Ann LONG/Richard & Sarah LONG nee CONSTANT? (General)

by man2 , Newport Pagnell, Bucks, Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 12:35 (4325 days ago) @ man2

Thanks to the Gloucestershire records from m p griffiths, it appears that the origins of Ann Long are as suggested - born in Cheltenham to Richard Long, a farmer, and Sarah Constant, who had been married the previous year in Hempsted, on the outskirts of Gloucester.

The absence of any further children for this couple, and Sarah's return to her family in Newland, can be explained by the burial record for a Richard Long, aged 24, in Boddington (just north of Cheltenham) in 22 January 1819, just before Ann Long was born. There is a corresponding baptism for Richard Long in Boddington in 1794, but I will not persue this line as being outside the scope of this forum.

The Sarah Constant who I previously noted was married in 1813 was born in 1788 in Clearwell, baptised in Newland, and can be found with her husband in later census records. The Sarah Constant who was Ann's mother was born in Ellwood, baptised in Newland in 1798, consistent with census records. Her parents were Joseph Constant and Sarah Garlick, married in 1797 in Frampton on Severn.

Joseph Constant was born in 1757 in Clearwell, baptised in Newland, and died there in 1835. His parents were Israel Constant (1704-1789) and Genevra Worgan (1720-?) who married in Staunton in 1744 (his second marriage). This line has been discussed on RootsWeb on more than one occassion.

Of Sarah Garlick I have found nothing except her burial in 1838 in Newland in 1838 aged 65, but it does appear that there was a Garlick family in Uley, less than 10 miles south of Frampton.

The Constant family were farmers, some of them living in Noxon Farm near Clearwell, and so it is quite likely that they were accustomed to travel beyond the Forest of Dean for markets, rather the more inward-looking life of the miners, which is why they married "outsiders".

Having found the origins of Ann Long, there still remains my problem of what happened to Ann after the birth of my great grandfather, Thomas Nash.

Mike