The Webb family

Mary 1832-1891

George 1834-1896

Sarah 1836-

Emma 1840-1843

All were baptised at St Martins, North Nibley

Tithe map used courtesy of Geoff Gwatkin

In 1841, Mary, George, Sarah and Emma were living at the Golden Hart, in Pitcourt.

Their father, Joseph, was a carpenter. His father in law, Nathaniel Greenland, was also living in the household.

Ten years later, Mary and Sarah were still living with their parents at Pitcourt. Emma sadly died in 1843. Also living with the family was Henry Arthur Webb, Mary’s illegitimate child, born that year in Twerton, but not baptised until 1852, in Nibley. I can find no record of Henry after this date.

George was a labourer at Castle Farm in Dursley. Ten years later, in 1862, he was living in Pitcourt again, with his parents and nephew, working as a sawyer. He reappears again in 1881, living in the Kings Head in Uley, with the family of his married sister Sarah, and working as a labourer. In 1891, he is boarding at Heathfield, near Berkeley. He died in Waterley Bottom in 1895, aged 61, and was buried at St Martins, in the village.

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Mary was a servant, in Hastings, at the time of the ’61 Census. A year later, she married Edwin Deason, a seaman. The couple had two sons and, in 1871, were living in Bermondsey, where Edward was working as an outdoor customs officer. The couple had moved to Bow by the time of the next census, and were there at the time of the following census. Mary died shortly afterwards, aged 59. Edwin married later that year, and had another son.

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Sarah was employed as a cook at the Industrial and Agricultural School in Woodmancote, Dursley, in 1861. In 1871, she is living in the Kings Head, Uley, with her husband, George Summers and her two children (they went on to have another child). And her brother George.

The family were still there in 1881, but, at the time of the 1891 Census, George was farming at Binley Farm, in Nibley. Ten years later, George had returned to inn keeping, and the family were living at the White Hart, in the centre of the village. In 1911, the couple were living at Crowell (presumably Crowell Brook) in the village.

George died in 1913, but I have no record on Sarah’s death.