Sarah (1834-1918)
All were baptised at St Martins, North Nibley
Henry (1832-1899)
William (1837-1894)
Sidney (1841-1876)
Eliza (1833-1910)
Reproduced with the kind permission of Geoff Gwatkin
William and Amelia Poole lived in number 972 (now part of Waterley Bottom Cottage) in 1841. Nearby, at number 971, was The New Inn, then called the Leather Bottel.
The house and garden were rented from Henry Allen and George Gabb, who also owned numbers 971, 974 and 973. The last two were empty in 1847.
Their son, Edward, rented a house from Elizabeth Lait nearby, at 986. However, he also rented a house at 1144 from the Berkeley Estate, so could have lived in either one.
William, aged 63, was a labourer, but obviously living in poverty, as he was unable pay his Poor Rate in 1838, and his Highway Rate in ’37 and ’38. They were living with their daughter Emma, and their illegitimate grandaughter, Sarah. But had had six other children.
Edward, a weaver, was living with his wife Hester, and five of their children, George, Henry, William, Sidney and Eliza. Three more children were added to the family by the time of the next Census.
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In 1851, Sarah is boarding with Maria Ponting, at Southend, working as a clothworker. Ten years late, she is boarding with the Cullen family in Shepton Mallet, and working as a crepe weaver. Also in the household was Jonah Cullen, 13 years younger, who she married in 1867.
In ’71 the couple were living in Town Lane, Shepton Mallett. Jonah was a basket weaver, and Sarah a silk weaver. In’ 81 the same
In 1891, Jonah was living at Gillingham Prison, working as an assistant warder, and Sarah was with him. He died in December 1899, in Priestleigh (near Shepton Mallett) leaving Sarah as the executor of his will.
Earlier that year, in May, he had bought a cottage in Priestleigh for £92. Presumably this was Myrtle Cottage, where Sarah was living at the time of her death. In 1901 she was living with her cousin in Priestleigh, and a decade later, she was living alone there. She died in 1918, aged 84.
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Henry was working as a farm labourer at a farm in Henbury, Bristol, in 1851. In 1857, he married Hannah Dash in St Martins, North Nibley. She was 12 years older than him. At the next Census, in 1861, he and Hannah were living back in the same area of the parish that Henry originally came from, with their daughter Sarah, born two years previously. In ’71, they were in Forthay, and the family now included their son Frederick. Ten and twenty years later, Henry, Hannah and Frederick were still living in Back Lane, Forthay.
In 1899, Henry and Hannah died within two days of each other.
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In 1851, Eliza was still living at home, and was recorded as being a nurse girl (perhaps to help with her five younger siblings). In 1861, she and younger younger sister Emma (aged only 11) were living in Dursley with the Cull family, as house servants. In 1871, she was back with her parents, listed as being an ‘invalid through consumption’. Next door was George Jones, an agricultural labourer thirty years older than her, whom she married later that year. George’s previous wife, Sophia, had died only at the end of the previous year.
In 1881, the widowed Eliza was living in Waterley Bottom with her father, who was also widowed. In ’91 and ’01, Eliza was living in Eglantine Place, Wotton under Edge.
She died in 1910, aged 77.
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William was baptised in July 1837. Before him, another William Poole had been baptised in June 1836, but wad died in July 1837.
In 1851, aged 14, he was living with his family and was an agricultural labourer. He was still with his family 10 years later, in 1861.
In 1863 he married Mary Ann Wyatt, and they had a daughter, Elizabeth, the following year. But Mary Ann died in 1865, and he married Lois Gillimar (or Jellyman) in 1867. The family (William, Lois, Elizabeth and a new daughter, Clara Lois) were living in Waterley Bottom Cottages, where they were still living in 1881, with two more children.
William, Lois, and their son Cecil were living in Forthay by the time of the ’91 Census.
William died in 1894, aged 57 and was buried in St Martins churchyard. Lois
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Sidney lived with his parents, and worked as an agricultural labourer. But, oddly, he married Matilda Cook in Suffolk, in 1869 (however, Matilda was working as a servant for the vicar of Kingswood, just outside Wotton under Edge in ’61).In 1871, he and Matilda were living in the Piercefield Inn, just outside Chepstow, where he worked as a coachman.
They had a son, Ernest Cuthbert, in 1872, but Sidney died in 1876, aged 35. They had moved again by that point, as his address was given as Lower Mill, Panty and he was buried in the churchyard at Trevethin, just outside Pontypool.
In 1895 Matilda married John Rosser, a labourer, in Llanhilleth, Monmouthshire. They lived in Upper Race, Pontypool, until her death in 1922.
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