William Vines (1837-1907) Baptised in Dursley
Julia (1839-1932) baptised at St Mary’s, Wotton under Edge, recorded as living in Coombe.
William and Julia (spelt ‘Jeulea’ in 1841) were living with their parents Samuel, a blacksmith, and Sarah in Nibley Village in 1841, on New Road. Another brother, Enoch, had been christened in 1841 in Nibley church, but died the same year.
Samuel and Sarah had married in 1835, and Samuel is recorded as coming from Kings Stanley.
In 1851, William is recorded as an apprentice blacksmith and there is another apprentice blacksmith living with them. Ten years later, the situation is the same, except that William is now recorded as ‘William Vines Woodward’ and Julia is a schoolmistress. She married George Trotman in 1866, aged 27, but not in Nibley. Instead she married in Bristol, at St Bartholomew’s church in Montpellier.
In 1871, they were living with their three children and a servant. George was recorded as being a shoemaker. He died in 1879, and, in the next Census, the widowed Julia was working as a postmistress, living on New Road, Nibley. She continued working as postmistress until she moved to Henley in Arden, Warwickshire, to be recorded there in the 1911 Census, She died in 1932, aged 93.
Warwick and Warwickshire Advertiser
29th October 1932
DEATH OF OLDEST INHABITANT- The death occurred on Saturday of Henley in Arden’s oldest inhabitant, Mrs Julia Trotman, at the age of 93. She was a remarkable old lady, and up to a short time ago retained all her faculties unimpaired. Even at the last it was only her eyesight and hearing that were affected. She lived with her daughter, Mrs R L Newcombe, at Henley in Arden, for 28 years. For the first 66 years of her life she lived at North Nibley, Gloucestershire, where she was at one time a schoolmistress, and later postmistress.
In 1861, William married Ann Tamlyn in Devon and in 1871 they were living on Gloucester Road, Nibley, with their four children. By the time of Ann’s death in 1889, they had ten children. William died in 1907, aged 70, leaving £118.
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