The Coles were a long-established Nibley family and, in the ’41 Census, Thomas, a carpenter, lived with his wife and five of his eleven children at Pitcourt. Four years earlier, he had been unable to pay his Highway Rate, so was not well off.
Nearby, 2 of his elder children, Samuel and Ann, were living with Joseph Turner, who was probably their grandfather.
William died at the age of 12, before the next Census (his elder sister, Sarah, died prior to this, at the age of six.
In the ’51 census, Elizabeth was living with her uncle’s family, in Uley and Emma was still at home in Pitcourt. Ten years later, Emma was a servant at a school in Clevedon and, in 1864, she married Sidney Cornock. He and his family were the Cole’s next door neighbours in ’41. Sidney’s mother had been widowed in 1844, and she moved to Cradley, in the Black Country with two of her sons and her daughter-in-law, Emma. In 1871, Sidney and his family – his wife, Emma, his mother and 3 children were living on the Back of Park Row, Cradley. Emma died a year later, in 1872, of womb cancer.
Five years later, he married Phoebe Raybould, his household in ’81 was made up of 2 of her children and one of his.
Sidney had a variety of occupations, from labourer, to felt maker, to school attendance officer, and chain maker. He even appears in the Kelly’s Directory of 1884 as a shop keeper. He died in January 1913, a year after Phoebe.
In 1861, Elizabeth was working as a servant in London, and married William Thomas Perrett Gardner in April 1863, in Bristol. She must have been heavily pregnant at the time, as their daughter, Elizabeth Catherine was baptised 5th July that year, and was buried 3 days later. Elizabeth had died at the birth.
Two years later, William married Hester Merriman in Birmingham.
North Nibley One-Place-Study 