Stroud-water Convicts Spreadsheet 1788-1842

Stroud-water Convicts Spreadsheet 1788-1842

NameAgeJobParishShipDestinationSentenceDate
John Griffin28LabourerAveningTottenhamNew South WalesLife1818
George Ansloe18LabourerBisleyManliusVan Diemen’s Land7 years1828
William Bacchus15LabourerBisleyManliusVan Diemen’s Land7 years1828
Peter Brown21LabourerBisleyBengal merchantNew South Wales7 years1834
John Davis20LabourerBisleyLaytonVan Diemen’s Land15 years1841
Richard Dew43WeaverBisleyAuroraVan Diemen’s LandLife1835
Richard Eddles30CarrierBisleyShipleyNew South Wales14 years1821
William Haines25MarineBisleyLord LyndochNew South WalesLife1833
William Hooper17LabourerBisleyManliusVan Diemen’s Land15 years1828
Isaac King18SawyerBisleyEdenNew South Wales15 years1840
William King40SawyerBisleyEdenNew South WalesLife1840
Samuel Munsden36No occupationBisleyRecoveryNew South WalesLife1819
William Nicholls21CarpenterBisleyGeorgianaVan Diemen’s LandLife1828
John Parsons24BargemanBisleyCoromandelVan Diemen’s Land14 years1837
Levi Poulson25StonemasonBisleyNorfolkNew South Waleslife1836
William Scrivens48LabourerBisleyAgamemnonNew South Wales7 years1820
James smith26LabourerBisleyTottenhamVan Diemen’s Land7 years1818
George Taylor29Cloth-workerBisleyWaterlooNew South WalesLife1837
Jesse Tyler25Slater PlastererBisleyParmeliaNew South WalesLife1832
John Wall21LabourerBisleyCoromandelVan Diemen’s Land30 years1838
John Winslaw26LabourerBisleyLady RidleyVan Diemen’s Land7 years1821
George Bidmead22Cloth-workerBrimscombeNithsdaleNew South Wales14 years1830
Samuel Tocknell 22LabourerBrimscombeSusanNew South Wales7 years1830
Peter Williams23LabourerBrimscombeAsiaVan Diemen’s LandLife1835
Thomas Cooke22LabourerCainscrossBataviaNew South Wales7 years1835
William Nicholls22LabourerCainscrossSusanNew South Wales7 years1835
Cornelius Bendall23LabourerCamAlbionNew South Wales7 years1828
Daniel Ludlow20LabourerCamPrince RegentVan Diemen’s LandLife1829
George Ludlow25LabourerCamBussorah MerchantVan Diemen’s LandLife1829
John martin20LabourerCamHenry TannerNew South WalesLife1834
Samuel Rudge31WeaverCamManliusVan Diemen’s Land7 years1830
Thomas Rudge24WeaverCamManliusVan Diemen’s Land7 years1830
John Sandford41LabourerCamemilyVan Diemen’s Land10 years1842
Thomas Sinigar18WeaverCamAmericaNew South Wales7 years1829
James White19ButcherCamDunveganNew South Wales7 years1829
Thomas Wilkins26WeaverCamNithsdaleNew South Wales7 years1830
Joseph Berriman20LabourerChalfordSpekeNew South WalesLife1820
Thomas Berriman22ShoemakerChalfordLloydsNew South WalesLife1833
William Berriman55Cloth-workerChalfordSpekeNew South WalesLife1820
Thomas Davis20WatermanChalfordClaudineNew South Wales14 years1829
Benjamin King26No occupationChalfordJohnNew South WalesLife1832
Samuel Ridler21Cloth-workerChalfordManliusVan Diemen’s Land7 years1830
John Smith19BlacksmithChalfordRed RoverVan Diemen’s LandLife1830
Thomas Blunson32LabourerCoaleyWoodmanVan Diemen’s LandLife1825
Enoch Elliotts20Flock-dresserCoaleyLaytonVan Diemen’s Land7 years1835
Eli Parsloe15No occupationCoaleyCoromandelVan Diemen’s Land7 years1838
Isaac Powell20LabourerCoaleyYorkNew South Wales7 years1830
William Aldridge 23LabourerDursleyLloydsNew South Wales14 years 1833
John Bendall51LabourerDursleyHeroineNew South Wales7 years 1833
John Brothers23Mill-manDursleyLord LyndochNew South Wales14 years 1833
William Champion22HatterDursleyAsiaVan Diemen’s Land14 years 1823
James Cross14LabourerDursleyRoyal SovereignVan Diemen’s Land7 years 1837
Edward Davis19LabourerDursleyPrincess CharlotteVan Diemen’s Land7 years1824
George Davis17Twine-spinnerDursleyPrincess CharlotteVan Diemen’s Land7 years1824
John Davis20ShoemakerDursleyPrincess CharlotteVan Diemen’s Land7 years1824
John Davis35No occupationDursleyParkfieldNew South Wales14 years1839
Joseph Moody Fletcher22ServantDursleyPrince RegentVan Diemen’s LandLife1829
Henry Ford17LabourerDursleyGeorge the ThirdVan Diemen’s Land7 years1834
Sarah Ford21ServantDursleyPlatinaNew South Wales7 years1836
George Grace23GardenerDursleyHeroineNew South Wales7 years1833
Edward Groves 38LabourerDursleyElizabethVan Diemen’s Land14 years1831
James Grove42ShearmanDursleyLarkinsVan Diemen’s Land14 years1831
Daniel Harrill26LabourerDursleyLord LyndochNew South Wales7 years1833
Joseph Harrold18LabourerDursleyNeptuneVan Diemen’s Land14 years1837
Joseph Herring31LabourerDursleyMariaVan Diemen’s Land7 years1820
John Heath19LabourerDursleyWilliam MilesVan Diemen’s LandLife1828
Elijah Hill23LabourerDursleyWilliam MilesVan Diemen’s Land7 years 1829
George Hill22LabourerDursleyMariaVan Diemen’s Landlife1829
Thomas Hitchins26ShoemakerDursleyCoromandelVan Diemen’s Land7 years1838
David Mabbett31WeaverDursleyEmperor AlexanderVan Diemen’s Land7 years1838
David Morgan27Millman and cloth-rowerDursleyGarland GroveVan Diemen’s Land7 years 1831
Eliza Newthe25BurlerDursleyLucky DavidsonNew South Wales14 years1829
William Nicholls27Spinner Private. MilitiaDursleyAsiaVan Diemen’s LandLife1823
George Smith18Clothing BusinessDursleyLarkinsVan Diemen’s Land7 years1821
Henry Smith23ClothierDursleyAsiaVan Diemen’s Land14 years1833
William Tallboys24LabourerDursleyAtlasVan Diemen’s Land7 years1822
Thomas Watts16LabourerDursleyGeorgianaVan Diemen’s Land7 years1828
William White15LabourerDursleyMermaidNew South WalesLife1829
Henry Williams 27LabourerDursleyHeroineNew South Wales14 years1833
Joseph Wyman38SpinnerDursleyBlenheimVan Diemen’s Land14 years1836
Charles Bailey 19LabourerEastingtonCoromandelVan Diemen’s LandLife1838
Thomas Bendall34WatermanEastingtonDuncanVan Diemen’s Land7 years1840
Susan Partridge 32LabourerEastingtonHarmonyVan Diemen’s Land14 years1827
George Price17LabourerEastingtonAndromedaVan Diemen’s LandLife1826
John Merret33Cloth-workerEastingtonCoromandelVan Diemen’s LandLife1838
Thomas Morgan23LabourerEastingtonNithsdaleVan Diemen’s Land7 years 1830
Aaron Ashmead26fishmongerHorsleyGilmoreVan Diemen’s Land15 years 138
John Beard 22Billy-SpinnerHorsleyLarkinsVan Diemen’s Land7 years1831
David Bishop19LabourerHorsleyEdenVan Diemen’s Land7 years (CTR or Life1836
Sampson Brinkworth28LabourerHorsleyPrince of OrangeVan Diemen’s LandLife1822
Charlotte Clifford18LabourerHorsleyNumaNew South Wales14 years1834
William Dangerfield42LabourerHorsleyLord LyndochVan Diemen’s LandLife1831
John Gardner 44WeaverHorsleyManglesNew South Wales14 years1820
Robert Humphries19LabourerHorsleyManliusVan Diemen’s Land7 years1830
William Humphries25CarpenterHorsleyDunveganNew South Wales7 years1829
Joseph Hyde59WeaverHorsleyLord RafflesVan Diemen’s Land7 years1840
Edwin Jenkins 20LabourerHorsleyBurrellNew South Wales7 years1830
James Lovett22PlastererHorsleyLord LyndochVan Diemen’s Landlife1831
James Osborne30LabourerHorsleyEmperor AlexanderVan Diemen’s Land7 years1833
George Pegler22WeaverHorsleyManliusVan Diemen’s Land7 years1830
Daniel Rickards19Cloth-workerHorsleyMoffattVan Diemen’s Land7 years 1837
Esay Risby23LabourerHorsleyHuntleyNew South WalesLife1835
Robert Saunders40LabourerHorsleyLord LyndochNew South Wales15 years1838
John Sutton 23LabourerHorsleyPrince RegentVan Diemen’s LandLife1828
Thomas Taynton23LabourerHorsleyPersianVan Diemen’s Land7 years1822
Samuel Walkley18LabourerHorsleysusanNew South Wales7 years1834
Edward Window22No occupationHorsleyManglesNew South Wales7 years1839
Thomas Window52Served for MilitaryHorsleyNorfolkVan Diemen’s Land7 years1826
Peter Aldridge25ShearerKing StanleyAndromedaVan Diemen’s Land7 years1826
Richard Baker23LabourerKing StanleyElizabeth 1New South Wales7 years1820
George Beard23Cloth-workerKing StanleyJohn Barry7 years1834
John BloodworthLabourerKing StanleyJohnNew South Wales7 years1836
James Coleman 23ShearmanKing StanleyRed RoverVan Diemen’s Land7 years1830
Samuel Harrison23MasonKing StanleyShipleyNew South Wales14 years1818
John Howard17WeaverKing StanleyManliusVan Diemen’s Land7 years1828
William Jenkins38LabourerKing StanleyMalabarVan Diemen’s Land7 years1821
Jesse King22WeaverKing StanleySomersetshireVan Diemen’s Land21 years1841
Thomas LongNo occupationKing StanleyHenry TannerLife1834
Nathaniel Lusty34WeaverKing StanleyMariaVan Diemen’s Land7 years1820
Richard Pegler24MilitiaKing StanleyElizabethNew South Wales7 years1820
Thomas smith48WeaverKing StanleyMariaVan Diemen’s Land14 years1820
John Clark17LabourerLeonard StanleyYork New South Wales7 years1830
Susannah Clarke20DressmakerLeonard StanleyGrenadaNew South Wales7 years1826
Charles Pegler20ButcherLeonard StanleyRed RoverVan Diemen’s Landlife1830
Daniel Powell22ShearmanLeonard StanleyAsiaVan Diemen’s Land14 years1827
Charles Redman27WeaverLeonard StanleyJohnNew South WalesLife1827
William Redman47WeaverLeonard StanleyLady HugentNew South WalesLife1834
William Redman20LabourerLeonard StanleyEdenVan Diemen’s Land7 years1836
Charles Wastson21Turner and fillerLeonard StanleyAsiaVan Diemen’s Land14 Years (CTR) or 7 years1827
John Adams22LabourerMinchinhamptonDuncanVan Diemen’s Land22 years1840
Samuel Antill35WeaverMinchinhamptonMariaVan Diemen’s Land7 years1819
James Alder27MasonMinchinhamptonJohn 1 New South WalesLife1831
Thomas Baker20WeaverMinchinhamptonDavid LyonVan Diemen’s Land7 years1830
Joseph Blackwell21LabourerMinchinhamptonKatherine stewartVan Diemen’s Land7 years1832
Mary Ann Browning17Clothing BusinessMinchinhamptonAmericaVan Diemen’s Land7 years1831
Nicholas Browning19Clothing BusinessMinchinhamptonSurreyVan Diemen’s Land7 years1821
Maria Bryant 18ServantMinchinhamptonFrances CharlotteVan Diemen’s Land7 years1832
James Bucknall20LabourerMinchinhamptonKatherine stewartVan Diemen’s LandLife1832
Frederick Clark20No occupationMinchinhamptonGilmoreVan Diemen’s LandLife1838
James Davis23LabourerMinchinhamptonJohnNew South Wales7 years1827
George Drew18WeaverMinchinhamptonStrathfieldsayVan Diemen’s Land7 years1831
James Evans 50No occupationMinchinhamptonAtlanticNew South Wales7 years1791
Job Evans20PainterMinchinhamptonMarquis of huntleyNew South WalesLife1835
Robert Evans40CarpenterMinchinhamptonMermaidNew South WalesLife1829
Elias Grange22LabourerMinchinhamptonRecoveryNew South Wales7 years1819
Thomas Grange27LabourerMinchinhamptonAsiaVan Diemen’s Land7 years1827
Thomas Grist 26LabourerMinchinhamptonSouthworthVan Diemen’s Land7 years1839
James Kirby20Cloth worker, Deserted from 89th regMinchinhamptonEdenVan Diemen’s LandLife1836
Samuel Kirby18Cloth workerMinchinhamptonNorfolkNew South Wales14 years1836
John Lock17LabourerMinchinhamptonClaudineNew South Wales14 years1829
John Long 20WeaverMinchinhamptonKatherine Stewart ForbesNew South Wales7 years1832
Thomas Pitt23WatermanMinchinhamptonCompetitionVan Diemen’s Land14 years1823
Richard Reed18LabourerMinchinhamptonRed roverVan Diemen’s Landlife1830
Edwin Smith26LabourerMinchinhamptonSurrey Van Diemen’s Land7 years1832
Joseph Smith20LabourerMinchinhamptonAsiaVan Diemen’s Land7 years1840
William Stephens21LabourerMinchinhamptonBussorah MerchantNew South Wales14 years1829
William Walker41Traveller with hardwareMinchinhamptonRed RoverVan Diemen’s Land14 years1830
Peter Aldridge25ShearerNailsworthAndromeda Van Diemen’s Land7 years1826
James Eddals26No occupationNailsworthMoffattVan Diemen’s Land14 years1837
William Haskins19Cloth-factorymanNailsworthNeptuneVan Diemen’s LandLife1837
George Lane20SawyerNailsworthJohnNew South WalesLife1836
John Newman24LabourerNailsworthPrincess RoyalNew South Wales7 years1822
Thomas Ridler32WeaverNailsworthLarkinsNew South WalesLife1817
James Skirton22LabourerNailsworthAsiaNew South Wales7 years1833
Charles Smart 19Cloth-workerNailsworthHenry WellesleyNew South WalesLife1837
Elias Black 23LabourerNorth NibleySusanVan Diemen’s Land7 years1842
Edward Clarke 17LabourerNorth NibleySurreyVan Diemen’s LandLife1829
James Clarke18BlacksmithNorth NibleyJohn 1 New South WalesLife1827
Thomas Clarke20ShoemakerNorth NibleySir Charles ForbesVan Diemen’s Land14 years1830
William Cole20LabourerNorth NibleyNithsdaleNew South WalesLife1830
Thomas Cornock22WeaverNorth NibleyRoyal CharlotteNew South WalesLife1825
George Gabb25No occupationNorth NibleySurreyVan Diemen’s Land7 years1832
William Gazzard28LabourerNorth NibleyLord LyndochNew South Wales14 years1838
Josiah Hancock22WeaverNorth NibleyJohnNew South WalesLife1827
Sarah Harrison 18ServantNorth NibleyAmericaVan Diemen’s Land7 years1831
Joseph Hobbs26LabourerNorth NibleyLaytonNew South Wales7 years1829
Isaac LeggScribblerNorth NibleyNeptuneNew South Wales7 years1790
Isaac Perrott23ClothierNorth NibleyHadlowNew South Wales7 years1818
Thomas Smith28Labourer, formely in local MilitiaNorth NibleyGuildfordNew South Wales7 years1827
Mary Tavender20ServantNorth NibleyGarland GroveVan Diemen’s Land7 years1841
George Taylor26LabourerNorth NibleyAsiaVan Diemen’s Land14 years1833
William Bushell19LabourerNympsfieldPersianVan Diemen’s LandLife1830
Thomas Daucney27WeaverOwlpenAmericaNew South Wales7 years1829
John Webb22LabourerOwlpenPersianVan Diemen’s Land7 years1830
Ann Alder37LabourerPainswickEmma EugeniaVan Diemen’s Land7 years1841
Henry Beard15Cloth-wrokerPainswickFlorentiaNew South WalesLife1827
Samuel Beard23HatterPainswickLady RidleyVan Diemen’s Land7 years1821
John Birt 32ServantPainswickDuncanVan Diemen’s Land14 years (CTR) or life1840
Benjamin Cook30LabourerPainswickGilmoreVan Diemen’s LandLife1838
Carles Cook53WeaverPainswickPersianVan Diemen’s Land7 years1830
Isaac Estcourt40WeaverPainswickLord HungerfordNew South Wales7 years1821
James Green27LabourerPainswickBengal merchantVan Diemen’s Land14 years1828
William Haines20LabourerPainswickLady RidleyVan Diemen’s Land7 years1821
Thomas Lane19ServantPainswickHeroineNew South Wales7 years1833
Jacob Twining 20LabourerPainswickLord LyndochVan Diemen’s Land7 years1837
Thomas Twining22BakerPainswickRecoveryVan Diemen’s Land7 years1837
Henry Wager20LabourerPainswickLord LyndochVan Diemen’s LandLife1836
William Cratchley21LabourerRandwickGilmoreVan Diemen’s Land15 years1838
John Watkins 21Edge-tool makerRandwickAndromedaVan Diemen’s LandLife1826
William Biggers26Cloth-dresserRodboroughElphinstoneVan Diemen’s Land7 years1836
John Buck26ShearerRodboroughLord HungerfordVan Diemen’s LandLife1821
James Cole34StonemasonRodboroughAuroraVan Diemen’s LandLife1835
Thomas Dalby 35LabourerRodboroughEmperor AlexanderVan Diemen’s Land7 years1833
Thomas Daniel16LabourerRodboroughShipleyNew South Wales7 years1818
Thomas Evans23BakerRodboroughRed roverVan Diemen’s LandLife1830
Nathaniel Hodges40Cloth-dresserRodboroughElphinstoneVan Diemen’s Land7 years1836
Thomas Latham18Cloth-workerRodboroughIsabellaVan Diemen’s LandLife1833
Benjamin Lewis27Cloth-dresserRodboroughLord LyndochNew South Wales7 years1838
George Matthews24LabourerRodboroughMoffattNew South Wales7 years1836
William Niblett42WeaverRodboroughManglesNew South WalesLife1820
James Walkley50LabourerRodboroughMermaidNew South Wales7 years1820
William Wathen23LabourerRodboroughLord MelvilleVan Diemen’s Land14 years1818
Benjamin Pearce23LabourerRuscombeJohnNew South WalesLife1832
John Anthony18Cloth-rowerStonehouseMinstrelNew South Wales7 years1824
Peter Bowyer21Clock-cleanerStonehouseEdenNew South Wales30 years1840
John Browning35LabourerStonehouseWoodbridgeNew South Wales14 years1839
Edward Evans19LabourerStonehouseKatherine Stewart ForbesVan Diemen’s Land7 years1839
Jane Morgan24LabourerStonehouseHenry WellesleyVan Diemen’s Land7 years1837
Barnaby Alder24Wool-sorterStroudPersianVan Diemen’s LandLife1830
Isaac Alder22MasonStroudPersianVan Diemen’s LandLife1830
John Alder20LabourerStroudPersianVan Diemen’s LandLife1831
George Antill20LabourerStroudLayton 1New South Wales7 years1829
John Apperley23ShoemakerStroudHenry TannerNew South WalesLife1834
John Barnett28Cloth-dresserStroudLloydsNew South Wales7 years1833
George Berry23LabourerStroudEmperor AlexanderVan Diemen’s Land7 years1833
Samuel Bowley27No occupationStroudLord SidmouthNew South Wales7 years1818
James Browning 26WeaverStroudAtlasNew South Wales7 years1819
William Burton 16No occupationStroudLord ShipleyNew South Wales7 years1821
Henry Clayfield22LabourerStroudLord LyndochVan Diemen’s Land15 years1840
Ambrose Clissold27No occupationStroudAtlanticNew South Wales7 years1791
Samuel Clissold27Labourer, former MarineStroudBaringNew South WalesLife1819
William Clissold34WeaverStroudSpekeNew South WalesLife1826
John cook14LabourerStroudRoyal SovereignVan Diemen’s Land7 years 1837
Thomas Cousins46No occupationStroudAtlanticNew South Wales7 years1791
William Cox23Cloth-workerStroudAsiaNew South Wales7 years1833
Richard Daniels21ShearerStroudLord hungerfordVan Diemen’s LandLife1821
Daniel Fletcher21ServantStroudEarl GreyNew South Wales7 years1838
Samuel Gabb21Cloth-rowerStroudDavid LyonVan Diemen’s Land7 years1830
John Gardner 17Recovery StroudRecoveryVan Diemen’s Land7 years1837
Abraham Gaston 20WeaverStroudJohn BarryNew South WalesLife1835
John Grimes18LabourerStroudJames PattisonNew South Wales7 years1837
Charles Grist35Cloth-workerStroudDavid LyonVan Diemen’s Land7 years1830
James Hall19Cloth-workerStroudMoffattVan Diemen’s LandLife1837
John Hall19No occupationStroudShipleyNew South Wales7 years1818
Peter Hall21ShoemakerStroudMoffattVan Diemen’s Land15 years1837
Thomas Hall18LabourerStroudCountess of HarcourtNew South WalesLife1824
William Harper30No occupationStroudRecoveryVan Diemen’s Land7 years1837
Joseph Holder17ClothworkerStroudCaledoniaVan Diemen’s LandLife1822
Thomas Holder21StockworkerStroudClaudineNew South Wales7 years1829
Charles Howard22StonemasonStroudBengal merchantNew South Wales7 years1836
Edward Hudd33LabourerStroudAugusta JessieVan Diemen’s Land7 years1838
William Jones19LabourerStroudTortoiseVan Diemen’s Land10 years1841
David Keene23WeaverStroudElizabethVan Diemen’s Land7 years1832
Daniel Knee15Cloth-mill workerStroudSpekeNew South WalesLife1826
William lander25Clothing BusinessStroudElphinstoneVan Diemen’s Land7 years1837
William Marmont18WeaverStroudCountess of HarcourtNew South WalesLife1824
James Matthews24BlacksmithStroudWilliam MilesVan Diemen’s LandLife1828
Sarah Mills48 ServantStroudGarland GroveVan Diemen’s Land7 years1841
John Motley36No occupationStroudRecoveryNew South WalesLife1819
Henry Nicholls19Rope-spinnerStroudMoffattVan Diemen’s Land7 years1837
Richard Nicholls25StonemasonStroudJohnNew South WalesLife1832
Thomas Papps16LabourerStroudJames PattisonNew South Wales7 years1837
William Parker23Cloth-workerStroudBengal merchantVan Diemen’s Land7 years1828
William Parker19Cloth-workerStroudBengal merchantVan Diemen’s Land7 years1828
John Parsons22LabourerStroudElphinstoneVan Diemen’s Land7 years1837
Richard Pilliner18Pig-dealerStroudLord LyndochVan Diemen’s LandLife1836
Henry Pitt20LabourerStroudMermaidNew South Wales7 years1829
Thomas Pitt16LabourerStroudThereseaNew South Wales7 years1838
William Poulton25LabourerStroudEmperor AlexanderVan Diemen’s Land7 years1833
Eliza Powell20Cloth-workerStroudNarvarinoVan Diemen’s Land12 years1840
James Roberts 20TailorStroud Katherine Stewart ForbesVan Diemen’s Land7 years1832
William Slade 22ServantStroudJohnNew South WalesLife1827
Henry Smart23ButcherStroudLord LyndochVan Diemen’s Land14 years1831
Amelia Smith37ShoekepperStroudProvidenceVan Diemen’s Land14 years1825
Charles Smith17Scamp and Bone pickerStroudGilmoreVan Diemen’s LandLife1838
Edmund Smith8LabourerStroudHenry TannerNew South WalesLife1834
George Smith20No occupationStroudHenry TannerNew South Wales7 years1834
George Smith32WeaverStroudEdenVan Diemen’s Land7 years 1838
Joseph Smith52Dealer in marine storeStroudChapmanVan Diemen’s Land14 years 1826
Nathaniel Smith24WeaverStroudCoromandelVan Diemen’s Landlife1838
Edmund Tyler18SawyerStroudEmilyVan Diemen’s Land10 years1842
Edwin Walkley15Mason's LabourerStroudJames PattisonNew South Wales7 years 1837
John Ward 17Clothing BusinessStroudSusanNew South Wales7 years1835
James Wathen23BlacksmithStroudKatherine Stewart ForbesVan Diemen’s Land7 years1832
Joseph Wathen20HawkerStroudHenry WellesleyVan Diemen’s Land7 years1837
Thomas White26LabourerStroudEarl GreyNew South Wales15 years1826
Thomas Wilkins49No occupationStroudCountess of HarcourtNew South Wales7 years1828
William Williams32WeaverStroudRed roverVan Diemen’s LandLife1830
George Winn25Clothing BusinessStroudBengal merchantNew South Wales7 years 1836
Thomas Winn19BoatmanStroudGilmoreVan Diemen’s Land30 years1838
William Wood20LabourerStroudVittoriaNew South WalesLife1828
Thomas Worden16LabourerStroudLaytonNew South Wales7 years 1829
James Grimes26LabourerThruppShipleyNew South Wales7 years1818
William Birt 40Spinner, Former Soldier 66th RegUleyShipleyNew South Wales7 years1818
James Croome22MasonUleyPersianVan Diemen’s LandLife1830
Thomas Croome20LabourerUleyIsabellaNew South Wales7 years1831
Isaac Fisher 29WeaverUleyJohnNew South Wales14 years1832
Joseph Fisher29Handle-setterUleyMinstrelNew South Wales14 years1825
William Flint35No occupationUleyMariaVan Diemen’s Land7 years1820
Nathaniel Ford20WeaverUleyPersianVan Diemen’s Land14 years1830
Joseph Hatherall26WeaverUleyAndromedaVan Diemen’s LandLife1826
William Hill27ThatcherUleyMariaVan Diemen’s Land7 years1820
William Hurcombe22LabourerUleyEmilyVan Diemen’s Land7 years & 2 weeks1842
Jacob Jefferies31LabourerUleyAugusta JessieVan Diemen’s Land15 years1838
Nathaniel Poole20CooperUleyLord LyndochVan Diemen’s LandLife1831
Daniel Riddiford31ShearmanUleyBaringVan Diemen’s Land7 years1819
Benjamin Robbins34WeaverUleyElizabethVan Diemen’s Land7 years1831
Nathaniel Beard16Cloth-workerWoodchesterSurrey 1Van Diemen’s LandLife1832
Charles Haines25BrazierWoodchesterPrince RegentVan Diemen’s Land7 years1829
Robert Harrison31No occupationWoodchesterRecoveryNew South WalesLife1819
James Peters BakerNo occupationWoodchesterAtlanticNew South Wales7 ears1791
John Shipton25WatermanWoodchesterHerculesNew South WalesLife1832
George Aldridge19SpinnerWotton-under-EdgeIsabellaNew South Wales7 years1831
Charles Brown23LabourerWotton-under-EdgeMaryNew South WalesLife1832
James Candy27ShearmanWotton-under-EdgeManliusVan Diemen’s Land7 years1830
John Candy30SpinnerWotton-under-EdgeManliusVan Diemen’s Land7 years 1830
Joseph Clarke21LabourerWotton-under-EdgeCountess of HarcourtNew South Wales7 years1824
George Collins 18LabourerWotton-under-EdgeLady NugentVan Diemen’s LandLife1836
Charles Cossens 19LabourerWotton-under-EdgeGilmoreVan Diemen’s Land7 years1831
James Cossens19LabourerWotton-under-EdgeStrathfieldsayVan Diemen’s Land7 years1831
Thomas Cossens 23LabourerWotton-under-EdgeEmperor AlexanderVan Diemen’s LandLife1831
Edward Cox23LabourerWotton-under-EdgeIsabellaNew South Wales7 years1831
George Dando19LabourerWotton-under-EdgeChapmanVan Diemen’s Land7 years1833
John Downs17ShoemakerWotton-under-EdgeLloydsVan Diemen’s Land7 years1833
Samuel Fowler19WeaverWotton-under-EdgeNeptuneNew South Wales7 years1820
William Griffin19LabourerWotton-under-EdgeNeptuneNew South Wales7 years1820
Daniel Hall26LabourerWotton-under-EdgeMalabarVan Diemen’s Land7 years1821
Jeremiah Harmer29ThatcherWotton-under-EdgeLord MelvilleVan Diemen’s Land7 years1818
William Hayward26LabourerWotton-under-EdgeLord LyndochVan Diemen’s LandLife1831
Samuel Holder18ClothworkerWotton-under-EdgeGilmoreVan Diemen’s Land7 years1830
William Hunt24BrickmakerWotton-under-EdgeClydeVan Diemen’s Land14 years1830
John King22WeaverWotton-under-EdgeElizabethNew South Wales7 years1820
Joseph Knight 40WeaverWotton-under-EdgeLarkinsVan Diemen’s Land7 years1831
John Lewis19WeaverWotton-under-EdgeGilmoreVan Diemen’s Land7 years1831
Thomas Organ26LabourerWotton-under-EdgeBengal merchantVan Diemen’s Land7 years1828
Robert Pegler23LabourerWotton-under-EdgeLord LyndochVan Diemen’s LandLife1831
Joseph Phillips30AccountantWotton-under-EdgeTortoiseVan Diemen’s Land15 years 1841
Joseph Povey19Clothing BusinessWotton-under-EdgeElizabethVan Diemen’s Land14 years1831
Lewis Rymer20LabourerWotton-under-EdgeJohnNew South Wales7 years1832
Elihu Smith23TailorWotton-under-EdgeSusanNew South Waleslife1835
Henry Summers15Clothing Mill boyWotton-under-EdgeHindostanVan Diemen’s Land10 years1840
Henry Walker25LabourerWotton-under-EdgeLord LyndochNew South Wales7 years 1833
Edwin Webb20WeaverWotton-under-EdgeJames PattisonNew South WalesLife 1836
Michael Witts22LabourerWotton-under-EdgeFlorentiaVan Diemen’s Land14 years 1930
William Woolen20LabourerWotton-under-EdgeCandaharVan Diemen’s Land21 years1842
Henry Workman28StockworkerWotton-under-EdgeJohnNew South WalesLife1827
Charles Young30LabourerWotton-under-EdgeCoromandelVan Diemen’s Land10 years1838
Joseph Young27Labourer, Formely a soldier 32 RegWotton-under-EdgeElizaNew South Wales7 years1819

With thanks to Noah Griffiths for creating this spreadsheet.

Stroudwater and Empire (and Morris Dancing)

Stroudwater and Empire (and Morris Dancing)
(Written after reading The Cloth Industry in the West Country 1640-1880
J. De L. Mann)

Chalford has such a labyrinth of weavers’ walks and footpaths –
And on a mid-winter’s day, with plumes of smoke rising from Chalford Bottom
(‘A remarkable place for the great number of clothing mills and the great quantity of cloth made there and in the neighbourhood’),
Mistletoe in the trees, light folded in envelopes of cloud,
It’s hard to imagine that this picturesque Cotswold village
(This ‘little Commonwealth of Cloathiers and Clothworkers –
not like in the Nation’, said John Aubrey in the 17th century)
Was once hand in glove with the East India Company,
As at Sevill’s Upper Mill,
Now a select residential development,
With the stream, now private and sequestered,
Between houses and a car park.

This landscape was once a fretwork of
‘Scarlet, Crimson, Blue and a variety of other delightful colours’,
Uley, Dursley, too, and Nailsworth and Painswick
(‘The land of clothiers, who in these bourns building fair houses
because of the conveniency of water so useful for their trade’),
A fretwork of profits and prices and exports and wages
And strikes and patterns of trade slumps and booms,
Linking the Thames and Severn Canal and the River Frome –
With the Ganges Valley, Bengal, Delhi, Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, Canton,
And with Robert Clive, Warren Hastings, the Marquess Wellesley,
And with muskets, cannon, Stroud Scarlet, slavery, opium, cotton, coffee and tea:
‘The increase in soldiery in India, either European or under European command, provided a much larger market … India was the only country which remained
a preserve for West of England cloth throughout the 18th century.’
‘Gloucestershire seems to have had
almost the sole custom of the East India Company’,
And ‘Up to 1833 the East India Company was still taking for China
a large proportion of Gloucestershire’s production.’

Contemporary websites are not so different from Aubrey’s 17th century
View of felicitous harmony:
They project a multicultural, almost spiritual, perspective
On Stroud cloth and the East India Company:
‘Granted a fifteen-year Charter in Elizabeth the First’s reign, the Company mostly traded for textiles, spices, and tea, ¾ Red is a colour of great symbolic importance to many cultures. For example, Hindus believed that the spirit of red cloth could transform a person’s soul so that a “red one” might become a sorcerer. Soldiers wore red turbans in battle, women wore red clothes and reddened their hands and hair during marriage and fertility festivals. Indian rulers copied the red coats of the East India Company, clothing their own armies in scarlet broadcloth to make them more impressive.’
Or
‘The British East India Company traded widely in Asia from the late 17th century. The East India Company sustained the Gloucestershire broadcloth industry,
as others declined in the late 18th century in the face
of competitive Yorkshire mills.’
Or
‘The indigenous communities trading with the Hudson’s Bay Company and the East India Company adapted the cloth and integrated it into their own traditions of material culture.’

There is no hint of oppression, imperialism, asymmetrical power, war,
Or the ideology of racism,
But rather more a projection of fair exchange and mutuality,
No hint of the fact that ‘trading and political power were closely interlinked’,
Nor that the East India Company was also involved in the slave trade
In Madagascar, St Helena, Bengkulu and Angola,
Exchanging guns, gunpowder, cutlasses, cloth, and piece goods,
No hint that Bristol merchants bought textiles from the Company
To exchange for slaves in West Africa,
No hint of the fact that the East India Company, in effect,
Governed on behalf of the British government,
For over a century,
Exploiting and contributing to the decline of the Mughal Empire,
No hint of the fact that the Company sold Indian grown opium,
To be smuggled to China, to flout the Imperial ban,
The profits paying for tea for domestic consumption;

Instead a comforting emphasis on:
“Trade in spices, pepper, cloth, cloves, nutmeg,
Cinnamon, silks, tea, cotton, coffee, and so on”,
Instead a typical information plaque in Nailsworth:
‘Gigg is so small and tucked away that it is hard to imagine that it was once the generator of great wealth. In the 1790s John Remmington bought it and other mills. From the profits he added a sumptuous wing to his house up the hill at Barton End. His cloth was bought by the East India Company for sale to China.
An entry in the Company books briefly records the final settlement
after his retirement:
December 1811 Broadcloth J Rimmington £180

But our conclusion acknowledges a different final settlement:
These cottages clambering up the Cotswold hillsides, this Golden Valley harmony of water, wood and stone is derived, in some degree, from war, slavery, racism,
opium and imperialism.

We have written before of Raphael Samuel’s point that Heritage and Tradition can too easily morph into ‘an expressive totality … projecting a unified set of meanings which are impervious to challenge … a fixed narrative which allows neither subtext nor counter-readings’; but, ‘History is an allegorical as well as … a mimetic art … like allegorists, historians are adept at discovering a hidden or half-hidden order. We find occult meanings in apparently simple truths.’

Which leads ineluctably from the impact of the East India Company on our parochial landscape, to Morris dancing.
Just as a landscape can mask an asymmetry of power, imperialism and racism in a celebration of red cloth heritage, so can blackface Morris deceive.

Stroud has its unique anti-slavery arch, of which we are justly proud.
We perhaps feel more ambivalent about the Blackboy Clock in Nelson Street:
‘A clock called the Blackboy Clock, with an explanatory plaque,
That foregrounds horology rather than slavery –
Indeed, there is absolutely no reference whatsoever to the Age of Enlightenment,
And the engendering of an ideology of justificatory racism,
Nor to the symbolism of the black boy being the relentless slave of Time …’
We might also be surprised at our parish register references to ‘ye blacks’
in Stroud-water in the 17th and 18th centuries:

Bisley, 1603, John Davies, ‘ye black’ was buried

Nympsfield, 1719, Daniel, ‘a black stranger’ was buried

In 1773, Francis London, ‘a servant to the Rt. Hon. Lord Ducie supposed to be 17 years of age – a native of Africa’ was baptised;
In 1778, in Rodborough, ‘William Jubiter – black’, was buried;
In Stroud in 1786, Adam Parker, Negro, 32, was buried with a parish funeral;
In Frocester in 1790, William Frocester, ‘supposed to be 11 or 12 years old, born on the island of Barbados, and now a servant of Edward Bigland Esq. residing in Jamaica, was baptised’;
Stroud, 1801, ‘William Ellis, son of Qualquay Assedew, a Negro of Guinea, aged 12 years, was baptised’;
1815, Bisley Testimonial from Richard Raikes, for John Hart, Writing Master, to the post of master at Bisley Blue Coat School:
‘Unfortunately he is a Mulatto, a native of the West Indies’;
Minchinhampton, 1826, Thomas Davis, ‘an infirm travelling Black’ was buried, 67 years old.

We might also feel surprised at the Stroudwater residents who received compensation for the liberation of their slaves in 1834:

Rev. Joseph Ostrehan, Sheepscombe Parsonage: 3 slaves in Barbados and £85 8s 11d compensation; Samuel Baker (Lypiatt Park): 410 slaves in Jamaica and £7,990;   John Altham Graham Clarke (Frocester Estate):  482 slaves in Jamaica and £8, 934 8s 8d;   Mary Elizabeth Clarke (nee Parkinson) (Frocester): 214 slaves in Jamaica and £3,879 4s 0d; Mary Wilhelmina Lindsey (nee Jarvis) (Minchinhampton): 276 slaves in Antigua and £4,194 12s 7d; William Chacon Lindsey – as above – ‘Springfield’, Forward, Minchinhampton; Walter Maynard (Uley): 154 slaves in Nevis and £2, 720 9s 9d.

The Age of Augustan Elegance, the Age of Reason, the Enlightenment,
And the Grand Tour all have a partial provenance
In the profits of slavery and racism,
They are writ in water in our landscape as well as writ in stone,
But self-evident truths, ideologies and traditions change
With the passage of time and with changes in values:
Sometimes on the part of the elite, and sometimes
On the part of the ‘swinish multitude’.
And as some Morris dancers have said – just like Eric Hobsbawm –
That traditions can be invented and re-invented:
Like ‘blackface’.
It’s true that blacking up has some history of subversion:
Poachers tearing down enclosure fences,
Or citizens at toll house turnpikes;
And I know that some folk see the Morris blacking up
As having pagan connotations;
It isn’t about racial oppression, they say.

But it does have a racial connotation for many of us,
It makes us feel uncomfortable to be in its Morris presence,
It’s not ‘political correctness gone mad’,
It’s a feeling of embarrassment and unease –
Coupled with the fact that, as with the presentation
Of the East India Company,
It can delude, deceive and distort:
The Truth that dare not speak its name…

A morris dancer goes into a bar and the bar keeper says, “Why the black face?”

I have been a fan of Border Morris for many years. I am old enough to have seen it in the early years of its revival, the 1970s.  This exuberant and dynamic form of dance had a major impact on me and I was soon smitten. I fully accepted the “orthodox” explanation that the use of full blackface make-up had no racist connotations and that it was traditionally used merely as a disguise to protect the dancers’ identity so that they would not get into trouble for begging. Indeed, I have repeated this explanation to others over the years, most notably in my many (and mostly unsuccessful) attempts to persuade non-folky friends that Morris Dancing was “cool” and they really should watch it.  This was the answer I would have given to the barman in the title of this piece – until recently.

 I feel that I can no longer give the “disguise” explanation.

There is some unavoidable evidence that the use of blackface in Border Morris might be linked to many sides adopting the trappings of 19th century minstrel shows.  It seems that the use of blackface may actually have been intended to be a caricature of a black face.

In addition to this there does not seem to be evidence of a blackface tradition in Border Morris that predates the pre-minstrel era.  As Stuart points out, blacking the face has been used for disguise, criminality and subversion at certain points in the past but it is questionable that this was the case in Border Morris.

In some folk circles there has been considerable resistance to accepting that blackface could well have racist roots. I can understand this.  At first I was reluctant to consider it.  I dearly wanted their to be a clear subversive tradition of blackface as disguise in Border Morris as a authentic link to the past.  However, it is just not supported by the evidence.

There has been a great proliferation in Border Morris in the last 10 years or so.  Many sides have adopted face painting styles to make it clear that there can be no racist connotations.  Colours other than black or non-full face patterns are used.  However many sides persist in using full blackface, presumably on the grounds that it is “traditional”.  The problem with this is that very little about the current manifestation of Border Morris could be said to be traditional. Certainly not the very elaborate (and beautiful) costumes and almost certainly not men and women dancing together!  Why do some sides feel it is ok to adapt tradition for so many aspects of their art, but stubbornly stick to using full blackface in a
way that might be linked to a racist caricature of black slaves?

The next time a sceptical friend or a hypothetical bar keeper asks the question about blackface what do I say?  The best I can manage is a it MIGHT be a tradition of disguise but it MIGHT ALSO be the perpetuation of a racist caricature of black slaves….

To all sides still using full blackface – please change.  Please.

Mark Hewlett.

Black and British (and Stroud)

Black and British a Forgotten History Cover

Black and British A Forgotten History David Olusoga

Bunce Island in Sierra Leone was once an early British slaving headquarters: ‘In exchange for slaves and other valuable commodities the British offered glass beads, bundles of cloth, gunpowder, European metal goods, tobacco pipes, bottles of liquor and European weapons. Until a few years ago the ground was … littered with tiny glass beads and fragments of pottery … Most of these grim souvenirs have been hoovered up by tourists … but many more relics of the trade lie beneath the soil, along with iron nails used to attach shackles and chains to African arms …’

Stroud’s Triangular Trade

‘Bundles of cloth’:
Stroud Scarlet
Shuttles and looms:

Shuttles and looms:
Stroud Scarlet
Shackles and chains:

Shackles and chains:
Stroud Scarlet
Bundles of cloth:

Bundles of cloth,
Shuttles and looms,
Shackles and chains:

Stroud’s Triangular Trade

Trade Cloth

Trade Cloth: strouds, scissors and shrouds

We travelled track 32 from Grand Central,
The Hudson Line up to Beacon,
Where fires were once lit on the Fishkill Mountains,
To warn of British army redcoat movement;
The hills and woodland were all red fall tint,
On both sides of the catspaw, white horse Hudson,
Where the Wappinger tribe once roamed free,
Until a Dutch royal patent transferred their land
To fur traders, merchants and millers;
And as our train moved upstream,
Through clouds of leaves whipped down by the wind,
I dream-glimpsed two traders in their beaver hats,
Paddling up the Hudson,
Scarlet cloth and scissors packed in their canoe.

I waved a greeting from home,
From Claire Honeyfield in the Made in Stroud shop:
‘I visited a private collection of First Nation clothing and effects in the redwoods of Northern California. Every tribe had “trade cloth” included somewhere in their traditional dress … All the way from little Stroud.’

They waved back in return,
As they headed into the wilderness,
From my dream-time manuscript
I had left in lower east side Manhattan:

‘I sailed from Bristol with a witch’s hag-cough,
Spitting phlegm on the ropes and rigging
All through the Atlantic’s winter storms;
The River Hudson brought no relief,
Just fog and headaches, as we made our way upstream.

Our trade went well with all the tribes,
Stroud Scarlet cloth, their prize;
With knives, rum and scissors and guns;
Beaver pelts, land and bearskins, ours.

Stroud Scarlet gave scant shelter
From our colds, catarrh and shivering agues;
Their death-rattle was our invitation
To praise God’s Will – with fences, palisades,
And the cultivation of funeral virgin wastes,
As we advanced inland with Protestant virtue.

Our mirrors too were well received,
Until the squaws regarded their small poxed reflections,
And rushed into the forests to die by their own hands.

‘Tis God’s Will.’

I turned back from my reflection in the carriage window,
And picked up my copy of White Savage
(Recommended to me by Chris Moore,
When I bumped into him at Wallbridge) –
Fintan O’Toole’s book is about
‘William Johnson and the Invention of America’:

‘The biggest sellers were the coarse woollen blankets called strouds, which the Iroquois found to be lighter than fur or skin, easier to dry and therefore more suitable for a mobile life in a terrain of forest and river. They also came in bright colours which natural berry and root dyes could not match … The high quality and relatively low price … were so much appreciated by the Iroquois and other Indian nations that they represented perhaps the single biggest advantage the English enjoyed over the French colony in Canada in the competition for fur and allies.
When William Johnson began to trade in earnest from 1740 onwards, he provided woollens in shades of blue, red and black … suggesting that the Indians had very definite preferences … Crimson … red … ribbons in deep red, deep blue … deep yellow; scarlet, blue and green stockings for women; and coats of blue cloth with red cuffs.’

Stroud Scarlet, Uley Blue, Berkeley Yellow …
Stretched out on tenterhooks in the five valleys …

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Capel’s Mill

It’s a great walk down to Capel’s Mill from my house,
Past old ridge and furrow and tenterhook hedgerows,
Teazles here and there to raise your nap,
Imagining the patchwork quilt of fields of two centuries ago:
Rack Hill, Thresher, Bacon Slad,
Spout Leaze, Lower Orchard, Upper Bacon Slad,
Calves Close, Sheep Furlong, Little Chapel Hill,
Freeze Land, The Park, The Island, Cobswell,
Side Long Piece, Fir Tree Ground, Wheatlands,
Cobbs Acre, Great Fromate, Spillman,
Well Croft, Birds Lagget, Home Ground, Broad Close,
The Mead, Old Well Close, Kitchen Close,
Barn Close,Dye House Mead,
Sweetmead, New Leaze –
The only names we now know and use are ‘Rodborough Fields’.

You pass an old oak sentinel to reach the Frome,
Railway viaduct and canal-bridge close at hand,
And there is the dell that once was Capel’s Mill:
Trees clambering down the steep riverbank to shroud the waters,
The remains of the mill sluice quickening the river’s pulse,
Rusting iron work still visible,
The steady drip down from the railway arches,
Sometimes, wild swimming in season,
Sometimes, picnics on high days and holidays,
Sometimes, groups of youth drinking and smoking,
Sometimes the turquoise flash of a kingfisher,
The splash of an otter or the curve of a dipper;
It’s hard to imagine that spinning jennies once clanked away,
With spinners clocking on and clocking off,
Clerks frowning at the figures in the ledgers,
As the world kept revolving and turning,
But James Hargreave’s 1763 Spinning Jenny
Could only stand still at Capel’s Mill,
And watch the world go by,
Spinning.

The Cloth Industry in the West of England from 1640 to 1880 J. de L. Mann
Page 188: ‘Advertisements and catalogues for machinery for sale in Gloucestershire up to 1842 show only jennies in several cases, though it is perhaps unfair to judge an industry by those members of it who got into difficulties.’
Note 3 Gloucester Journal 22 May 1841Capel’s Mill

We then ambled through Victoria’s reign,
To stand on the bank above Capel Mill,
We saw an Edwardian lady gaze at the waters,
Hands clutching the rustic fencing
That ran all along the bridge,
In a picture postcard pose and scene,
More seaside than Stroud,
Like the puff from 1902,
Selling land for building in Coronation Road,
“Near the GWR and Midland Railways”,
And the well known “health resort” of Rodborough Common.

Broadway Elegy

When you’re a slightly star struck English tourist,
Visiting NYC for the very first time
(‘It’s that Broadway Melody!’),
It’s easy to forget the Paris Situationists:
‘Underneath the paving stones, the beach!’
You might stare at the skyscrapers or the stars,
But sometimes you have to be in the gutter to know the truth.

So make a pilgrimage along Broadway
(‘It’s that Broadway Melody!’)
To number 290, NY10007,
To the African Burial Ground National Monument,
Where in a reverse echo of past city expansion
Of new plots, lots and infill on the site in 1795,
Federal construction work revealed the remains
Of over four hundred people,
Their coffins and their artefacts;
A fragment of a seven-acre burial ground,
A remnant and a revenant
Of the fifteen to twenty thousand
Slaves and free black citizens,
Interred there in the 18th century,
A shrunken fraction
Of the decorated coffins,
The beads, shells, coins and cuff links,
Remembering
And invoking
Life
Liberty
Happiness
Family
And distant African shores.

Building work ceased.
Memorialisation was planned.

The monument comprises seven grave like grass mounds;
A smooth polished Ancestral Chamber
(Standing in water, a mirror to the Atlantic),
Skyscraper modernity reflected in its glassy surface,
The past symbolised by its cardinal positioning,
Eastwards to the Door of No Return
In Dakar, Senegal,
A spiritual odyssey across the Black Atlantic;

There is also a Circle of the Diaspora,
With motifs and sankofa,
Beneath the level of the paving stones,
Our footsteps moving across a maritime imagination,
The anonymity of slavery detailed in a catalogue
Of dates and descriptions, such as:
‘Burial 99 Child between six and ten years’,
Reminding us that when we walk down Broadway,
Along the ticker tape sidewalks near Wall Street,
Underneath the pavement is a cry of exile and slavery,
Perhaps another twenty thousand imprisoned souls,
Mourning for their homelands in a rainbow lexicon,
In a landscape once mapped as The Negro Burial Ground,
Alongside Palisades, Fresh Water, and The Road to Boston:
A resonant counterpoint of history
And a present day corrective
To the modish hipster graffiti on Williamsburg Bridge:
‘Anonymity is king’,
And ‘We will be ephemeral’.

Instead:
‘For all those who were lost,
For all those who were stolen,
For all those who were left behind,
For all those who were not forgotten’.

When you’re slightly star struck English tourists
From Stroud and London and Bristol,
Walking through the lights on Broadway,
Put your ear to the paving stones:
Some of those cries you hear from the past –
The Broadway Elegy –
Are only there because of

Stroud Scarlet,
The Triangular trade,
The Bristol slavery ships,
And the capital of London:

Forget ‘Singing in the Rain’
And ‘It’s that Broadway Melody!’
Here, beneath your feet,
Is a Broadway Elegy:
Partly home spun.

Guiding Principles of Waterscape

WATERSCAPE: Inform, Educate and Entertain

Waterscape is the result of jottings, notes, recreations and re-imaginings after reading a number of texts, as well as navigating and walking canals and rivers, and cycling towpaths.

There is no fetishisation of documentary evidence and primary sources: in fact, a guiding principle of WATERSCAPE is to go beyond any available historical evidence, so as to recreate the lives of the anonymous, unrecorded lower orders. Waterscape is rather more about boatpeople and navvies, slaves, convicts and itinerants, rather than technology, weights, measures, the statistical and the numbered. We are, in the words of E.P. Thompson in The Making of the English Working Class, rescuing the ignored ‘from the enormous condescension of posterity’.

I have concentrated on local canals and, in the spirit of oral culture and balladry, I have changed the words of a few old songs to fit with the rivers and inland navigations of Gloucestershire.

WATERSCAPE: Inform, Educate and Entertain

Waterscape is the result of jottings, notes, recreations and re-imaginings after reading a number of texts, as well as navigating and walking canals and rivers, and cycling towpaths.

There is no fetishisation of documentary evidence and primary sources: in fact, a guiding principle of WATERSCAPE is to go beyond any available historical evidence, so as to recreate the lives of the anonymous, unrecorded lower orders. Waterscape is rather more about boatpeople and navvies, slaves, convicts and itinerants, rather than technology, weights, measures, the statistical and the numbered. We are, in the words of E.P. Thompson in The Making of the English Working Class, rescuing the ignored ‘from the enormous condescension of posterity’.

I have concentrated on local canals and, in the spirit of oral culture and balladry, I have changed the words of a few old songs to fit with the rivers and inland navigations of Gloucestershire.

Waterscape is a work of Fusion: the blending of Fact and Fiction: the Genre of Faction. The genres of psychogeography and mythogeography have also led the watery way: Waterscape is an exercise in Navigeography.

“Non-fiction uses facts to help us see the lies. Fiction uses metaphor to help us see the truth.”

Thoughts derived from a reading of
Creating Memorials Building Identities The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic
(Alan Price Liverpool University Press 2012)

Doors of No Return,
Historic, documented, liminal places,
Not gone with the wind, but both visible and invisible,
Spaces and places in the black Atlantic archipelago
With messages and mementoes from the slaving past,
Open doors to the truth –
But we too have landscapes – and WATERSCAPES
Which require re-reading,
Reinterpretations that acknowledge a history
That might be interwoven with the triangular trade,
But whose messages are obscured or buried –
The home of Stroud Scarlet, for example;
Or the lives of the forgotten and ignored
On our canals and rivers and oceans.

So how do we create a counter-narrative?
That is,
“A performative counter-narrative, what we might call a ‘guerrilla memory’”,
Or “Lieux de memoire, sites of history, torn away from the moment of history”
(Pierre Nora),
Memorialisation that moves beyond ‘obsessional empiricism’ and
‘The fetishisation of surviving historical documents and sources’,
To a counter-heritage, a counter-memorialisation…
Buildings and landscapes and Waterscapes
With hidden connections,
For further reinterpretations,
And re-imaginings,
As we move art and monument
From object to process,
And from ‘noun to verb’,
As we create new museums of the past, present and future.

The Upperlock Cafe

Pleased to be part of the revival of the canal, the Upperlock Cafe is open seven days a week. Located at Wallbridge on the Stroud Water Navigation, adjacent to the visitor centre of the Cotswold Canals Trust. The cafe provides a welcome and convenient place to stop on the towpath walk between Eastington and Chalford. From the café, Stroud Town Centre is easily accessible.

Run by Janette and her team, the Upperlock Café offers warm hospitality. The atmosphere is vibrant and informal, with a touch of the vintage about it. At any one time you might find friends catching up, customers reading over a cup of coffee, lycra clad cycliing groups taking a break, children playing quietly at the far end in the kitchen corner while their grandparents recuperate, poets musing, a knitting group quietly clicking, business people meeting with their laptops open (WiFi is free), well-behaved dogs keeping an eye on their owners, the council’s refuse collectors calling in for a takeway coffee. During the course of the week, the whole world is there. In summer customers spread out onto canal side picnic tables.

All tastes are catered for: omnivores, vegetarians, vegans and those who require gluten-free. The coffee is Italian, by Carrerro, and supplied by the Cornico Coffee Company in Padstow, who in turn provide expert barista training for the staff. Tea and a range of speciality brews are also available, as well as home-made cakes and a range of hot food. Locally sourced bottle beer can be served and a glass of wine can be had, along with a range of soft drinks.

The Upperlock Café offers a canal side ambience without the expense of maintaining and mooring a narrowboat.

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Transportation from the Stroud Area 1788-1842

It may not have meant a black cap,
At those Quarter Sessions,
Epiphany, Easter, Trinity and Michael-mas,
But it meant a lifetime’s separation –
And Gloucestershire was high on the list
Of counties for transportation,
Whilst the Stroud-water area itself,
‘Sent one-quarter of … Gloucestershire convicts,
Although containing little more
Than one-eighth of the county population’;

I leave it to you, gentle reader,
To breathe life, emotion and meaning into
The names of the convicts,
Their occupations,
Their ages,
Their villages and towns,
The names of the ships,
The word transportation,
Their sentences …

Ponder on their offences …
What might they have been?
Offences against poverty,
Against property,
Against privation;
Ponder on the heartbreak,
The prison hulks,
The chains, the irons, the nine-month voyage …
The abuse of the women –
And who knows?
Perhaps family conversations and research might result,
In consequence,
About these representatives of Burke’s ‘swinish multitude’,
And the Gloucester Journal’s ‘pernicious members of society’;

Here is the document for Avening:

John Giffin, Labourer, aged 28, transported 1818 on the Tottenham to New South Wales; life;

Here is the document for Bisley:

George Ansloe, Labourer, aged 18, transported 1828, on the Manlius to Van Diemen’s Land; 7yr;
William Bacchus, Labourer, aged 15, transported 1828, on the Manlius to Van Diemen’s Land, 7yr;
Peter Brown, aged 21, Labourer, transported 1834, on the Bengal Merchant to New South Wales, 7yr;
John Davis, Labourer, aged 20, transported 1841, on the Layton to Van Dieman’s Land; 15yr;
Richard Dew, Weaver, aged 43, transported 1835, on the Aurora to Van Dieman’s Land; Life;
Richard Eddles (Eddells), Iddles), aged 30, Carrier, transported 1821, on the Shipley to New South Wales, 14yr;
William Haines, Marine, aged 25, transported 1833, on the Lord Lyndoch to New South Wales, life;
William Hooper, Labourer, aged 17, transported 1828, on the Manlius to Van ;Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Isaac King, Sawyer, aged 18, transported 1840, on the Eden to New South Wales, 15yr;
William King, Sawyer, aged 40, transported 1840, on the Eden to New South Wales, life;
Samuel Munsden, aged 36, transported 1819, on the Recovery to New South Wales; life;
William Nicholls, Carpenter, aged 21, transported 1828, on the Georgiana to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
John Parsons (Barsons), Bargeman, aged 24, transported 1837, on the Coromandel to Van Dieman’s Land; 14yr;
Levi Poulson, Stonemason, aged 25, transported 1836, on the Norfolk to New South Wales; life;
William Scrivens, Labourer, aged 48, transported 1820, on the Agamemnon to New South Wales; 7yr;
James Smith als James Price, Labourer, aged 26, transported 1818, on the Tottenham to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
George Taylor, Cloth-worker, aged 29, transported 1837, on the Waterloo to New South Wales; life;
Jesse Tyler, Slater and Plasterer, aged 25, transported 1832, on the Parmelia to New South Wales; life;
John Wall, Labourer, aged 21, transported 1838, on the Coromandel to Van Diemen’s Land; 30yr;
John Winslaw (Winslow), Labourer, Deserted from 32nd. Reg. of Foot, aged 26, transported 1821, on the Lady Ridley, to Van Diemen’s Land; 7yr;

Here is the document for Brimscombe:

George Bidmead, Cloth-worker, aged 22, transported 1830, on the Nithsdale to New South Wales, 14yr;
Samuel Tocknell, Labourer, aged 22, transported 1835, on the Susan to New South Wales, 7yr;

Here is the document for Brimpsfield:

Peter Williams, aged 23, Labourer, transported 1835, on the Asia to Van Dieman’s Land; life;

Here is the document for Cainscross:

Thomas Cook (Cooke), aged 22, Labourer, transported 1817, on the Batavia to New South Wales, 7yr;
William Nicholls, Labourer, aged 22, transported 1835, on the Susan to New South Wales, 7yr;

Here is the document for Cam:

Cornelius Bendall, Labourer, aged 23, transported 1828, on the Albion to New South Wales, 7yr;
Daniel Ludlow als Daniel Duddle, Labourer, aged 20, transported 1829, on the Prince Regent to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
George Ludlow als George Duddle, Labourer, aged 25, transported 1829, on the Bussorah Merchant to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
John Martin, Labourer, aged 20, transported 1834, on the Henry Tanner to New South Wales; life;
Samuel Rudge, Weaver, aged 31, transported 1830, on the Manlius to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Thomas Rudge, Weaver, aged 24, transported 1830, on the Manlius to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
John Sandford, aged 41, Labourer, transported 1842 on the Emily to Van Dieman’s Land; 10yr;
Thomas Sinigar, Weaver, aged 18, transported 1829, on the America to New South Wales; 7yr;
James White (died on voyage 18 Mar 1830), Butcher, aged 19, transported 1829, on the Dunvegan Castle to New South Wales, 7yr;
Thomas Wilkins, Weaver, aged 26, transported 1830, on the Nithdale to New South Wales, 7yr;

Here is the document for Chalford:

Joseph Berriman (Berryman), Labourer, aged 20, transported 1820, on the Speke to New South Wales, Life;
Thomas Berriman , Shoemaker, aged 22, transported 1833, on the Lloyds to New South Wales, Life;
William Berriman (Berryman), Cloth-worker, aged 55, transported 1820, on the Speke to New South Wales, Life;
Thomas Davis, Waterman, aged 20, transported 1829, on the Claudine to New South Wales, 14yr;
Benjamin King, aged 26, transported 1832, on the John to New South Wales; life;
Samuel Ridler, Cloth-worker, aged 21, transported 1830, on the Manlius to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
John Smith, Blacksmith, aged 19, transported 1830, on the Red Rover to Van Dieman’s Land; life;

Here is the document for Coaley:

Thomas Blunson, Labourer, aged 32, transported 1825, on the Woodman to Van Diemen’s Land; life;
Enoch Elliotts, aged 20, Flock-dresser, transported 1835, on the Layton to Van Diemen’s Land, 7yr;
Eli Parsloe, aged 15, transported 1838, on the Coromandel to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Isaac Powell, Labourer, aged 20, transported 1830, on the York to New South Wales; 7yr;

Here is the document for Dursley:

William Aldridge, Labourer, aged 23, transported 1833, on the Lloyds to New South Wales, 14yr;
John Bendall, Labourer, aged 51, transported 1833, on the Heroine to New South Wales, 7yr;
John Brothers, aged 23, Mill-man, transported 1833, on the Lord Lyndoch to New South Wales, 14yr;
William Champion, Hatter, aged 22, transported 1823, on the Asia to Van Dieman’s Land; 14yr;
James Cross, aged 14, Labourer, transported 1837, on the Royal Sovereign to Van Diemen’s Land, 7yr;
Edward Davis als Edwin Davis, Labourer, aged 19, transported 1824, on the Princess Charlotte to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
George Davis, Twine-spinner, aged 17, transported 1824, on the Princess Charlotte to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
John Davis, Shoemaker, aged 20, transported 1824, on the Princess Charlotte to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
John Davis, aged 35, transported 1839, on the Parkfield to New South Wales, 14yr;
Joseph Moody Fletcher, aged 22, Servant, transported 1829, on the Prince Regent to Van Diemen’s Land, Life;
Henry Ford (drowned when ship wrecked in mouth of Derwent River, Hobart, 12 Apr 1835), aged 17, Labourer, transported 1834, on the George the Third to Van Diemen’s Land, 7yr;
Sarah Ford, aged 21, Servant, transported 1836, on the Platina to Van Diemen’s Land, 7yr;
George Grace, Gardener, aged 23, transported 1833 on the Heroine to New South Wales; 7yr;
Edward Groves, Labourer, aged 38, transported 1831, on the Elizabeth to Van Dieman’s Land; 14yr;
James Grove the elder, Shearman, aged 42, transported 1831, on the Larkins to Van Dieman’s Land; 14yr;
Daniel Harrill (Harrold) als Daniel Weight, Labourer, aged 26, transported 1833 on the Lord Lyndoch to New South Wales; 7yr;
Joseph Harrold (Harrolds) aged 18, Labourer, transported 1837, on the Neptune to Van Diemen’s Land, 14yr;
John Heath, aged 19, Labourer, transported 1828 on the William Miles to Van Dieman’s Land life;
Joseph Herring, aged 31, Navigator Formerly in Wilts. Militia, transported 1820 on the Maria to Van Dieman’s Land 7yr;
Elijah Hill, aged 23, Labourer, transported 1829 on the Atlas to Van Dieman’s Land 7yr;
George Hill, aged 22, Labourer, transported 1829 on the Prince Regent to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
Thomas Hitchins, Hill, aged 26, Shoemaker, transported 1838 on the Coromandel to Van Dieman’s Land 7yr;
David Mabbett, Weaver, aged 31, transported 1833, on the Emperor Alexander to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
David Morgan, Millman and cloth-rower, aged 27, transported 1831, on the Garland Grove to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Eliza Newthe, Burler, aged 25, transported 1829, on the Lucy Davidson to New South Wales; 14yr;
William Nicholls, Spinner Private in S. Glos. Militia, aged 27, transported 1823, on the Asia to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
George Smith, Clothing business, aged 18, transported 1831, on the Larkins to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Henry Smith, Clothier, aged 23, transported 1833, on the Asia to New South Wales; 14yr (CTR) or life (Q/Gc);
William Tallboys (Talboys), Labourer, aged 24, transported 1833, on the Atlas to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Thomas Watts als Thomas Harris, Labourer, aged 16, transported 1828, on the Georgiana to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
William White, Labourer, aged 15, transported 1829, on the Mermaid to New South Wales, life;
Henry Williams, Labourer, aged 27, transported 1833, on the Heroine to New South Wales, 14yr;
Joseph Wyman, Spinner, aged 38, transported 1836, on the Blenheim to Van Dieman’s Land; 14yr

Here is the document for Eastington:

Charles Bailey, Labourer, aged 19, transported 1838, on the Coromandel to Van Diemen’s Land, Life;
Thomas Bendall, Waterman, aged 34, transported 1840, on the Duncan to Van Dieman’s Land, 7yr;
Susan Partridge w. of Thomas, Labourer, aged 32, transported 1827, on the Harmony to Van Dieman’s Land, 14yr;
George Price, Labourer, aged 17, transported 1826, on the Andromeda to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
John Merrett, aged 33,Cloth-worker, transported 1838, on the Coromandel to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
Thomas Morgan, Labourer, aged 23, transported 1830, on the Nithsdale to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;

Here is the document for Horsley:

Aaron Ashmead, Fishmonger, aged 26, transported 1838, on the Gilmore to Van Diemen’s Land; 15yr;
John Beard, Billy-spinner, aged 22, transported 1831, on the Larkins to Van Diemen’s Land; 7yr;
David Bishop, Labourer, aged 19, transported 1836, on the Eden to Van Diemen’s Land; 7yr (CTR) or life;
Sampson Brinkworth, Labourer, aged 28, transported 1822, on the Prince of Orange to Van Diemen’s Land; life;
Charlotte Clifford, Labourer, aged 18, transported 1834, on the Numa to New South Wales, 14 yr;
William Dangerfield, aged 42, Labourer, transported 1831, on the Lord Lyndoch to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
John Gardner, Weaver, aged 44, transported 1820, on the Mangles to New South Wales, 14yr;
Robert Humphries (Humphris), Labourer, aged 19, transported 1830, on the Manlius to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
William Humphries, Carpenter, aged 25, transported 1829, on the Dunvegan Castle to New South Wales; 7yr;
Joseph Hyde, Weaver, aged 59, transported 1840, on the Lord Raffles to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Edwin Jenkins; Labourer, aged 20, transported 1830, on the Burrell to New South Wales, 7yr;
James Lovett, aged 22, Plasterer, transported 1831, on the Lord Lyndoch to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
James Osborne, Labourer, aged 30, transported 1833, on the Emperor Alexander to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
George Pegler, Weaver, aged 22, transported 1830, on the Manlius to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Daniel Rickards (Ricketts), Cloth-worker, aged 19, transported 1837, on the Moffatt to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Esau Risby, Labourer, aged 23, transported 1835, on the Marquis of Huntley to New South Wales, Life;
Robert Saunders als Robert Croft, Labourer, aged 40, transported 1838, on the Lord Lyndoch to New South Wales, 15yr;
John Sutton, Labourer, aged 23, transported 1829, on the Prince Regent to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
Thomas Taynton, Labourer, aged 23, transported 1822, on the Persian to Van Diemen’s Land; 7yr;
Samuel Walkley the younger, Labourer, aged 18, transported 1834, on the Susan to New South Wales; 7yr;
Edward Window, aged 22, transported 1839, on the Mangles to New South Wales and N.I. (53 men landed in NSW; 236 in N.I.); 7yr;
Thomas Window, Labourer, Served 16 and a half years in 43rd Reg. of Foot. 1/- per day pension.aged 52, transported 1835, on the Norfolk to Van Diemen’s Land; 7yr;

Here is the document for King’s Stanley:

Peter Aldridge, Shearer, aged 25, transported 1826, on the Andromeda to Van Diemen’s Land, 7yr;
Richard Baker, Labourer, Volunteered from S. Glos. Militia into Waggon Train, aged 23, transported 1820, on the Elizabeth 1 to New South Wales, 7yr;
George Beard, Cloth-worker, aged 23, transported 1834 on the John Barry, 7yr;
John Bloodworth, Labourer, transported 1836, on the John to New South Wales, 7yr;
James Coleman, Shearman, aged 23, transported 1830 on the Red Rover to Van Diemen’s Land; 7yr;
Samuel Harrison, Mason, aged 23, transported 1818, on the Shipley to New South Wales, 14yr;
John Howard, Weaver, aged 17, transported 1828, on the Manlius to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
William Jenkins als William Bennett, Labourer Served 15 yrs in Artillery and Marines, aged 38, transported 1821, on the Malabar to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Jesse King (died 18 Oct 1841 before embarkation), Weaver, aged 22, due to be transported 1841, on the Somersetshire to Van Dieman’s Land; 21yr;
Thomas Long, transported 1834 on the Henry Tanner; life;
Nathaniel Lusty, Weaver, aged 34, transported 1820, on the Maria to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Richard Pegler, Weaver, Also in S. Glos. Militia, aged 24, transported 1820, on the Elizabeth to New South Wales; 7yr;
Thomas Smith, Weaver, aged 48, transported 1820, on the Maria to Van Dieman’s Land; 14yr;

Here is the document for Leonard Stanley:

John Clark, Labourer, aged 17, transported 1830, on the York to New South Wales; 7yr;
Susannah Clarke, Dressmaker, aged 20, transported 1826, on the Grenada to New South Wales; 7yr;
Charles Pegler, Butcher, aged 20, transported 1830, on the Red Rover to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
Daniel Powell, Shearman, aged 22, transported 1827, on the Asia to Van Die,man’s Land ; 14yr;
Charles Redman, Weaver, aged 27, transported 1827, on the John to New South Wales; life;
William Redman, Weaver, aged 47, transported 1834, on the Lady Nugent to New South Wales; life;
William Redman, Labourer, aged 20, transported 1836, on the Eden to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Charles Watson, , aged 21, Turner and filer, transported 1827, on the Asia to Van Dieman’s Land; 14yr (CTR) or 7yr (Q/Gc);

Here is the document for Minchinhampton:

John Adams, Labourer, aged 22, transported 1840, on the Duncan to Van Diemen’s Land; 22yr;
Samuel Antill, Weaver, aged 35, transported 1819, on the Maria to Van Diemen’s Land, 7yr;
James Alder, Mason, aged 37, transported 1831, on the John 1 to New South Wales, Life;
Thomas Baker, Weaver, aged 20, transported 1830, on the David Lyon to Van Diemen’s Land, 7yr;
Joseph Blackwell, Labourer, aged 21, transported 1832, on the Katherine Stewart Forbes to Van Diemen’s Land, 7yr;
Mary Ann Browning, Clothing business, aged 17, transported 1831, on the America to Van Diemen’s Land, 7yr;
Nicholas Browning, Clothing business, aged 19, transported 1821, on the Surrey to Van Diemen’s Land, 7yr;
Maria Bryant (Briant), Servant, aged 18, transported 1832, on the Frances Charlotte to Van Diemen’s Land, 7yr;
James Bucknall, Labourer, aged 20, transported 1832, on the Katherine Stewart Forbes to Van Diemen’s Land; life;
Frederick Clark, aged 20, transported 1838, on the Gilmore to Van Diemen’s Land; life;
James Davis, Labourer, aged 23, transported 1827, on the John to New South Wales, 7yr;
George Drew, Aged 18, Weaver, transported 1831, on the Strathfieldsay to Van Dieman’s Land 7yr;
James Evans als John Evans, aged 50, transported 1791, on the Atlantic (app) to New South Wales, 7yr;
Job Evans, Painter, aged 20, transported 1835, on the Marquis of Huntley to New South Wales, Life;
Robert Evans, Carpenter, aged 40, transported 1829, on the Mermaid to New South Wales, Life;
Elias Grange, Labourer, aged 22, transported 1819, on the Recovery to New South Wales, 7yr;
Thomas Grange, Labourer, aged 27, transported 1827 on the Asia to Van Dieman’s Land 7yr;
Thomas Grist als Thomas Moody, Labourer, aged 26, transported 1830, on the Southworth to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
James Kirby, Cloth-worker Deserter from 89th Reg. of Foot., aged 20, transported 1836, on the Eden to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr (CTR) or life;
Samuel Kirby, Cloth-worker, aged 18, transported 1836, on the Norfolk to New South Wales; 14yr;
John Lock, Labourer, aged 17, transported 1829, on the Claudine to New South Wales; 14yr;
John Long the younger, Weaver, aged 20, transported 1832, on the Katherine Stewart Forbes to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Thomas Pitt, Waterman, aged 23, transported 1823, on the Competitor to Van Dieman’s Land; 14yr;
Richard Reed, Labourer, aged 18, transported 1830, on the Red Rover to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
Edwin Smith, Labourer, aged 26, transported 1832, on the Surrey to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Joseph Smith, Labourer, aged 20, transported 1840, on the Asia to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
William Stephens, Labourer, aged 21, transported 1829, on the Bussorah Merchant to New South Wales; 14yr;
William Walker, Traveller with hardware, aged 41, transported 1830, on the Red Rover to Van Dieman’s Land; 14yr;

Here is the document for Nailsworth:

Peter Aldridge, Shearer, aged 25, transported 1826, on the Andromeda to Van Diemen’s Land, 7yr;
James Eddals (Iddels), aged 26, transported 1837, on the Moffatt to Van Diemen’s Land, 14yr;
William Haskins, aged 19, Cloth-factoryman, transported 1837 on the Neptune to Van Dieman’s Land life;
George Lane, Sawyer, aged 20, transported 1836, on the John to New South Wales, Life;
John Newman als John Holdman, Labourer, aged 24, transported 1822, on the Princess Royal to New South Wales; 7yr;
Thomas Ridler, Weaver, aged 32, transported 1817, on the Larkins to New South Wales; Life;
James Skirton, Labourer, aged 22, transported 1833, on the Asia to New South Wales; 7yr;
Charles Smart, Cloth-worker, aged 19, transported 1837, on the Henry Wellesley to New South Wales; life;

Here is the document for North Nibley:

Elias Black, Labourer, aged 23, transported 1842, on the Susan to Van Diemen’s Land, 7yr;
Edward Clarke als James Holloway, Labourer, aged 17, transported 1829, on the Surrey to Van Diemen’s Land; life;
James Clark (Clarke), Blacksmith, aged 18, transported 1827, on the John 1 to New South Wales, Life;
Thomas Clark (Clarke), Shoemaker, aged 20, transported 1830, on the Sir Charles Forbes to Van Diemen’s Land; 14yr;
William Cole, Labourer, aged 20, transported 1830 on the Nithsdale to New South Wales; life;
Thomas Cornock, Weaver, aged 22, transported 1825, on the Royal Charlotte to New South Wales, Life;
George Gabb, aged 25, transported 1832, on the Surrey to Van Diemen’s Land; 7yr;
William Gazzard the younger (Gazard), Labourer, aged 28, transported 1838 on the Lord Lyndoch, New South Wales; 14yr;
Josiah Hancock, Weaver, aged 22, transported 1827, on the John to New South Wales, Life;
Sarah Harrison, Servant, aged 18, transported 1831, on the America to Van Diemen’s Land; 7yr;
Joseph Hobbs, Hill, aged 26, Labourer, transported 1829 on the Layton to New South Wales; 7yr;
Isaac Legg (Legge), Scribbler, transported 1790, on the Neptune to New South Wales; 7yr;
Isaac Perrott, Clothier, aged 23, transported 1818, on the Hadlow to New South Wales, 7yr;
Thomas Smith als Thomas Riddifer, aged 28, Labourer. Formerly in local Militia, aged 28, transported 1827, on the Guildford to New South Wales; 7yr;
Mary Tavender, Servant, aged 20, transported 1841, on the Garland Grove to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
George Taylor, Labourer, aged 26, transported 1833, on the Asia to Van Dieman’s Land; 14yr;

Here is the document for Nympsfield:

William Bushell, Labourer, aged 19, transported 1830, on the Persian to Van Dieman’s Land; life;

Here is the document for Owlpen:

Thomas Dauncey als Thomas Fords, Weaver, aged 27, transported 1829, on the America to New South Wales, 7yr;
John Webb, Labourer, aged 22, transported 1830, on the Persian to Van Diemen’s Land, 7yr;

Here is the document for Painswick:

Ann Alder, Labourer, aged 37, transported 1841, on the Emma Eugenia to Van Diemen’s Land, 7yr;
Henry Beard, Cloth-worker, aged 15, transported 1827 on the Florentia, New South Wales; life;
Samuel Beard, Hatter, aged 23, transported 1821, on the Lady Ridley to Van Diemen’s Land; 7yr;
John Birt, Servant, aged 32, transported 1840, on the Duncan to Van Diemen’s Land, 14yr (CTR) or life;
Benjamin Cook (Cooke) the elder, aged 30, Labourer, transported 1838, on the Gilmore to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
Carles Cook (Cooke) the elder, aged 53, Weaver, transported 1830, on the Persian to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Isaac Estcourt, Weaver, aged 40, transported 1821 on the Lord Hungerford, New South Wales; 7yr;
James Green, Labourer, aged 27, transported 1828, on the Bengal Merchant to Van Dieman’s Land 14yr;
William Haines, Labourer, aged 20, transported 1821, on the Lady Ridley to Van Diemen’s Land, 7yr;
Thomas Lane, Servant, aged 19, transported 1833, on the Heroine to New South Wales, 7yr;
Robert Pegler, aged 36, transported 1832, on the John to New South Wales, 7yr;
Samuel Swain (Swaine), Plasterer, aged 26, transported 1832, on the Mary to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
Jacob Twining, aged 20, Labourer, transported 1837, on the Lord Lyndoch to Van Diemen’s Land, 7yr;
Thomas Twining, Baker, aged 22, transported 1837, on the Recovery to Van Diemen’s Land, 7yr;
Henry Wager, Groom, aged 20, Labourer, transported 1836, on the Lord Lyndoch to Van Diemen’s Land, life;

Here is the document for Randwick:

William Cractchley (Crutchley), aged 21, Labourer, transported 1838, on the Gilmore to Van Dieman’s Land; 15yr;
John Watkins, aged 21, Edge-tool maker, transported 1826, on the Andromeda to Van Dieman’s Land; life;

Here is the document for Rodborough:

William Biggers, Cloth-dresser, aged 26, transported 1836, on the Elphinstone to Van Diemen’s Land, 7yr;
John Buck, Shearer, aged 26, transported 1821, on the Lord Hungerford to Van Diemen’s Land; life;
James Cole, Stonemason, aged 34, transported 1835, on the Aurora to Van Diemen’s Land; life;
Thomas Dalby, aged 35, Labourer, transported 1833, on the Emperor Alexander to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Thomas Daniel, aged 16, Labourer, transported 1818, on the Shipley to New South Wales; 7yr;
Thomas Evans, Baker, aged 23, transported 1830, on the Red Rover to Van Dieman’s Land; Life;
Nathaniel Hodges, aged 40, Cloth-dresser, transported 1836, on the Elphinstone to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Thomas Latham, Cloth-worker, aged 18, transported 1833, on the Isabella to Van Dieman’s Land; Life;

Benjamin Lewis, aged 27, Cloth-dresser, transported 1838, on the Lord Lyndoch to New South Wales; 7yr;
George Matthews, Labourer, aged 24, transported 1836, on the Moffatt to New South Wales; 7yr;
William Niblett, Weaver, aged 42, transported 1820, on the Mangles to New South Wales; life;
James Walkley, Butcher, aged 50, transported 1829, on the Mermaid to New South Wales; 7yr;
William Wathen, aged 23, Labourer, transported 1818, on the Lord Melville to Van Dieman’s Land; 14yr;

Here is the document for Ruscombe:

Benjamin Pearce, Labourer, aged 23, transported 1832, on the John to New South Wales; life;

Here is the document for Stonehouse:

John Anthony, Cloth-rower, aged 18, transported 1824, on the Minstrel to New South Wales, 7yr;
Peter Bowyer als William Hayward, Clock-cleaner, aged 21, transported 1840, on the Eden to New South Wales, 30yr;
John Browning, aged 35, Labourer, transported 1839, on the Woodbridge to New South Wales, 14yr;
Edward Evans (died on voyage 7 June 1832), aged 19, Labourer, transported 1839, on the Katherine Stewart Forbes to Van Diemen’s Land,
7yr;
Jane Morgan als Anne Jackson, Labourer, aged 24, transported 1837, on the Henry Wellesley to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;

Here is the document for Stroud:

Barnaby Alder, Wool-sorter, aged 24, transported 1830, on the Persian to Van Diemen’s Land, Life;
Isaac Alder, Mason, aged 22, transported 1830, on the Persian to Van Diemen’s Land, Life;
John (als William) Alder, Labourer, aged 20, transported 1831, on the Persian to Van Diemen’s Land, Life;
George Antill, Labourer, aged 20, transported 1829, on the Layton 1 to New South Wales, 7yr;
John Apperley, Shoemaker, aged 23, transported 1834, on the Henry Tanner to New South Wales, Life;
John Barnett, Cloth-dresser, aged 28, transported 1833, on the Lloyds to New South Wales, 7yr;
George Berry, Labourer, aged 23, transported 1833, on the Emperor Alexander to Van Diemen’s Land; 7yr;
Samuel Bowley, aged 27, transported 1818, on the Lord Sidmouth to New South Wales; 7yr;
James Browning, aged 26, Weaver Formerly in 96th Reg. in West Indies, transported 1819, on the Atlas to New South Wales, 7yr;
William Burton, aged 16, transported 1821, on the Lord Shipley to New South Wales; 7yr;
Henry Clayfield, Labourer, aged 22, transported 1840, on the Lord Lyndoch to Van Diemen’s Land;15yr;
Ambrose Clissold, aged 27, transported 1791 on the Atlantic to New South Wales, 7yr;
Samuel Clissold, Labourer formerly in Marines, aged 27, transported 1819 on the Baring to New South Wales; life;
William Clissold, Weaver, aged 34 transported 1826 on the Speke to New South Wales; life;
John Cook (Cooke), aged 14, Labourer, transported 1837, on the Royal Sovereign to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Thomas Cousins (Cozens) the elder, aged 46, transported 1791 on the Atlantic to New South Wales; 7yr;
William Cox, aged 23, Cloth-worker, transported 1833, on the Asia to New South Wales, 7yr;
Richard Daniels, aged 21, Shearer, transported 1821, on the Lord Hungerford to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
Daniel Fletcher, aged 21, Servant, transported 1838, on the Earl Grey to New South Wales, 7yr;
Samuel Gabb, Cloth-rower, aged 21, transported 1830, on the David Lyon to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
John Gardner, aged 17, transported 1837, on the Recovery to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Abraham Gaston, Weaver, aged 20, transported 1835, on the John Barry to New South Wales; life;
John Grimes, Labourer, aged 18, transported 1837, on the James Pattison to New South Wales, 7yr;
Charles Grist, Cloth-worker, aged 35, transported 1830, on the David Lyon to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
James Hall, Cloth-worker, aged 19, transported 1837, on the Moffatt to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
John Hall, aged 19, transported 1818, on the Shipley to New South Wales, 7yr;
Peter Hall, Shoemaker, aged 21, transported 1837, on the Moffatt to Van Dieman’s Land; 15yr;
Thomas Hall, Labourer, aged 18, transported 1824, on the Countess of Harcourt to New South Wales, life;
William Harper, aged 30, transported 1837, on the Recovery to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Joseph Holder, Clothworker, aged 17, transported 1822, on the Caledonia to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
Thomas Holder, Stockworker, aged 21, transported 1829, on the Claudine to New South Wales; 7yr;
Charles Howard, Stonemason, aged 22, transported 1836, on the Bengal Merchant to New South Wales; 7yr;
Edward Hudd, Labourer Deserted from Plymouth Division of Marines, aged 33, transported 1838, on the Augusta Jessie to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
William Jones, Labourer, aged 19, transported 1841, on the Tortoise to Van Dieman’s Land; 10 yr;
David Keene, Weaver, aged 23, transported 1832, on the Elizabeth to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Daniel Knee als Daniel Keene, Cloth-mill worker, aged 15, transported 1826, on the Speke to New South Wales, life;
William Lander, Clothing business, aged 25, transported 1837, on the Elphinstone to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
William Marmont, Weaver, aged 18, transported 1824, on the Countess of Harcourt to New South Wales; life;
James Matthews, Blacksmith, aged 24, transported 1828, on the William Miles to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
Sarah Mills, Servant, aged 48, transported 1841, on the Garland Grove to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
John Motley als John Robinson, aged 36, transported 1819, on the Recovery to New South Wales; life;
Henry Nicholls, Rope-spinner, aged 19, transported 1837, on the Moffatt to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Richard Nicholls (Nichols), Stonmeason, aged 25, transported 1832, on the John to New South Wales; life;
Thomas Papps, Labourer, aged 16, transported 1837, on the James Pattison to New South Wales; 7yr;
William Parker the elder, Cloth-worker, aged 23, transported 1828, on the Bengal Merchant to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
William Parker the younger, Cloth-worker, aged 19, transported 1828, on the Bengal Merchant to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
John Parsons, Labourer, aged 22, transported 1837, on the Elphinstone to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Richard Pilliner, Pig-dealer, aged 18, transported 1836, on the Lord Lyndoch to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
Henry Pitt, Labourer, aged 20, transported 1829, on the Mermaid to New South Wales; 7yr;
Thomas Pitt, Labourer, aged 16, transported 1838, on the Theresa to New South Wales; 7yr;
William Poulton, Labourer, aged 25, transported 1833, on the Emperor Alexander to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Eliza Powell, Cloth-worker, aged 20, transported 1840, on the Navarino to Van Die,man’s Land ; 12yr;
James Roberts, Tailor, aged 20, transported 1832, on the Katherine Stewart Forbes to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
William Slade, Servant, aged 22, transported 1827, on the John to New South Wales; life;
Henry Smart, Butcher, aged 23, transported 1831, on the Lord Lyndoch to Van Dieman’s Land; 14yr;
Amelia Smith w. of Joseph q.v., Shopkeeper, aged 37, transported 1825, on the Providence to Van Dieman’s Land; 14yr;
Charles Smith, Scamp and bone-picker, aged 17, transported 1838, on the Gilmore to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
Edmund Smith als Edward Smith, Labourer, aged 18, transported 1834, on the Henry Tanner to New South Wales; life;
George Smith, aged 20, transported 1834, on the Henry Tanner to New South Wales; 7yr;
George Smith, Weaver, aged 32, transported 1838, on the Eden to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Joseph Smith h. of Amelia q.v., Dealer in marine stores. Formerly serves in E. India Co., aged 52, transported 1826, on the Chapman to Van Dieman’s Land; 14yr;
Nathaniel Smith, Weaver, aged 24, transported 1838, on the Coromandel to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
Edmund Tyler, Sawyer, aged 18, transported 1842, on the Emily to Van Diemen’s Land, 10yr;
Edwin Walkley, Mason’s labourer, aged 15, transported 1837, on the James Pattison to New South Wales; 7yr;
John Ward, Clothing business, aged 17, transported 1835, on the Susan to New South Wales; 7yr;
James Wathen, Blacksmith, aged 23, transported 1832, on the Katherine Stewart Forbes to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Joseph Wathen, aged 20, Hawker, transported 1837, on the Henry Wellesley to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Joseph White s. of Ann q.v., aged 22, transported 1820, on the Neptune to New South Wales, 7yr;
Thomas White, Labourer, aged 26, transported 1838, on the Earl Grey to New South Wales, 15yr;
Thomas Wilkins, als Samuel Smith als James Williams, White, aged 49, transported 1828, on the Countess of Harcourt to New South Wales, 7yr;
William Williams, aged 32, Weaver, transported 1830, on the Red Rover to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
George Winn, Clothing business, aged 25, transported 1836, on the Bengal Merchant to New South Wales; 7yr;
Thomas Winn, Boatman, aged 19, transported 1838, on the Gilmore to Van Diemen’s Land; 30yr;
William Wood, Labourer, aged 20, transported 1828, on the Vittoria to New South Wales, life;
Thomas Worden (Wording) Labourer, aged 16, transported 1829, on the Layton to New South Wales, 7yr;

Here is the document for Thrupp:

James Grimes, Labourer, aged 26, transported 1818, on the Shipley to New South Wales, 7yr;

Here is the document for Uley:

William Birt, Spinner, formerly a soldier in 66th Reg. of Foot, aged 40, transported 1818, on the Shipley to New South Wales, 7yr;
James Croome, Mason, aged 22, transported 1830, on the Persian to Van Diemen’s Land, Life;
Thomas Croome, Labourer, aged 20, transported 1831, on the Isabella to New South Wales, 7yr;
Isaac Fisher, aged 29, Weaver, transported 1832, on the John to New South Wales, life;
Joseph Fisher, aged 29, Handle-Setter, transported 1825, on the Minstrel to New South Wales, 14yr;
William Flint, aged 35, transported 1820, on the Maria to Van Diemen’s Land, 7yr;
Nathaniel Ford, Weaver, aged 20, transported 1830, on the Persian to Van Diemen’s Land; 14yr;
Joseph Hatherall, Weaver, aged 26, transported 1826, on the Andromeda to Van Diemen’s Land; life;
William Hill, als William Harris, aged 27, Thatcher, transported 1820 on the Maria to Van Dieman’s Land 7yr;
William Hurcombe, Labourer, aged 22, transported 1842, on the Emily to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr & 2wks;
Jacob Jefferies, Labourer, aged 31, transported 1838, on the Augusta Jessie to Van Dieman’s Land; 15yr;
Nathaniel Poole, Cooper, aged 20, transported 1831, on the Lord Lyndoch to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
Daniel Riddiford, Shearman, aged 31, transported 1819, on the Baring to New South Wales (5 sick convicts landed in Van Dieman’s Land); 7yr;
Benjamin Robbins, Weaver, aged 34, transported 1831, on the Elizabeth to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr

Here is the document for Woodchester:

Nathaniel Beard, Cloth-worker, aged 16, transported 1832, on the Surrey 1 to Van Diemen’s Land; Life;
Charles Haines (Haynes), Brazier, aged 25, transported 1829, on the Prince Regent to Van Diemen’s Land, 7yr;
Robert Harrison, aged 31, transported 1819, on the Recovery to New South Wales, life;
James Peters, Baker, transported 1791, on the Atlantic (app) 27 March 1791 (embarked on Neptune Dec 1789 but did not sail then) to New South Wales, 7yr;
John Shipton, Waterman, aged 25, transported 1832, on the Hercules to New South Wales; life;

Here is the document for Wotton-under-Edge:

George Aldridge, Spinner, aged 19, transported 1831, on the Isabella to New South Wales, 7yr;
Charles Brown, aged 23, Labourer, transported 1832, on the Mary to New South Wales, life;
James Candy, aged 27, Shearman, transported 1830, on the Manlius to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
John Candy, aged 30, Spinner, transported 1830, on the Manlius to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Joseph Clarke, Labourer, aged 21, transported 1824, on the Countess of Harcourt to New South Wales; 7yr;
George Collins, Labourer, aged 18, transported 1836, on the Lady Nugent to Van Diemen’s Land; life;
Charles Cossens, aged 19, Labourer, transported 1831, on the Gilmore to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
James Cossens, aged 19, Labourer, transported 1831, on the Strathfieldsay to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Thomas Cossens, aged 23, Labourer, transported 1831, on the Emperor Alexander to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
Edward Cox, aged 23, Labourer, transported 1831, on the Isabella to New South Wales, 7yr;
George Dando, aged 19, Labourer, transported 1833 on the Chapman to Van Dieman’s Land 7yr;
John Downs (Downes), aged 17, Shoemaker, transported 1833 on the Lloyds to Van Dieman’s Land 7yr;
Samuel Fowler, aged 19, Weaver, transported 1820, on the Neptune to New South Wales, 7yr;
William Griffin, Labourer, aged 19, transported 1820,on the Neptune to New South Wales, 7yr;
Daniel Hall, aged 26, Labourer, transported 1821 on the Malabar to Van Dieman’s Land 7yr;
Jeremiah Harmer, aged 29, Thatcher, transported 1818 on the Lord Melville to Van Dieman’s Land 7yr;
William Hayward, aged 26, Labourer, transported 1831 on the Lord Lyndoch to Van Dieman’s Land life;
Samuel Holder, Clothworker, aged 18, transported 1831, on the Gilmore to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
William Hunt, Brickmaker, aged 24, transported 1830, on the Clyde to Van Dieman’s Land; 14yr;
John King, Weaver, aged 22, transported 1820,on the Elizabeth to New South Wales, 7yr;
Joseph Knight, Weaver, aged 40, transported 1831, on the Larkins to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
John Lewis, Weaver, aged 19, transported 1831, on the Gilmore to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Thomas Organ, Labourer, aged 26, transported 1828, on the Bengal Merchant to Van Dieman’s Land; 7yr;
Robert Pegler (Peglar), Labourer, aged 23, transported 1831, on the Lord Lyndoch to Van Dieman’s Land; life;
Joseph Phillips, Accountant, aged 30, transported 1841, on the Tortoise to Van Dieman’s Land; 15yr;
Joseph Povey, Clothing business, aged 19, transported 1831, on the Elizabeth to Van Dieman’s Land; 14yr;
Lewis Rymer, Labourer, aged 20, transported 1832 on the John to New South Wales, 7yr;
Elihu Smith, Tailor, aged 23, transported 1835, on the Susan to New South Wales; life;
Henry Summers als Henry Rice, Clothing-mill boy, aged 15, transported 1840, on the Hindostan to Van Dieman’s Land; 10yr;
Henry Walker, Labourer, aged 25, transported 1833 on the Lord Lyndoch to New South Wales, 7yr;
Edwin Webb, aged 20, Weaver, transported 1836, on the James Pattison to New South Wales, life;
Michael Witts, Labourer, aged 22, transported 1830, on the Florentia to New South Wales, 14yr;
William Woollen, Labourer, aged 20, transported 1842 on the Candahar to Van Diemen’s Land; 21yr;
Henry Workman, Stock-worker, aged 28, transported 1827, on the John to New South Wales, life;
Charles Young, Labourer, aged 30, transported 1838, on the Coromandel to Van Dieman’s Land; 10yr;
Joseph Young, Lsbourer, Formerly a soldier in the 32nd Reg., aged 27, transported 1819, on the Eliza to New South Wales, 7yr;