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Before my grandmother married she was called Polly Mabey / Butler.

She lived at Hambrook / Winterbourne area until she married my grandfather and moved to Bath.

Polly was one of 10 children born to William and Jane Maby.

I would love to hear from any of the family.         Margaret Gooding
I live in Tasmania Australia and am researching my ggg grandparent, Stephen Frankcombe, who married Hannah Pullin at Winterbourne. In frustration for information I have been writing letters to people with associated names who still live in the area - Hollister Harcombe - Hulbert.
I would very much like contact with the Pullin family, or anyone who can help with the other families.      Betty Brady-Francombe
Phillip Marsh is interested in any information or photographs relating to people in the care of the Downend Cottages and Eastville Workhouse from 1898 to 1910, with the surname Marsh.

     Part of my family history research includes my great grandfather Robert Daniel Maggs who moved from Coalpit Heath to work in South Wales early in the last century, returning there with wife Hester around 1935. These great grandparents of mine are buried at St Saviour's Church. Robert Daniel's father John Maggs died in 1890, but mother Elizabeth Maggs lived until 1942.
     Elizabeth's burial is recorded at All Saints on 17th April 1942, aged 91 years, last abode 'near Palmer's Stores', Winterbourne Down.
     I would love to hear from anyone with any additional information on these ancestors, maybe the holy grail of a photograph of Elizabeth could be found.                                                               Roy Williams (son of Anita Maggs)

BAWN  {also Bawne and Baun}  living within the Winterbourne Parish mainly in Frenchay but also in Hambrook they were in the main Stone Masons. Some of the family moved into Bristol (Clifton) in the 1870/80s. I assume in search of work.

HATHERLEY   sometimes spelt  Atherley. Joseph/John Hatherley was originally from Hereford, however he was working as an agricultural labourer for the Matthews family in the 1840s. His employer would appear to be Charles Matthews, however I have also come across references to William Matthews as being his landlord. Were William and Charles Matthews related ?
In 1863, Joseph/John's daughter Elizabeth born 1841 in Hambrook married Thomas Bawn born 1833 in Frenchay and they are my paternal great grand parents.

I would be interested to contact any others researching these families.      Geraldine David
My name is Angela White and I am doing my family tree.        I'm looking for any Players in Winterbourne, most of them lived around Watleys End. I have got as far as George Player born around 1805 married to Ann Lovell born around 1801. There are a few descendants I have been unable to find on the parish records but a few names I've heard of not been able to find. Can anyone help, Angie?

I am attempting to trace my father’s family which lived, at least for a time, in Winterbourne. My grandfather, Samuel Thomas Stone, was the postman when my father, James Riley, and his brother, Richard Riley, were born in 1908 and 1910 respectively. I do not know if the Stones were a local family.  I know that by 1914 they were living in Reading.  I would appreciate any information which would help me in my search.                                       Shelley (Stone) Bouska, Canada.

In the book Around Frampton Cotterell, there is a photo of the Old Brewery, Watley's End, picturing the Thynne family. The write up says that in the cellar the name of SF Flook was found inscribed there, and that the Flooks and the Thynnes were distantly related.  Would any reader know how these two families are linked?
Would love to hear from anyone with any information.

       Joy Todd
I am looking for any information on the Upton family from Winterbourne. I have traced back to John Upton born about 1735 who married Ann Adams 02/08/1763 at Winterbourne. The surname was recorded as Umpton on some of the records. I would love to hear from anyone who knows of this family. Many thanks. Marcelle.
     I am a direct descendant of Thomas Tillott, husbandman, living at Hambrook, buried at Winterbourne on 30 July 1607. I have amassed a database of more than 2500 people descending, like me, from this one man. His burial is the earliest reference I can find to the family in the Bristol area, and apart from 'us' the surname is completely restricted to Norfolk and Suffolk'.
     I would be most interested to be in touch with anyone who has researched the early history of Winterbourne and its families. Has anyone turned up the Tillett name in court or manorial records anywhere earlier than this?  What records like that still exist, and where are they? And has anyone looked at any remaining trade or naval records - on the theory that Thomas or an immediate ancestor might have started off in say Norwich, Ipswich, Yarmouth or King's Lynn, and then just jumped ship when he got to Bristol?
               Many thanks, (Revd) Selwyn Tillett, Norfolk.

Hi, I am a Stiddard from Bristol and may be able to help add to this family tree, I have some limited knowledge of my descendants going back to the three brothers James, Robert and Tom Stiddard born in the 1850s onward. Especially Robert (Bob) who married Elisabeth (Bessie) who had three children Harold, Phyllis and Raymond. I would be interested in any details around the Stiddards in Bristol and happy to help in filling in any gaps for others.             

Regards, Andy Stiddard

 Does anyone have any information about the Wenn family who lived in Winterbourne Down? My mother was Dorothy Helen, born in 1925, and her mother was Edith Constance, her father Robert Montford Wenn.               Kath Bradley
I am researching my family tree and have found out that my great great grandmother was Elizabeth Susanna HOLLISTER, from Winterbourne, born about 1810.   However, I see that there were an awful lot of Hollisters in Winterbourne and that there were at least three Elizabeth Hollister born between 1810 and 1812. One was Elizabeth born 1810, daughter of Jacob and Susanna, one was Elizabeth born 1811, daughter of Mark and Susanna and a third was Elisabeth, born 1812, daughter of John and Mary, [but it would appear that she married a John Sargent.]   My Elizabeth married William Joint, a tailor who lived in Hotwells. Elizabeth and William were married in 1833. Their eldest son, Thomas, married Theresa Oaten, originally from Taunton and Thomas' eldest son married Hannah Sophia Stickler, from Pucklechurch.

I was hopeful that perhaps someone may have the answer to which of these Elizabeth's was mine.

John Richards, Kingswood Bristol.

John Lloyd is seeking information and/or any family connection to the John and Mary Lloyd family of Winterbourne, Gloucester.  John and Mary's children were: Joseph 1749, John 1751, Eleanor 1753, Mary 1756 and my ancestor, John 1759, who married Catherine Williams of Westerleigh in 1781.  John was a butcher by trade and resided in Mangotsfield, Gloucester.

Children of John and Catherine Lloyd are: Mary 1782, John 1784, William 1786 (my ancestor), Anne 1788, Elizabeth 1790, and the twins Edward and Sackville born in 1793.

Rob Dale is researching the Elsworthy family of Frenchay, and in particular Mary Ann Elsworthy.

Rob's gggrandfather was Alfred Elsworthy, baptised 23 March 1845 at Frenchay. Alfred's father was Fredrick, born about 1796 at Henbury Glos; a gardener. Alfred's mother was Mary Ann Elsworthy, born about 1803 at Old Sodbury, Glos.

Rob would be pleased to hear from anyone with information on this family.

Deirdre Whiting is researching two families. The first one is Henry (died 1861) & Sarah PEARSE (died 1862) of Frenchay Flour Mill. Sarah was Sarah WEBB from Melksham who married Henry in Melksham in 1822.

The second family is the HOBBS family who lived next door in the Iron Mill. Thomas John Croom Hobbs had a son Henry who in Oct 1861 married Jane Webb at Melksham. Jane was the dau of Sarah's brother William. In 1861 Jane's brother Thomas (my great grandfather) was staying with Henry & Sarah.

I do have more information and I would be interested in contacting anyone researching these families.
   I'm researching the families of my 3GGP, William BOWYER and Temperance HALE.      William, b abt 1778, was a hatter, apprenticed to Isaac HALE in Frampton Cotterell. He and Temperance married at FC in 1800. The FC children were Elizabeth 1801, Anne 1863, Onebye 1806, Temperance (my 2GGM) 1808, Saul 1812 and Hannah Hale 1815.
   Tantalisingly, a couple who married in 1813 and brought up their three/four children in Winterbourne, Thomas BOWYER, hatter, and Hannah HALE, used a similar naming pattern, making me wonder if they could be two brothers marrying two sisters. The Winterbourne children were Anne Hale 1815, Mary Anne 1818, Benjamin Hale 1822 and a possible Silence 1823 (d/o Thomas and Anne, rather than Hannah).
I'd be delighted if there is a HALE/BOWYER researcher out there.      Joy Hungerford
Sue Hale is currently researching the Dando family from Nibley, Harding family from Hambrook (not from Maules nursery) and Pearce family from Winterbourne and is willing to share information with any interested parties.  
I'm trying to trace any brothers or sisters of John Screen (Skreen). I know that he was born in 1811 in Frampton Cotterell and that he married Mary Rowland in 1833 in Winterbourne.  I think that his father's name was William and his mother was Sarah (Gregory). If anyone can help me to find records or know any details it would help finish off my wife's Family Tree.
           Thank you, Julian Hinch.
Hilary Dyer is researching Maggs of Winterbourne, and is looking for help to find Birth or Baptism of  Herod Maggs born about 1798-1802, Winterbourne, Glos area.  
Linda Hedlund, living in Sweden, is researching her family history and would like information on two people believed to have lived in the Bristol area 1944-1946.....
(1) Jean Gerlach  (2) Robert Kirwan (US forces)
   Carol Parker is looking for the Gould family of Hambrook, 1835-37 at least. Their daughter Maria married Hezekiah Parsons of Congresbury Somerset, in Bristol 8th April 1866. They kept a drapers shop in Easton. Can anyone help?
Mike Smith of Worcester would like to hear from anyone researching the Pincott family in the Winterbourne area.  
Chris Heal is gathering material for a comprehensive paper on 'The Hatters of Winterbourne (and South Gloucestershire)' and would welcome any material, records, anecdotes, or suggestions. Local visits can be arranged.

Robert Campbell, in Brisbane, Australia, is researching the Simmonds family and would like to hear from anyone else researching this family in the Winterbourne area.

George Simmonds, a hatter, was baptised in Frampton Cotterell in 1797. His father, Robert Simmonds (1767), also a hatter of Frampton Cotterell, was buried at Watley's End, Winterbourne in 1854.

  

   Chris Heal is researching the Maggs family (great grandfather George, 1847-1934, son of Isaac Maggs and Martha England, left Winterbourne about 1874 to make his fortune in Cardiff.

   So far Chris has connections from Winterbourne through Maggs to Amook, Amos, Bancroft, Barnes, Bisp, Blissett, Clery, Cole, Cousins, Curtis, Dobner, Edwards England, Ferris, Fisher, Flooks, Fowler, Gay, Gibbon, Harmer, Hemmings, Hibbs, Hollister, Jones, Lawrence, Loughlan, McGrath, Morgan, Oliver, Parker, Parsons, Pearce, Philips, Postans, Rodman, Skuse, Smith, Tanner, Tichbon, Thornell, Wakefield, Webley, Wheeler, Wickham, etc.

I am seeking to make contact with anyone sharing my genetic line.  Anyone with a family history with the following names & predominantly (but not exclusively!) from these areas, please get in touch.  HARMER (Winterbourne), WOLLEN (Iron Acton), SMART (Frampton Cotterell, WHITE (Alveston), BOON (Bristol).

          Thanks, Kerry Wollen

  

Ellen Thyne/Thynne.       Ellen, husband John and daughter Margaret are in the 1891 census for Watley's End. 

John died in 1892 and Margaret in 1893, both at Watley's End.

Ellen not showing in the 1901 census.

I cannot find a death or burial record for Ellen.

Is there anyone with a suggestion?  All help gratefully received.

               Joy Todd

My great, great, great grandmother was Harriet Stewart Allen who lived at Sydenham Cottage, Watley's End during the mid 19th century.  She lived there with her mother Harriet Ann Maybury (nee Stewart), her aunts Sophia and Elizabeth Stewart and her children Emma, Rosina Maria, Sophia and Eliza Allen.  Harriet Maybury was the daughter of Hester Hollister and grand-daughter of Sydenham Hollister of Winterbourne.

Would love to hear from anyone who knows anything about, or is related to them.             Rosemary Potter

  

Heather Harvey is researching her Pearce Family.

Henry Samuel & Matilda Pearce were farmers  of Winterbourne Down in the 19th Century and had children Henry, Alfred, William 1878, Thomas, Albert, Florence 1876 & Matilda, and possibly other sons Earnest 1880 & Frederick.

Heather would be pleased to hear from anyone else researching this family.

                  Heather Harvey

I would be very pleased if anyone could tell me what happened to Winifred J Teagle (born about 1868 in Hambrook Winterbourne) and Florence Elizabeth Teagle) born about 1872 in Hambrook Winterbourne). Their parents were Henry and Maria Teagle. Henry died in 1936 and Maria (nee Gleed) died in 1892 and are both buried in St Johns the Baptist Church, Frenchay.

            Dot Macadam

  

Susie Davis's great great grandmother was Margaret Emmett, daughter of Catherine Emmett (nee Light).

Susie has more information and a photo she would gladly share with anyone researching the same family.

              Susie Davis
Denise Lewry is researching the Hewitt family of Coalpit Heath and would be pleased to hear from anyone with information. Denise has got back to Henry Hewitt 1821, but has also found a Henry Hewitt of Frampton Cotterell. Help..!   Rose Feltham is researching her Stiddard family of Hambrook and would be pleased to hear from anyone who can help.   [For example - James Stiddard born 1848]

Message for members of the Flook family of Winterbourne Down...  Jean Bony would like to be put in contact with you.

Frederick Austin Adams married Florence Mary Flook 4-10-1905 at Winterbourne Down. Their parents were Charles Adams & Matilda, and John Flook & Marion.  

Also Albert Flook married Ellen Sollis in 1887; their parents were John Flook & Mark Sollis.

Reuben Flook married Mary Ann Edwards in 1869. and on the death of Mary, Reuben married Eliza Maggs in 1892.

Philip Edward Flook married Martha Jeanette Gardiner in 1905.

Can anyone please help Jean with this family, as she is not having any luck and has got stuck..!

  
Les Barber is seeking information or fellow researchers interested in ROBERT TANNER born about 1803 in Frampton Cotterell.
Robert married HARRIET MAGGS  in St Michael's Winterbourne in 1825. Would love to find Robert's baptism details if anyone can help.
 

My ancestor was Jonah Rodman, one of a family of 7 of Thomas and Anne Rodman, Cromhall. Jonah was sent to Van Diemens Land as a convict in 1824. Thomas appears to have moved into the area from neighbouring Hawkesbury around the time of his marriage. I am not closely related to the 'Winterbourne Rodmans', however, I believe that there would have been a connection possibly around Frenchay in the late 1600s or early 1700s. The reason for this is that Jonah was known to have said that his family were QUAKERS and there are a couple of Rodman name Quaker records in the Frenchay area from that era.

Are there any Rodman descendants out there who know if any of their ancestors were Quakers prior to the 1800s?

If so, I would love to hear from you, even though it might not be possible to bridge a connection.

Jonah also spoke of a family connection with the Quakers in Ireland. That is quite probable as a John Rodman went there in 1654 to preach the Gospel on behalf of George Fox, the founder of the faith, and Edmondson. He was arrested in Wexford County for his preaching and eventually returned to the Bristol area. He finished up in Barbados as the faith was not tolerated by the authorities in Ireland and England at the time.

         From Rod, Sydney, 'Down Under'.

Vicki Herbert in New Zealand is searching for descendants of Captain Henry Godfrey Marsh (died 1872) and his wife Joesphine Marguerite of Winterbourne Park. Henry was a trustee of the Perry Almshouses and was a brother of Vicki's great grandfather Captain Octavious Marsh who died in New Zealand where he was sent with the 65th Regiment.

A daughter of Henry G Marsh, Veronica Mathilda married Dr Edward Crossman.

A son, Henry William Marsh, married Mary Ann Millard.

A daughter, Marie Antoinette Perry Marsh married Hugh Powel Davies.

A son, Octavious Edward Bulwer Marsh married Clara Getting.                           Can anyone help?

  

Mike Matthews is seeking anyone who can provide information about a family of Lavers who moved to Hambrook from North Cadbury in the 1890s and subsequently changed their name to Leaver.  The head of the family was Sam Laver.  Sam married Emma Jane Stacey in 1881.  Sam and Emma had nine children – William (1883); Herbert Leslie (1886); Jessie Agnes (1888); Frank John (1890); May (1892); Susie (1894); Amy (1896); Frances (1899), and Cyril Albert Edward (1902). 

Mike is descended from Cyril L(e)aver.

Nigel T is researching Thomas Haynes of Winterbourne, who married Sarah Pearce in Bristol about 1791. Also John Haynes who married Mary Whitten at Winterbourne 7 March 1774.         Nigel would like to hear from anyone researching this family or who knows something about them.

  

Ron Turner is researching his TAMBLYN family. He is looking for any information about his birth mother Gwendoline Rosalind TAMBLYN, born abt Sep 1918 in Bristol or Winterbourne. She gave birth to Ron in March 1941 and Ron was put up for adoption. He would like very much to have contact with any family members, siblings or descendents, in order to learn more about his mother.

For further family information being sought by Ron, follow this link...

John V Addis-Smith is researching William Bawn Addis of Hambrook, and would be grateful for further information.

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Heather Bourne is researching her family and would like to hear from anyone with further information...

Her Great Grandmother was Eliza Tiley, born 1860 in Winterbourne. Eliza's mother was Caroline, died 1861. Eliza's father, George, a coal miner, later married Ruth.

Louise Argent is researching her family history and would love to make contact with descendants of  Herbert Henry SULLIVAN (1890-1952), brother of Louise's great grandmother, Edith Alethea FORD nee SULLIVAN (1879-1956).

Herbert, son of George William SULLIVAN and Amelia Alethea BRADSHAW, was born in Bristol and married Violet Victoria WINTER at Winterbourne in 1915. They had two sons, Lionel George SULLIVAN (1920) & Eric Henry SULLIVAN (1922) and lived at 'The Walnuts', Nicholls Lane, Winterbourne.

Lionel married Marjorie KNAPP, and they had at least one daughter Sally Anne SULLIVAN (1950).

Louise would love to make contact with this family, for family history purposes, and perhaps for a family reunion..!
Adela Turvein, living in Argentina, is researching her Turvein family world-wide. The only member she has found was on this WebSite - J Turvein played cricket for Coalpit Heath and was playing against Frenchay on 21st August 1875. Despite the fact that his score of 18 was the highest of the match, Frenchay still won by 28 runs. Even so, Adela would dearly love to hear from anyone researching this same family.
Chris Mabey is researching the Mabey/Maby families of Winterbourne Down and would like to hear from anyone researching the same families.   Malcolm Williams is researching the Stallard/Stollard family of Winterbourne and would be pleased to share information with anyone researching the same family. See More.

Brian Gilfellon is researching William Henry Robinett, baptized 1848 at Frenchay and living with the Good family at Hambrook in 1851 and 1861. Mother Sarah, father Henry Zorobabel.

Brian would be interested to hear from anyone with further information, or researching the same family.

  

Andrew Plaster is interested in finding out why Unitarian John Owen Williams (1815-1891) was presented with a bible by the Anglican Rev John Carter on Christmas Day 1836.

Can anybody help?

Shannon Williams is researching the HALE, UPTON, PLAYER, OWEN families of Frenchay/Winterbourne area, and would like to make contact with others researching the same families.

Marlene Davies would like to hear from anyone who knows anything about Graham Evans of Winterbourne Down, born 1886; father George, mother Clara; played football for the Winterbourne Down team in 1908.

A visitor to this website asks if anyone is researching the Baylis or Ward families in the Winterbourne area.

Does anyone have information about John Weekes, 1745-1819? Built Rodney Hall, Filton. Ran an express coaching business from Bristol.      A visitor to this site is researching for a book.
Richard Harris would like to hear from anyone researching the Carpenter or Wheeler families in the Winterbourne area.

Lawrence Lowe, now living in Scotland, would like to contact anyone researching the Lowe family in the Winterbourne area.

See Archives/Biographical Notes/Cordy/Lowe for photos.

John Cobbett-Maddy is researching an etching of a 1930s painting of Bristol Cathedral by Ada Maud Parsons.

With help from the Bristol Central Library, John has now established that Ada was born in 1875 and did many paintings of Bristol scenes over a period of 40 years. He wonders if she had some strong connection with Bristol that kept her coming back to do paintings.

Can anyone help?

 Alan Judd would like to learn more about Albert Isaac Smith and his brother Harry Smith, who both played for Frenchay Cricket Club early in the 20th Century.

This message board, created in March 2005, has so far been able to bring together members of ten sets of families - it really does work, folks..!

The most recent success is a visitor in America who has now found an auntie and a cousin in Australia..!