William Morgan of Hinders Lane (General)

by D Morgan , Bristol, Sunday, March 19, 2006, 08:51 (6817 days ago) @ jam1401

Hi Jam 1401
Thanks for your prompt reply.I think that the fact that William Morgan was born in Lea Bailey can be pretty confusing.For a long time I thought that he was born in Herefordshire,but this is not neccessarily the case.I have seen a map at http://www.british-history.ac.uk Which shows a detached portion of Lea Bailey very close to Little Dean and Hinders Lane.Also An extract from British History online states the following,
"In 1835 a majority of commissioners considering a proposal to create

civil parishes for the Forest rejected it, citing among their reasons

difficulties in levying and collecting rates. (fn. 7) In 1842, however,

the main part of the extraparochial area was divided for poor-law

purposes into two townships, that of East Dean being included in the

Westbury-on-Severn union and that of West Dean in the Monmouth union.

(fn. 8) At Cinderford, where new building was mostly on land in East

Dean township, Flaxley parish, and Lea Bailey tithing, three small

extraparochial places on Littledean hill remained outside the poor-law

system until 1869 when they were constituted the parish of Hinder's

Lane and Dockham within the Westbury union. (fn. 9) That parish

disappeared in 1884 when East Dean's boundaries were extended to

include most of the town. (fn. 10) Lea Bailey tithing, where Newland

parish officers had administered relief only intermittently and had

never levied poor rates, relieved its own poor from the late 17th

century. (fn. 11) It came to be regarded as a separate parish and in

1836 became part of the new Herefordshire poor-law union of Ross. (fn.

12) In the 1880s Lea Bailey was dismembered and its constituent parts

added to various adjoining parishes."
This is quite confusing but it does seem to indicate that the parish of Lea Bailey was fragmented and that part of one of the fragments included Hinders Lane.I am not sure if Hinders Lane was part of Lea Bailey in 1813-14 but it was certainly not far away.Perhaps someone with a more detailed knowledge can help us out here.
Denis Morgan