was baptised in Tetbury. When he was 19, he married Celia Hughes at Hill church, near Berkeley, and they went on to have a large family – eight children in all. John was a farm labourer, and lived in Heathfield, Alkington, and Hill – all near Berkeley, until his death in 1915, aged 77.

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Reproduced with the kind permission of Geoff Gwilliam

In 1841, Richard, William’s brother, was living in lot number 770, circled in blue. It was also rented. Richard was an agricultural labourer. He and Harriet, his wife, had 10 children in all, but only three are in the cohort.

In the ’41 and ’51 Census’, the family were living at Millend, and then lived in Wick, in the western part of the parish, for the following twenty years.

David died in 1842, aged only four. He was buried in North Nibley churchyard.

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William married Hannah Vizard in St Georges, Bristol, in 1860, when he was 24. Both he and Hannah were illiterate, and William is recorded as being a labourer. In 1861, the couple were living at Perrins Mill, Nibley. In 1871, they were living with their son at Wick road, Nibley, near Richard, William’s father. William died in February 1881, aged 45, and was buried at St Martins, North Nibley. His widow was left to look after their two children. She lived for another four decades on Nibley Green.

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Louisa married Moses Bishop, another member of the Nibley cohort, in 1858, when she was 21. The witnesses at the marriage were her brother William, and William’s future wife, Hannah Vizard. All four were illiterate.

In ’61, Moses (a labourer) and Louisa were living in Bradley St, Wotton under Edge with their daughter and Louisa’s sister Mary. In all, the couple had seven children. Ten years later, the family were living in Back Street, Wotton under Edge and Louisa was recorded as being a laundress. In 1881, they had moved to Howley, where Louisa lived until her death in 1928, aged 95. She was buried in the churchyard of St Martins in North Nibley.

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Mary married Frederick Thomas, a labourer, in 1862, at St Mary’s, Wotton under Edge. Again, both were illiterate. In 1861, they were living in Wotton under Edge, on Bradley Street, with two daughters. The eventually had six children. In 1881, the family were living in Adrian Acre in Wotton. Ten years later, they were back on Bradley Street, where they also appeared in 1901. In 1911, the widowed Mary was living with the family of her married daughter in Rubery, Worcestershire.

Mary died in 1915, aged 75, back in Howley, and is buried in North Nibley.