This really brought home to me, how hard our x grandparents must have worked, to feed and look after, many children year in and year out, without the labour saving devices and resources of today, they must have been worn out. Can understand why some of them took to drink....

Ellen PETERS, Wid - 60, Monthly Nurse, born Elton (back to earlier census returns in Elton)
Bertram PETERS, Grandson, 12, born Littledean
Maud PRITCHARD, Grand-daughter - 8 - born Abergavenney, Monmouthshire
Joseph BRAMFORD - Boarder, Widower, 86, born Littledean

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1911 Census, Church Street. Little Dean

3 rooms

Ellen PETERS, 70 Widow, born Glos. Little Dean
Bertram PETERS, Grandson, 23. General Labourer on Farm, born Little Dean **
Mabel MARTIN, Grand-daughter, 15, single, born Hereford, Ross **

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Bertram (sadly) appears to have died in WW1

Ancestry:

Bertram PETERS
Little Dean
2 May 1918
France & Flanders
Enlistment: Lydney
Private
Glos Regiment
12th (Service) Bristol Battalion
204278
Died of Wounds
Western Europe Theatre

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??

Baptism Ross on Wye

Mabel MARTIN

22 January 1898 - parents Robert (Glass & China Repairer) & Bertha (think this is Ellen's daughter)

Millpond Street

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1901 Glos. Tetbury

MARTIN

Robert - 49 China Rivetter, born London, Middx
Bertha - 33, born Glos. Littledean
Albert - 11 - born Glos. Blakeney
Vernon - 8 -born Glos. Little Dean
Elise - 5 - born Hereford, Ross
Mabel - 3 - born Hereford, Ross

2 September 1847

Thomas PETERS age 50

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If you search the Inquest Section - for attendees

Arthur PETERS was an witness in 1875 - No. 19

Ellen PETERS was a witness in 1878 - No. 180

Arthur PETERS was a Juror in 1880 - No. 324

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1881 Census, Glos. Little Dean, Church Street (full house, but looks like they were running a lodging house - see 1891 census)

Arthur PETERS, 39, Coal Miner, all born Little Dean
Ellen PETERS 34
Bertha PETERS - 12
Alice PETERS - 10
Jane PETERS - 8
Thomas PETERS 5
Charley DAVIS, Lodger, 30, Labourer (Tramp) born Birmingham
Wm SMITH - 30 Hawker, born London
Eliza SMITH - 39
Allan JACOBS, 40 (labourer) born Bristol
Wm HAWKER - 33 - born Gloucester
Jane HAWKER - 33
Thomas EVEREDGE - 24 - labourer unemployed, born Clearwell

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1891 Census, Church Street

Ellen PETERS, (Wid) - 48 Lodging House Keeper, born Glos. Popes Hill
Tom - 14
+ the lodgers

PETERS - mother's maiden name VAUGHAN

Charles - 1838, Westbury on Severn, Newnham

Amelia - 1840 - ditto - FOD records - 23 December 1840

Arthur - 1844 - ditto - FOD records - 5 January 1845, Littledean, Thomas (Wheelwright) & Sarah

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FOD records - Marriage at Newent - 4 November 1828

Thomas PETERS, Bachelor, Newent
married

Sarah VAUGHAN, residence: Ledbury (Hereford)

witnesses: Thomas BUNDY, Maria SPIERS, Thos BARON

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Arthur & Ellen PETERS are in Silver Street 1871 census (in previous reply)

Here is the family in 1841 census, Silver Street, Glos. Little Dean

PETERS

Thomas - 40 - Wheelwright - all born in County
Sarah - 35
William - 9
Charles - 2
Sarah - 10
Amelia - 6 months

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By 1851 Census, Sarah is a Widow (I think)

Silver Street, Little Dean

PETERS

Sarah - W - 46, Nurse, born Red Marley
Sarah - 21 - Drefsmaker, born Newent
Charles -13 - Errand Boy, born Little Dean
Arthur - 7 - Scholar, born Little Dean
Henry BULLOCK, Lodger, - 20 , Rail Lab. born Wilts Devizes
Charles WILLIAMS - 24 - ditto, born Cresswell
Henry PETERS, Grandson, 5 months, at home, born Little Dean

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On the 1861 census, Arthur is living with his brother and his family in Monmouthshire

Trevethin, Upper George Street

William PETERS, 27 - born Glos. Little Dean
Harriet - 29 - born , Mon. Pantangue?
Sarah Ann - 6 - born Pontypool
Thomas - 4
Charles - 2
John ? months
Arthur PETERS, brother - 17 - miner in iron works, born Glos Little Dean

Boadoak

FERRIS

Thomas - 51, Labourer, born Newnham
Mary A - 42 - born Westbury
Ellen E - 14
Thomas - 10
Eliza J - 8
James B - 6
Belinda - 4
Elizabeth HANCOCKS, mother-in-law - 74

1851 Census, Glos. Westbury on Severn (Elton)
(in previous reply)

1841 Census
Broad Oak (sub reg. HUNTLEY)

(difficult to know whether there is an S at the end of the name- and some ages a bit difficult to read)

William HANCOCK - 50 Waterman
Elizabeth - 50
Elizabeth - 20
Mary - 20
James - 15
Thomas BRAFSINGTON - 60 Waterman

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FOD records

Marriage at Westbury on Severn - 13 July 1812

William HANCOCK - Batchelor, otp (Westbury)

married

Elizabeth BRASSINGTON, Spinster, otp (Westbury)

Banns

No. 100 June 7th

He signs - She Marks

Witness

Thomas BRASSINGTON

Ann POWELLS

other Witness: Anthony BENNETT

Officiating Minster: Richard WETHERELL (Vicar)

Gloucestershire BDM - have the surname as FERRIES

Arthur PETERS married Ellen FERRIES - Westbury on Severn Register Office 1868

http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/bmd/

1871 Census, Silver Street, Littledean

Arthur PETERS - 26, Collier, Littledean
Ellen - 28, born Westbury, Glos
Bertha - 2 - born Newland
Alice - 1 month - born Littledean

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FOD records

Baptism at Westbury on Severn - 16 August 1846

Ellen Elizabeth FERRIS, parents Thomas (Labourer) & Mary Ann

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Gloucestershire BDM - FERRIS- Mother's Maiden Name HANCOCKS

Gloucester - Huntley

Ellen Elizabeth - 1846

Thomas - 1850

Eliza Jane - 1853

James Brazington - 1854

Belinda - 1856

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1851 Census, Westbury on Severn

Elton Tythings

Thomas BRAFSINGTON - Head, unmarried, 72, Waterman, born Glos.a Westbury on Severn
Elizabet HANCOCKS - daughter law - age 64 Servant, born Glos. Westbury
Thomas FERRIS, son-in-law - mar - 42 - born Newham
Mary Anne FERRIS, mari - 33 - born Westbury
Ellen E FERRIS - daughter - 5 - born Westbury
Charles FERRIS - 2 - born Westbury
Thomas FERRIS, son - 7 months, born Westbury
Joseph SLATTER, visitor, 20 - Railway labourer, born Shipton on Sever