Long Sleeve Cottage, Oldcroft (General)
From Peter & Gillian Simm
Trying to locate Long Sleeve Cottage Oldcroft.
Gillians mother was born 19 05 1913 in Oldcroft, we have been told it was in
Long Sleeve Cottage . We have tried local ordnance survey maps but no luck.
Any help or information would be appreciated.
Peter Simm.
Long Sleeve Cottage, Oldcroft
by m p griffiths 
, Monday, June 07, 2010, 13:57 (5361 days ago) @ PETER SIMM
Oldcroft - Lydney
There are only 37 people on the 1901 census, born in Oldcroft - and of these 23 are scattered around Gloucestershire (so a small area)
The Surname of your wife's mother may help, as Cottages are not always listed on census returns. The family may/or may not have been there on earlier census returns.
Long Sleeve Cottage, Oldcroft
Thanks for replying so quickly, mams name was Eilleen Marion May Kear
fathers name was Tom Kear mothers name was Emily Susan. Mams d. o. b. was
19 05 1913, she was baptised at Pillowell Methodist Church on the 3 07 1913.
KEAR/CHARLES/BUCK/HUGHES
by m p griffiths , Monday, June 07, 2010, 16:03 (5360 days ago) @ PETER SIMM
FreeBDM
Birth Registered, June Qtr 1913 Monmouth
Eileen M E KEAR - mother's maiden name CHARLES
Eileen Marian May KEAR
Tom (Collier) & Emily Susan - address Oldcroft
FOD records
Marriage 28 March 1910
Tom KEAR (Bachelor) age 29, c1881 Collier, address Oldcroft
Father: Tom KEAR, General Dealer
married
Emma Susan CHARLES, age 16, c1885- address: Oldcroft
Father: Amos CHARLES, Collier
witnesses: Joseph CHARLES, Ellen CHARLES
A full print-out of the 1911 census for Tom & Emily KEAR, would hopefully give the address where they were living.
This is the 1901 census, for Monmouthshire, West Dean, District 10
No names given of any Cottages
Oldcroft starts on Page 8 (KEAR are on page 17 - Yorkley Slade starts on Page 21 - total 28 pages)
Enumerator's notes: Starting at Mosley Green, Old Pikehouse, How Beach, Danby Lodge, Tomlin (Lodge),Viney Hill, OLDCROFT, Yorkley Slade, The Bailey Hill to Lydney Road to Newland Boundary
KEAR
Tom - age 58, Market Gardener, own account, born Oldcroft, Glos
Sarah - age 57, born Lydney
Alice - age 21, born West Dean
Tom - age 20, Collier Labourer, born ditto
John H? KEAR - age 16
Horice - age 1
FOD records Thomas KEAR (Widower) m Sarah HUGHES (Spinster) 8 July 1866, Lydney
Thomas & Sarah + family on the 1871 census were in Lancashire- but back in Oldcroft 1881/1891
CHARLES family (same District - on Page 13)
Amos - 43, Coalminer, born West Dean
Martha A - 37 - born East Dean
Sarah - 18 - all born West Dean
Jasper -16
Rowland W- 13
Emma Susan - 8
Elen M - 5
Percy H -
FOD records: Amos CHARLES age 25, married Martha Julia Agnes BUCK - age 17
24 December 1881, Viney Hill