TORTWORTH, NORTH NIBLEY, CHARFIELD, CHURCHEND & FALFIELD - Links
(Gloucestershire, England)



Above:
St. Martin's Church, North Nibley.
Right: St George's Falfield

Above:
St. John's Church, Charfield.

Above:
St. James Church, Churchend.
Courtesy of John Wilkes
You will find a large collection of photos of the
Cotswolds and most of Gloucestershire on his
web site - The Gloucestershire Photo Library:
http://www.awdt59.dsl.pipex.com/xglos.shtml



Above old photo of
St. Martin's Church, North Nibley.
Right old B/W photos of St Mary's, Tortworth and interior
Courtesy of David Hedges
http://www.easywell.co.uk/dave/index.html
dave@davehedges.co.uk

Bottom two photos on right
Charfield school and Charfield station
Below Black Horse Inn, North Nibley
Courtesy of Karen Underwood at
http://cotswoldedge.org.uk/
More resources on site

Links to people researching families in TORTWORTH, NORTH NIBLEY, CHARFIELD, CHURCHEND & FALFIELD and surrounds
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If you have ANY interests in SURNAMES in this Parish PLEASE contact me, so that you will be added to this list
















Above:
St. Leonard's Church, Tortworth.
Bottom: Nibley House
Courtesy of John Wilkes

Now added the
B,M,D's of North Nibley 1567-1837


SURNAMES LISTED BELOW:
BALLARD, BARTON, BEARD, BENNETT, BETTERTON, BURLEY, CARPENTER, CLARK, CLARKE, CROOME, DODGE, DRAISEY, DRAYSEY, DUNN, FOWLER, FURLEY, GEORGE, GOODING, GREEN, GRIMES, HADLEY, HALE, HALL, HARPER, HEWER, HITCHINS, HOBBY, HOOPER, HOWSE, IDDLES , JACKMAN, JAKEMAN, LANCHBURY, LEE, LIVALL, LUSMORE, MARSH, MAY, MONDAY, MUNDAY, NEWMAN, PEGLAR, PONTING, POPE, POVEY, PRATT, PULLIN, RAINES, RICHARDS, RICHINGS, RICKETTS, ROBINSON, ROWBERRY, ROWLAND, SHORT, SMETHAM, SMITH, STOCKWELL, SUMMERS, TEAGLE, TILL, TILLEY, TROTMAN, TUDOR, TULLY, TURNER, VERNON, WATTS, WEBB, WHITE, WHITFIELD, WORKMAN, WYATT
Adrian John Ballard of Bristol, UK
Ballard Family History Queries
Ballard1 @Blueyonder.co.uk
"
A COLLECTION OF BALLARD's" Web Site
http://members.lycos.co.uk/
AdrianBallard/index.html

WANTED, UK BALLARD'S ANY TIME ANY PLACE

S.M.Stonefield, My great great grandfather lived in North NibleyÊ Gloucester, UK.,Êin the nineteenth century. His name was James
SMETHAM and he married Harriet TURNER Êin 1822, in North Nibley. My great grandfather was born July 1822Ê in North Nibley. His name was Henry SMETHAM. My grandfather told me this, and I have confirmed it using the IGI Index. Four years later a James SMETHAM married an Elizabeth WYATT in North Nibley. (IGI Index) This I think is the James SMETHAM in the 1851 census for North Nibley, which suggests Harriet died, but I need to work on this. James was used quite often as a first name.
In the 1851 census James is recorded as CCW. Henry was a master weaver (my grandfather said so, and Henry's son mentioned it in a small booklet). so it is likely James was a weaver too so I suppose CW could stand for cloth weaver, the other C I don't know.
He was born, according to the census, in Ilnister, which I haven't found yet, but suspect it may be Ilminster - in Somerset perhaps.
jane @worlock.me.uk

Alf Beard, researching the
BEARD, GEORGE, HALL, HARPER, HEWER, HOBBY, IDDLES , LIVALL (and variants), LUSMORE, PRATT, ROWBERRY, SHORT, SMITH, TEAGLE, TILLEY, TROTMAN, TUDOR, TULLY & WHITE of Tortworth
costume @btinternet.com

Julian Shepherd, researching the
HADLEY families from North Nibley from 1500;Ê Wotton under Edge and Stinchcombe from 1700;Ê ÊCoaley, Cam and Berkeley from 1800;Ê and Frocester from 1840.
Would like to hear from anyone with an interest in or knowledge ofÊ any of these families.
julian.shepherd @ukgateway.net
140, St Martins Road, Finham, Coventry, CV3Ê 6ER, England

Daryl Povey, researching my
POVEY and HOOPER ancestors from North Nibley, Charfield, Kingswood and other nearby parishes. Prior to 1700 my POVEY families were located in the neighbouring counties of Wiltshire and Berkshire back into the 1500s. Would be happy to hear from anyone with an interest in these names.
povey @ncable.net.au
17 Norman St., Ballarat, VIC 3350, Australia

Robert Stockwell, reaching Robert
STOCKWELL who married Elizabeth (Betty) MUNDAY (MONDAY) in North Nibley in May 1760. The Parish marriage details imply Robert came from / lived in Bibury. I have not yet found any other record of him and would like to put a request up for information under Bibury and North Nibley. My ancestors seem to have been well spread across Gloucestershire; Bibury, North Nibley, Stroud, Saul, Kings Stanley, Leonard Stanley, and Dursley.
bob.stockwell @clara.co.uk
85 Eastgate, Deeping St James, Peterborough, PE6 8HH, UK

Clive Owen researching the
ROBINSON families of North Nibley.
cliveowen @blueyonder.co.uk
May Lanchbury, Researching the LANCHBURY family all dates.
mayndave@bigpond.net.au
5 Kildare Place, Beldon 6027, W.Australia
ListMum for LANCHBURY-L @rootsweb.com

Carole Sharp, researching the
WATTS & WHITFIELD families all dates, Falfield.
sharpafc @btinternet.com
152 Wenallt Road, Rhiwbina, Cardiff, CF14 6TQ

Nick Mayne, I am researching the
DRAISEY / DRAYSEY family of Nibley and Tortworth areas, So far the family has been traced back to approx 1550.
c.n.mayne @btinternet.com
26 Shelston Tor Drive, Paignton, DevonÊEngland

Terry Waters-Marsh, researching
MARSH, RICHARDS / RICKETTS in Tortworth all dates
T.Waters-Marsh @cqu.edu.au
Senior Lecturer in Organisational Studies & HRM
Faculty of Business & Law
Central Queensland University
Rockhampton Queensland 4701
Australia

May Sims, researching the
WEBB family. Matilda WEBB was born at North Nibley 30/5/1813. Parents Ann HILL & Thomas WEBB. The WEBB family were in the wool & cloth trade . Matilda learnt the trade at Dursley. She married Samuel FURLEY on 9/5/1835. They left for NZ in 1837. Would be interested to hear from anyone researching these families
maysims @xtra.co.nz
New Zealand

Glyn Hale researching
HALE in Berkeley, Cromhall, Falfield, Hill, Ham, Stone, Tortworth and Woodford.
me @halefamily.net
HALE Family History
http://halefamily.net
www.gill.halefamily.net
www.oakdalevillage.net
www.kingsheadfrancelynch.co.uk
Chalford Hill, Gloucestershire, England

Nicolas Danican, I directly descend from John
TROTMAN, baptized on 20 February 1769 at North Nibley and married at Wotton on 1 June 1794. His daughter Mary TROTMAN (1796-1880) emigrated to Le Havre, France and have many descendants.
I would like to know more about my ancestors and possible cousins.
nicolas.danican @noos.fr
8 parc de la Berengere F92210 Saint-Cloud, France.

Sue Ross, I am interested in anybody appearing on the 1841 census forÊthe parish of North Nibley aged up to 10 years old.
sross @waitrose.com

G R LEA. One of my ancestors, Charles
LEE (1801-1879), married a Mary PULLIN (1813-1884), daughter of a prominent local man (Churchwarden, etc.) called Lawford PULLIN (1780-1853 - lived at Olveston House, Heath End - not far from Cromhall). Also researching CROOME - large family in Cromhall with branches at North Nibley, etc. nearby. One part of the family made good in brewing and banking (North Nibley) and became big local landowners across South Gloucestershire during the C19th (one branch from them, the CROOME-JAKEMANS / JACKMANS, settled at Breadstone House, Breadstone).
G.R.Lea @btinternet.com

Eliz Hanebury. researchingÊin the North Nibley area
MUNDAY, MAYand PONTING families.
144 Gibble Hill Rd. Quarryville, PA USA 17566
elizhgene @gmail.com
Dave Hedges, researching the FOWLER family - 1880's, and WORKMAN family of Charfield
dave @davehedges.co.uk
Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, England

Leona Waghorne researching in North Nibley:
William
CLARKE ch.16/7/1772 North Nibley, married 15/12/1794 Eleanor
CARPENTER. Children:
1.Henry
CLARKE ch.1797 North Nibley, married Elizabeth.
2.Hester ch.1800 North Nibley.
3.Charlotte ch 1803 North Nibley, married 1827 North Nibley Benjamin
DODGE.
4.James ch. 1805 North Nibley
5.Thomas ch. 1807 North Nibley, married 1824 North Nibley Rachael
SUMMERS
6.Harriett ch.1808 North Nibley
7.Edward ch 1810 North Nibley, transported to Australia in 1829 as a convict, married 1847 Australia Bridget
FEENEY.
8.Cornilius born abt 1811 married Ann.
dora38 @bigpond.com

Debbie Miles, I'm reseaching the
GRIMES family of North Nibley all dates.
velcro @iprimus.com.au

Cynthia Betteridge, researching names in Fairford:
RAINES, DUNN, ROWLAND, GREEN, BETTERTON, HOWSE my 6xgrandfather and grandmother being William and Catherine (Katherine) HOWSE (HOWSE) who married in 1695. Also Joseph BENNETT (b)1849 Cheltenham son of Benjamin BENNETT (b) North Nibbley and Sarah CLARK (b) Meysey Hampton. He married Jane NEWMAN (b) abt1855(?) (c) Kempsford daughter of Edmund NEWMAN (b) Kempsford and Elizabeth NEWMAN (they where cousins).
cynthia.betteridge @virgin.net

Bill Grimes, I am searching the
GRIMES family of North Nibley from 1840 back.
billvettman @netzero.net
154 River St. Hudson,Ma. 01749 USA

Ann Daniel, researching the ancestors and descendents of Edward
MUNDAY and Betty GOODING, in Berkeley, Bevington and North Nibley,
covering the period 1650 - 1800.
atdaniel @ozconnect.net
Australia

Stephen Pegler, researching the
PEGLAR family anywhere
spegler919 @aol.com

Joan E. Hunt (nee Hitchins): My connections are
HITCHINS of Dursley, VERNON and BURLEY of North Nibley, VERNON also of the Guitings, Sandhurst, Arlingham and Barnwood, RICHINGS of Hawkesbury Upton, Preston and South Cerney, BURLEY of Newport and Berkeley - all of them 1600-1800 before my great-grandfather Frederic HITCHINS came to Melbourne, Australia in 1839 when marvellous Melbourne was just a village.Ê The HITCHINS are my father's family, and the RICHINGS are my mother's.Ê I would love to hear from anyone with links.
joanhunt @ncable.net.au

Cheryl Munro. The family names I am researching Êin the North Nibley area are
BARTON, POPE, FOWLER, TILL, and WATTS. Also wanting to know about the Wallington name that keeps popping up as middle names.
cherro @telus.net