Jeremiah Davis baptism Pauntley 1820 - 1821 (General)
by mikedavies , Huddersfield, Monday, August 20, 2012, 09:13 (4474 days ago)
According to FOD records, there are two Jeremiah Davis' baptised in Pauntley to parents George and Ann. The first is 5.11.1820 and the second being 18.2.1821. I am presuming that "my" Jeremiah is the first one listed because the residence is "at the tower in the wood", which is the same as his younger brother Josia baptised 30.4.1823. The location sounds grand but unlikely as George was a labourer.
Two questions: Could Jeremiah have been baptised twice, and where or what was the Tower in the Wood?
Any suggestions?
Mike
Jeremiah Davis - Two Baptism Entries + Tower House
by m p griffiths , Monday, August 20, 2012, 10:13 (4474 days ago) @ mikedavies
previous threads on two baptism entries
http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=26248
and DAVIS family thread
http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?mode=thread&id=20278
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1841 Census, Pauntley District 15
Description of Enumeration District: (transcribed as best as possible!)
All that part of the Parish of Pauntley commencing at the Tower Colin Park keeping the road to Brane Green follow the boundary of the Parish of Pool hile Hill keeping the boundary of the Parish round Aylemores to Kelford Bridge on down the river Leden to Everas Bridge and back up the Tower being the whole of Pauntley Parish with the exception of the Detached Part.
first entry on page 1
Tower House (**hence the entry - at the Tower in the Wood)
DAVIS
George - 40
Ann - 40
Isiah - 17
Sarah - 12
Benjamin - 7
Elizabeth - 6
Paul - 3
next house
Hood House then Bran Green
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On the 1851 census, Charles JONES age 29 and wife Elizabeth are living at Tower House (District 14)
'The whole of the Parish of Pauntley, with the exception of the detached part, including Colin Park etc...'
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1861 Census - Pauntley - first page/entry
Colin Park - Tower House - Mark BALL?
next door, Wood House, then Bran Green
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1871 Census, Pauntley - District 19
First entry on page 1
Colin Park
Tower House - James & Catherine LEWIS - Ag. Lab + family
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1881 Census, Pauntley, District 19
First Entry
Tower House - Reuben ALLEN - Ag La and his family
next house is Wood House
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1891 Census, Pauntley
Reuben ALLEN, (Butcher) wife Louisa + family are still at the Tower House - Wood House next door
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1901 Census, Pauntley
Tower House - first again
Robert ENGLAND (well sinker) - wife Florence + family
next houses:
Wood House
Bran Green
Pauntley Court
Payford
Payford Mill
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On the 1911 Census - Rueben ALLEN is back at Tower House, Pauntley, Newent (4 rooms) + his family
houses next door etc
Wood House
Bran Green
White House - with Major Thackwell
Church
Pauntley Court (birthplace of Dick WHITTINGTON)
Payford Mill
Ivy Cottage
Hill Field
Pool Hill + with a number of houses
Chapel (Wesley)
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Now Collinpark - Pauntley
Is on Wikipedia -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
(search for Collinpark Wood) **
part of the Pauntley Estate, - 164.8 acres, ... biological site of special scientific interest....
Tower House/Tower In the Wood, Pauntley area
by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Monday, August 20, 2012, 16:44 (4473 days ago) @ m p griffiths
Having extensively searched the internet and the various old map sites it seems this area is badly served, I can find very little indeed re Pauntley, even the Maps sites dont find it via their own search engines !. It's not yet covered within the excellent British History series site, and unfortunately my hardcopy of the relevant volume 12 "Newent & May Hill" is at my mother's, grrr. Annoying, as I genuinely would like to discover more about Pauntley Court etc etc.
Anyhow having scoured the Old Maps site around Collinpark Wood (just South of Pountley Court) I only find one possible reference to a local Tower which MIGHT be relevant, sadly their earliest map is only 1889 so hundreds of years after Pauntley Court was at its peak so perhaps years after the aforementioned "Old Tower" ( a folley, a watchtower (wrt hunting in the Park ??) had fallen into disrepair..
If you visit http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html and enter the following co-ordinates into the two boxes, 375820 and 227926. After the partial map loads then open the "1889 Worcestershire(part) 1:10,560" Map from the righthand menu.
On the resultant partial map, to the left/west of the Woods is Brands Green. Due east of this and on t'other side of the Woods is a word which I think is "Towers", hopefully in centre of map image. You may wish to tweak your pc screen enlargement so the image fills the screen; can still click the spyglass to further enlarge without loss of image clarity.
Admittingly not "in the Woods, but maybe this related to "thro the Woods" if coming from Brands Green, White House and the other more populated area west of the woods.
??
In very old times all this area was, I think, part of the Pauntley Estate.
Later maps on this site don't show this text, presumably what ruins MAY have been there in 1889 were soon taken away for recycling into newer houses as was the norm ?
One article I found that has a photo of Pauntley Court and is an interesting read abt Dick Whittington, born at Pauntley 1354.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2076060/Dick-Whittingtons-road-riches-Followi...
Clearly Pauntley was a grand and more important estate in those days compared to the 1800s.
Hope this helps, if anyone can find some good website articles abt Pauntley then I'd love to read them, please.
PAUNTLEY
by m p griffiths , Monday, August 20, 2012, 18:56 (4473 days ago) @ Jefff
'if anyone can find some good website abt Pauntley, then I'd love to read them'
20th century history
It would appear that Pauntley COURT was in WW2 (1943) - a school and home for French and Belgium Refugees (quite a few Imperial War Museum Office photographs on the 'net')
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For info on past residents:
On FOD there are PDF file - Pauntley Memorial Inscriptions -
http://www.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?Memorial_Inscriptions_Pauntley&Print
and
Pauntley War Memorial
PAUNTLEY
by gprotheroe , Monday, August 27, 2012, 16:06 (4466 days ago) @ m p griffiths
You may be interested in the excellent history of Pool Hill by Eric Warde, which contains a deal of information about the parish of Pauntley, entitled "They Didn't Walk Far". I know that there is a copy in Newent Library.
G. Protheroe
Jeremiah Davis - Two Baptism Entries + Tower House
by mikedavies , Huddersfield, Monday, August 20, 2012, 20:44 (4473 days ago) @ m p griffiths
Thanks for pointing this out. I couldn't see the wood for the trees! Jeremiah was one of 7, (and the brother of Paul, my direct descendent). I therefore have copies of a lot of census entries in and around Pauntley, but I'd not really noticed the links between all of the house names. I'll now go through these in detail.