Thomas and Sarah Milled

Thomas (1833-

Sarah (1836-

Map reproduced with the kind permission of Geoff Gwatkin

In 1841, and at the time of the 1847 Tithe Map (where William is recorded as William Millar), Thomas and Sarah lived with William and Sarah, their daughter Mary, and her illegitimate son William. They were in plot number 467, squeezed in at the side of the road. By the time of the OS map issued in 1898, only the outline of the plot remained, and the house had vanished.

Both Sarah and Thomas were Mary’s illegitimate children, Sarah baptised in Berkeley church, and Thomas in St Marys, Wotton under Edge.

William and Sarah (Weeks) had married in 1797, and had had 12 children altogether. William died in 1846, aged 71, and, in 1851, the widowed Sarah was still living in Howley with Mary, employed as a yarn winder, and Mary’s children William, Thomas, and Sarah, who were employed, respectively, as a wood engine driver, and clothworkers. She died in 1858, and was buried in Nibley churchyard.

A year later, in 1852, Mary married William Selby (or Selvey), a labourer, in St Martins, North Nibley. In 1861, the couple were living in Stumpwell, near Howley, with Sarah, who was employed as a yarn spinner. Both Mary and William were agricultural labourers. Interestingly, William had been born in Stepney, London.

Mary died later that year. William married again, to Emma. In 1871, they were living in Huntingford, just outside Nibley parish. William died three years later, in 1874.

Sarah can’t be found after this point.

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Thomas disappeared after 1851.