Author: Stuart Butler

Stroud Brewery

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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.

The 1766 Food Riots and the Hangman’s Noose

 

The Stroud-water Food Riots and the Hangman’s Noose

Prologue:

Gilbert White, August 1st 1786:

‘The poor begin to glean wheat. The country looks very rich, being finely diversified with crops of corn of various sorts, and colours.’

John Keats, To Autumn – 1819:

‘Who hath not seen thee oft amid they store?

Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find

Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,

Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;

Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,

Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hook

Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers;

And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep

Steady thy laden head across a brook… ‘

Chapter the First:

Bread of Heaven, the Staff of Life,

A biblical motif of justice

For the miller who grinds so small –

And should thee not eat thy bread,

‘By the sweat of thy brow’?

Chapter the Second:

Thus, the Stroudwater food riots of the 18th and early 19th century

Have a provenance ground in Time Immemorial,

Hence the banner:

‘We might as well be hanged as starved’,

When poor harvests, high food prices,

Dealers, middlemen, speculators, and ‘corn-jobbers’,

All conspired to exploit shortages for private profit,

As local labourers, shepherds, spinners, weavers, smiths and so on,

Observed the transport of local grain to far-off markets

(Such as Lechlade, bound for London),

With a perturbed sense of injustice.

Chapter the Third:

So horns were blown, banners raised, flags waved,

Crowds gathered with their chosen ‘regulators’,

Gathering in lanes, fields and inns,

No malice aforethought,

But a spontaneous reaction after arguments over prices,

Hunger, want, profit and justice –

A crowd swelling

To determine prices at market,

In the city of Gloucester, the towns of Stroud and Cirencester,

Calling at village, hamlet, granary, mill, baker’s, huckster’s, factor’s, and warehouse,

Taking stocks of food such as corn, flour, bread, bacon, cheese, butter,

Paying a ‘fair’ price, for redistribution,

Sometimes destroying the flour of speculators,

As at a mill at Painswick;

Crowds, regulating themselves,

Sometimes a thousand strong,

As on the march from Stroud to Cirencester,

Across the fields of Rodborough and Minchinhampton,

Gathering supporters from Thrupp, Brimscombe, Chalford,

Eastcombe, Bisley, Oakridge, Frampton Mansell,

Sapperton and Coates,

Sub-dividing into smaller groups to comb the valley bottoms,

An algorithm of determination,

Whilst others listened to the tattoo of horses,

Observing the troops moving in detachment,

Lines of Stroud Scarlet moving with officers’ orders,

And there, the sheriff with his javelin men:

‘On Friday last a Mobb was rais’d in these parts by the blowing of Horns &c consisting entirely of the lowest of the people such as weavers, mecanicks, labourers, prentices and boys, &c’,

‘They proceeded to a gristmill near the town … cutting open Baggs of Flower and giving & carrying it away and destroying corn &c’,

But in the main, Sheriff Dalloway said, they ‘behaved with great regularity and decency where they were not opposed and violence where they was; but pilferd very little, which to prevent, they will not now suffer women and boys to go with them.’

Chapter the Fourth:

The crowd,

Observing a fall in prices,

As landlords and gentry responded to the crowds,

By suggesting to their tenant farmers, that corn should be sent straight to market,

The gentry,

Watching ringleaders claim that they were in fact maintaining the law

Rather than breaking it:

‘Many that are under sentence of death thought they were doing a meritorious act at the very moment they were forfeiting their lives’,

As bread and corn were intercepted not just on road and in lane,

Stopping cart or heavy waggon,

But also on canal,

Inland navigations,

And the River Severn,

When barges laden with corn would be boarded.

Chapter the Fifth:

I sometimes walk around Ruscombe, near Stroud,

When I pop out from school at lunchtime,

And there in the lane is Baker’s Cottage –

In 1766, Hester and Jane Pitt pushed Mary Cooke off her horse,

And made off with a good baker’s dozen of 16 loaves,

Just here;

And when I bike up to Minchinhampton after school,

If I concentrate hard, then I can hear the noise of the cheese rioting

At Farmer Collett’s,

When Mary Hillier shouted to her comrades:

‘Mr Butt was come home & had fired a gun and killed two children’,

‘Come back and pull down the house’,

And when the High Street in Stroud is deserted at night,

Do I glimpse Sarah Franklyn and her husband, John?

Stealing out of a shop door,

Their laps filled with glue and soap and candles and tapers and other sundry items?

‘You do, sir. We did do the stealing sir and John was transported to America with a seven-year sentence for grand larceny. As John’s wife, sir, I was held to be not responsible for my actions and so was acquitted, much to my surprise, sir. But any pleasure was tarnished by the loss of my husband, sir. Although that melancholy is nought to the anguish I went through the night before our sentencing when we were in Gloucester Gaol. My mind was an open thoroughfare and turnpike for phantoms all through that night and the only tolls they paid was to fray my nerves.

I saw us both on the execution cart, making our doleful way through the crowded lanes of Brookthorpe, Standish, Stonehouse, Ebley, Cainscross, Stroud and Rodborough, and so, eventually, to the gallows and gibbet standing tall at Tom Long’s Post.

And there, in their thousands, all clad in their solemn Sunday best or their starched white smocks, silent as the grave, stood our well wishers. And there in front was the Sheriff, Mr Dalloway, with his javelin men in all of their finery too, clip clopping their way with their customary pomp and condescension. And then we came, the two of us in the cart, with the vicar and the hangman. Then behind us, the special constables and the gaoler.

The cart inched its way to the gallows, where the noose was placed around my husband’s neck. I was instructed to drop my kerchief when my husband gave me the nod that he was ready. The vicar got himself ready and I heard him whisper to the gaoler that he should pull on John’s feet should my husband kick in his death throes, as he dangled, after the cart rolled on. I was then asked what I would like to see done with John’s body: the gibbet or dissection by the surgeons.

I was later told that having spent a considerable time screaming and crying in my sleep, I then seemed to compose myself, sweat dripping down my clammy brow, opened my eyes, and sat bolt upright as one possessed and spoke these words as if in a trance:

The assembly gathers all around

From hills and valleys nearby Stroud,

A ghastly hangman is the host

At Rodborough Common’s Tom Long Post,

The throng is reverent, full of fear,

The condemned man now sheds a tear,

All is silent as the kerchief falls,

The cart rolls off – and Heaven calls.

As I said to you, sir, the night before was far worse than even that lamentable day of judgement.’

Chapter the Sixth:

I shall take a walk to Tom Long’s Post and pay my respects to Sarah and John Franklyn and recall her over zealous imagination on that tortured night in Gloucester Gaol. There will be cars and golfers rather than phantoms and gallows. But I may catch a glimpse of the ghosts of another crowd, with their banners and flags and corn-emblems of justice, on their determined march to Cirencester market.

Books and articles used in this recreation and reimagining:

British Trades Unionism 1750-1850, John Rule;

Moral Economy and Popular Protest – ed. Randall and Charlesworth;

Customs in Common, EP Thompson;

‘For the Benefit of Example’: Crime-Scene Executions in England 1720-1830, Steve Poole;

Raphael Samuel, Theatres of Memory

Creating Memorials Building Identities The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic

(Alan Price Liverpool University Press 2012)

http://www.britishhistory.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol11/pp184-190

There is an information plaque in Stroud:

The Shambles

‘Here is Stroud’s market, traditionally a place of plenty. But in 1766 it was the focus for bread riots by hungry Stroud cloth workers who couldn’t afford the price of a loaf. These rioters were severely put down by the Sheriff of Gloucestershire and his ‘javelin’ men – and the ringleaders hanged.

Perhaps these rioters inspired a group of Stroud boys to string up one of their friends – nine-year old Alexander Ball – as a prank. Luckily for him, he was cut down just in time by a passer-by. And luckily for posterity too, for he went on to become one of Nelson’s bravest and most talented naval officers, Sir J.A. Ball, who captured Malta and defended it against a French siege – achievements celebrated in Coleridge’s poem ‘The Friend’.

Four paragraphs then follow about the surrounding buildings and architecture, and then a chronicle-list of dates and events.

Raphael Samuel wrote how heritage and tradition can become ‘an expressive totality … projecting a unified set of meanings which are impervious to challenge … a fixed narrative which allows neither sub-text nor counter-readings … ‘, but, ‘History is an allegorical as well as … a mimetic art … We find occult meanings in apparently simple truths’.

“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 Stroudwater hills and valleys

With messages and mementoes from a riotous past,

Open doors to the truth –

So how do we create a counter-narrative?

“A performative counter-narrative … a ‘guerrilla memory’”,

“Lieux de memoire, sites of history, torn away from the moment of history”

(Pierre Nora),

Memorialisation that moves beyond the empirical,

The documented, the evidenced and the historical,

To a counter-heritage, a counter-memorialisation…

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…

 

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.

The View from the Rock

The View From The Rock in NYC

The sign said that you could
‘Travel anywhere free in Manhattan for ten dollars’,
The best example of Marcusian unification of opposites,
Marxian false consciousness, and oxymoronic logic
I’ve seen anywhere;
But those advertisements help soften your mind
As a sort of hors d’oeuvre to Times Square,
The Rockefeller Centre, Rockefeller Plaza
And the Rockefeller world synecdoche,
Where the present tense meets Fritz Lang’s Metropolis,
Huxley’s Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984,
Where a cathedral of capitalism,
A tribute to consumption
And a monument to hedonism
Transport and process the market,
Beneath the giant biblical homily:
‘Wisdom and Knowledge are the Stability of thy Times’.

Nature and the world are playgrounds here,
Playgrounds to be conquered:
An ice skating rink, the flags of the world,
Grinning shoppers clutching their bags …
Queues for the Top of the Rock,
Queue for a view,
Where you pay for a view:
A panorama for 30 dollars,
360 degrees for 30 dollars,
The Empire State Building and towering icon upon icon
(But no biblical reference to the Tower of Babel),
Air conditioning – such a term – working everywhere overtime,
Oh look! There’s Central Park,
But too high to see the wood for the trees;
ANY
Point of view,
As long as you pay for it,
As long as it’s filtered
Through the Rockefeller propaganda machine:
You wouldn’t know from your visit
That he was a Social Darwinist,
That his firm Standard Oil,
Was assailed in the courts with anti-trust suits –
Even capitalist ethics questioned his monopolistic practices,
Who would know that Standard Oil
Waged war on trade unions and the Wobblies,
For when you enter the building,
Having been assailed by Disneyfication
Meet and greet performers,
A giant information panel tells us how grateful
A trade union leader was in 1932
For the construction of the building,
It brought work to the poverty stricken victims
Of the Wall Street Crash:
Rockefeller as beneficent philanthropist:
If it wasn’t for the rich, then the poor wouldn’t have any jobs,
This is what my gran used to tell me …
Outside St Patrick’s Cathedral,
Beggars on the streets and on the subway,
An incontinent young man in a wheel chair,
Head bent down,
Travelling God knows where
And for how long past Grand Central –
If you need private health care
Here for your physical health,
What of mental health?
How many mentally ill people did we see in the streets?
Shouting at no one in particular and nothing that made sense,
At crossing ways and subway entrances;
How many did we see aimlessly pushing trolleys,
Laden with black bin bags of clothing looking for a doorway,
Or some warm shelter for the night;
How many homeless did we see queuing for a bed for the night?
Sometimes you have to be in the gutter
To see the wood for the trees,
Rather than on top of the world,
You get false consciousness up there,
It’s a Fairy Tale of New York.

Mocking Birds Don’t Do One Thing Except

We were walking the New York High Line,
The old freight line of lower Manhattan,
On the hottest October day since 1928 –
So Trish took a breather on a bench
Beneath some tangled autumn branches;
A mocking bird immediately began to sing
‘Melodious at the noontide of the day’,
A couple of feet right above her head:
“It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”…
“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing
except make music for us to enjoy.”

We were walking the New York High Line,
The old freight line of lower Manhattan,
On the hottest October day since 1928 –
So Trish took a breather on a bench
Beneath some tangled autumn branches;
A mocking bird immediately began to sing
‘Melodious at the noontide of the day’,
A couple of feet right above her head:
“It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”…
“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing
except make music for us to enjoy.”

A crowd gathered to watch and listen,
Cameras clicking, selfy snapping,
Lost in the moment of preserving the present,
Oblivious to its elegy and lament:
Ghosts of the Lenape tribe slipped
Scarlet legged through the trees, and edgelands,
Through the penthouses, warehousing and freight yards:
Some harvesting squash, maize and beans,
Some foraging for wild leeks and onions,
Blueberries, walnuts, chestnuts and acorns;
Some hunting, some chanting:
Their songs echoing among the skyscrapers,
Their song of beaver, muskrat, otter,
Mink, marten, deer, elk, moose, bison, bear,
Fox, wolf, cougar, bobcat, lynx, crane, osprey,
Wild turkey, eagle, curlew, whale, wild oyster,
And the teeming shoals of spawning fish.

Trish got up and we resumed our walk;
The mocking bird stopped its song.
The Lenape disappeared,
The selfies stopped,
The crowd moved on.

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.

https://www.facebook.com/upperlockcafe/

Twitter: @UpperLock

An American in Stroud

So, will this fog be gone by mid-day? No, I wouldn’t think so. Won’t the sun burn the fog off? Not really. No.

Off we go.

Cows, pastures, more cows, and a few sheep later. I’ve enjoyed yet another day of rainy-day walking in the local area. My guests apologize again for the bad weather but I point out that no weather is bad weather when you’re from Boston, and it’s January. Actually I’m from north of Boston. North enough of Boston to think that fog, rain and temperatures above freezing are considered nice weather. I am talking REALLY enjoyable. There’s no ice underfoot and I can feel my face. To me that’s nice weather for January.

An American In Stroud Photo
An American In Stroud Photo

So, will this fog be gone by mid-day? No, I wouldn’t think so. Won’t the sun burn the fog off? Not really. No. 

Off we go. 

Cows, pastures, more cows, and a few sheep later. I’ve enjoyed yet another day of  rainy-day walking in the local area. My guests apologize again for the bad weather but I point out that no weather is bad weather when you’re from Boston, and it’s January. Actually I’m from north of Boston. North enough of Boston to think that fog, rain and temperatures above freezing are considered nice weather. I am talking REALLY enjoyable. There’s no ice underfoot and I can feel my face. To me that’s nice weather for January. 

My first day in Stroud began with a familiar trip, straight up hill to Stroud cemetery, with my furry friend, Hector. I’d been there before of course, but I left the directions up to Hector. Which way Hector, left or right? Hector was giving me definitive answers until I asked him how old the church was. About that he was more unclear, so we both just stood there and stared for a minute. I was rather pleased because Hector seemed to really see that church for the first time, you know. We headed back in through the arch, to find a plaque. Left, no right, left, back out again. Where is the damn plaque? I sensed annoyance from Hector. You Americans! Make up your mind for goodness sake. I need to head home and check my pee mail before the fam gets back. 

No plaque. Seriously Stroud, you need plaques. I know you have just loads of old stuff. But add a plaque for us new-worlders. Please. In America we add plaques to everything that makes it over 100 years. We’re just so excited when that happens. 

Day two. Out to dinner and then a nice walk home. In the dark. The long way around. Wow, those views are just so fantastic at night, and so little fog! A few roads are “murder-her-and-throw-the-body-in-the-woods” dark but that makes the walk more fun. I’m not going to tell anyone how cute Stroud is until I’ve bought myself a little cottage overlooking those twinkling lights of downtown. Then we can post this review and increase house values.

When I wake up my quads are a tiny bit stiff. Last time I felt that was walking the streets of San Francisco. Maybe it was all the walking in heels? I have a suitcase full of shoes but none of them appropriate for Stroud. 

Day three, headed to Cirencester to buy sensible shoes. And a shoebrush for the mud. 

Waiting For A Steed

There aren’t many Americans who can claim they have been to four, yes four events at Chavenage House. I am talking EVENTS – ball gowns, cocktail hour, formal photographs, champagne-swigging events. The whole 9-yards. I have the distinction of being the only American to have that honour. (Write-Ins entries will be accepted.) I keep waiting in the courtyard for the handsome titled Englishman to ride in, but when I wander outside I usually just get asked to have a smoke with the 20-something crowd.

Whenever I go to Chavenage I have the same experience I do when visiting a beautiful old church that has been converted into a restaurant. I wonder if somehow that old structure groans to find itself in this embarrassing position. Like an 80-year-old former high school beauty queen finding herself in the food pantry line, or foodbanks, as you call them in the UK. She had such an auspicious start in life and never pictured ending up in this sorry spot. She just figured her life would stay grand based on her looks alone. But time marches on and sadly enough, keeping up your good looks takes time and money. A facelift only takes you so far. More foundational work must be done.  The modern look changes you somehow and it’s never quite the same. Your value becomes only a link to the past. Stay cheerful, updated, and make money or no one will want you anymore.

Gentle readers may ask why I have been to four events at Chavenage, but just ask around town and someone will point out the traditional 16th century cottage where Hector lives. He has an ordinary family life, other than the blow-out party every five years. Someone’s always getting married or having a birthday worthy of dusting off the formal wear and dance shoes. Our cabby says he takes someone to Chavenage every week, and yet in his confusion we get dropped off at the stables and mistaken for the help. 

Time To Go Home 

I’m sorry. HOW much is a rail ticket to Paddington from Stroud? I blink, staring at the register. It says 101, but surely it must cost more than a pound and a pence. But it wasn’t; it was one hundred and one. I blink again. I’m sorry, don’t you have socialized, subsidized railways? What the hell? I can get into Boston for 15 bucks on the train. It’s how much? Seriously? (Looks like someone’s let the Tories back in.)

I’m sure gentle readers will remember that Monday. You know, the Monday of the tube strike, mud slide, heavy fog at Heathrow, motorcycle accident on the highway? That is how the day of Trains Planes and Automobiles started and before it ended I had a four hour journey to the airport that involved to die version buses, two full pat downs, two, take everything out, luggage searches, and one confiscated cosmetic bag.  Headed for 3 days of New York business meetings without anti-perspirant or make-up. That always impresses the NY business crowd. 20 hours later I land in New York, in eye-tearing cold with only a raincoat. At least I have sensible shoes now.

Has it been 5-years yet? 

Note from the editor:

Many thanks to Mel for penning this – btw, I think Chalford is about 100 miles from Paddington by rail. Mel’s one way ticket would cost her about a £ a mile …

 

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;