GRIFFITHS 1871/1881 Census Mitcheldean (General)

by m p griffiths , Thursday, September 02, 2010, 09:15 (5198 days ago) @ leedean752

1871 Census, Mitcheldean, Plump Hill Road

John GRIFFITHS - age 61, Nailor, born Abinghall
Sophia GRIFFITHS - age 52 - born Abinghall
Thomas GRIFFITHS - unmarried, Son age 23, Nailor, all born Mitcheldean
John Gwynne GRIFFITHS - unmarried, Son, age 19
Elizabeth GRIFFITHS - 13
William GRIFFITHS - 10
Joseph HALFORD, married, age 40, Nailor, born London
Charles SIMMS - unmarried, age 56, Nailor, born Littledean

1881 Census Mitcheldean
Silver Street

John GRIFFITHS - Widow, age 71 - Nail Manufacturer
William GRIFFITHS - son, unmarried age 20 - Nail Maker

? FreeBDM - Death - John GRIFFITHS (age 80) J/F/M Qtr 1890 Westbury S

On the 1891 Census for Middx. Norwood
6 Harewood Terrace

possibly William

William GRIFFITHS - Mar - 31 - Police Constable, born Mitcheldean
Eva F GRIFFITHS - wife - 28 - born Kent, Sheerness

John & Sophia GRIFFITHS (Non-Conformists) Wills are on the Gloucestershire Genealogical Database - dated around 1860 - the Pigots Directory of Mitcheldean 1830 - have Griffiths, Nailmakers in Mitcheldean

www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/familyhistory

which can be sent for (if you haven't these already)

By 1891, Thomas GRIFFITHS was in Silver Street, working as a Nail Maker (next door to the Congregational Chapel) (*been discussions regarding this Chapel on FOD forum - removal of Headstones )

GRIFFITHS

Thomas - 43 - Nail Maker - born Abbenhall
Maria - 36 - born Cinderford
James Henry - 14 - Coal Miner, born Abbenhall
Bessie May - 8 - born Mitcheldean
Thomas G - 6 - ditto
Stanley E - 4 - ditto
John G - 1 - ditto

but by 1901, the family had moved back to Abbenhall - (Bearfields) where Thomas worked as a General Labourer.

You can use Google Maps - Street View, and (click along - viewing) Silver Street, Mitcheldean

Probate Records on Ancestry - 18 February 1868

James GRIFFITHS late of Mitcheldean in the County of Gloucester, Nailer, deceased who died 24 April 1860 at Mitcheldean aforesaid, was proved at the Principal Registry by the Oath of John GRIFFITHS of Plump Hill in the Parish of Mitcheldean, aforesaid Miner, the Brother the Sole Executor - Effects under £20