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Baptism at Awre (notes: Blakeney Chapel)

William VERGOE, parents Thomas & Elizabeth - 1 son of 2 born 18 March - christened 23 March 1788

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1841 Census, Dean Forest
Blakeney, Old Furnace

VIRGO

William - 50 Quarryman - all born in County
Sarah - 55
Benjamin - 15
Mary - 15

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There is a marriage at Newland 13 August 1838, of a Thomas VIRGO - Quarryman - residence: Yorkley, father William VIRGO, Quarryman - marrying an Ann CLARKE - residence Blakeney Hill - father William CLARKE, labourer - mark of William DAVIES and Emma WHITE.
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1851 Cenus, Glos East Dean

14 New Road

VIRGO

William - 63, Quarryman, born Glos East Dean
Sarah - 67 - born East Dean
Joseph MARTIN, Lodger, unmarried, 26, Coalminer, Berkeley

next door

Joseph (transcribed by Ancestry as DAULBEY - 26 - Quarryman Newent - see marriage below
Mary Ann DAULBEY (this is Benjamin's sister) age 26 - born East Dean

few doors away

VIRGO

Benjamin - 27? - Coal Miner, born East Dean
Mary Ann - 25
Julia - 3

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Looking at the 1861 census for Glos East Dean,
Old Furnace Bottom

Thomas VIRGO - 26 Coal Miner, East Dean
Mary Ann - 20
Rosanah CARTER, visitor, 12 - born East Dean

next door

James VIRGO - 27 - Miner born East Dean
Marry WEBB, Lodger, unmarried 38 with her family

then

Sarah YEMM a widr age 38 -born Awre
Henry - 14
Sidney - 3
Thomas SMITH, 36 Lodger

then

William VIRGO, Head - Wdr - 73 - labourer, born East Dean
George YEARSLEY - LODGER, 25 born Awre
William YEMM - 17 - born Awre

next door

DALBY

Joseph - 36 Carter, born Newent
Mary Ann - 36 - born East Dean
William - 9
Joseph - 7
Sarah Ann - 5
Mary Ann - 2

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Marriage at Awre - 24 July 1820

William VIRGOE, Bachelor, Forest of Dean extra Parochial

married

Sarah TIRLEY, Spinster, Forest of Dean extra Parochial

mark of Thomas VIRGO,/Thomas Daniel Clark

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Sister of Benjamin, Mary Ann VIRGO

FOD records
Marriage at Cinderford St John 26 October 1850

Joseph DALBEY, full age, labourer residence: near Blakeney Hill
father: Joseph DALBEY, labourer

married

Mary Ann VIRGO, spinster, residence near Blakeney Hill
father: William VIRGO, labourer

mark of William YEMM and Emma SMART

Thank you for replying to my query. I trawled through the forum after I'd posted my request. I found out who William's parents were which is a great help. I've already transcribed every Virgo that I can find in all of the census' that were born in Gloucestershire. I'm convinced most are connected. However with regard to my own branch the dilemma I've always had is that I don't know who Williams siblings were, if any, hence the problems with connecting to the others. There are plenty that lived nearby who are of the correct age to be brothers of his or cousins etc but I'm at a loss. With regard to the Griffiths's I confess I haven't researched them at all yet.

his parents were William and Sarah Vergoe; with the other Virgo families of that area.

http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=2552

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Ἀριστοτέλης A Gloster Boy in the Forest of Dean ><((((*>

I am doing a piece of local history research for a pamphlet on the confrontation which occurred in the Blakeney area around the 1890s between the authorities and commoners from the area. The story has been briefly told by Chris Fisher C (1981), Custom, Work and Market Capitalism. The Forest of Dean Colliers, 1788-1888. London, Croom Helm

The manner in which the story has been told in the past has not portrayed the commoners involved in a very sympathetic light and as a gang led by Walter Virgo. I would like to correct this. I would argue that their story cannot be understood without placing their actions in the historical context of the struggle for the customary right to common. The characterization of the commoners of Blakeney who took part in these events as a gang is to simply criminalize their actions and motives without placing them in any social or historical context.

I would be very grateful if anyone out there could send me any relevant information. I was brought up in the Forest but now live in Bristol.

My home phone number is 0117 9519174

Thanks

Ian Wright