Walter VIRGO - Census information etc (General)

by m p griffiths , Monday, April 23, 2012, 17:40 (4600 days ago) @ ian wright

???? if this is the correct Walter

- By Googling Walter VIRGO (trying to do the link!) - the information can be read for members on Google Books: Custom, work and market capitalism the forest of dean colliers....

Looking at the article - the family had a bad reputation - and had been charged with sheep stealing.

Ancestry - Criminal Records -

Walter VIRGO - date of trial - 20 October 1863 - Gloucestershire - Not guilty
Walter VIRGO - date of trial - 29 June 1880 - imprisonment - 6 months
Walter VIRGO - date of trial - 3 July 1889 - Not guilty

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FOD records

Burial at Newnham and Blakeney Tabernacle

Walter VIRGO - age 59
Cause of death: Consumpt

Memoranda: died Aug 23 - Farmer - buried at Tabernacle

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by 1901, Walter had become a Farmer

1901 Census, East Dean
Blakeney Hill, East Dean - District 23

VIRGO

Walter - 56 - Farmer - own account
Catherine - 53 - born Staffs Hanley
Walter - grandson - 9
Howard - grandson - 6

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1881 Census, Westbury on Severn East Dean - District 23

The nineteenth remaining part of the Township of East Dean. Commencing at Isaac Wood's Houses Brains Green is Bounded on the West and North West by Blakeney Hill Enclosure to a point where William James' house stands, Including the same on the South West by road leading from the Said William James' house in front of Harriet Virgo's house to the Turnpike road immediately at the Back of Joseph Virgo's House - On the West by Turnpike Road to the Turnpike House and on the South East by the Parish of Awre to William Wood's house in Brains Green.

This includes the Ridge part of Brains Green. Part of Blakeney Hill, Loiter Inn? and Giberalter

VIRGO

Walter - 35 Coal Miner, born Blakeney
Elizabeth - 35 - born Lincolnshire, Ekington
John - 15 - all born East Dean
Ann - 12
Charles - 10
Moses - 8
Aaron - 5
Albert - 3
Mary - 1

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1881 Census Gloucester East Dean - District 23

(it would seem Elizabeth his wife had died - and he had remarried Catherine VIRGO - Widow - 21 December 1889, Viney Hill)

VIRGO

Walter - 46 - Coal Miner, born Parish of Awre
Catherine - 46 - born Hanley, Staffordshire
Charles - 18 - Coal Miner
Aaron - 16 - Shepherd
Albert - 12 - Scholar
Mary - 10
Walter - 8