Useful background on Lydney around that time on

Genuki Full Contents Gloucestershire

http://www.genuki.org.uk/contents/GLScontents.shtml

Click on the box: Gloucesteshire (GLS) Parish List

Click on L for Lydney

Click on Lydney

Includes : Extract from Kelly's Directory of Gloucestershire 1861 - Lydney

Another reason for families dispersing around the Country and Worldwide (as in many cases in my family tree ) was the GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY (God's Wonderful Railway)

http://mikes.railhistory.railfan.net/r010.html

Lydney Junction opened in 1851