Charley Constance, Longhope (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Thursday, February 20, 2014, 01:28 (3934 days ago) @ sophiewilliams

Hi Sophie,
does that mean your Charley was Charley Stephen Constance - son of Theophilus H (Harris ?) Constance who I think died abt 1918 ?. Not being nosey, just checking as I see there were a few Theophilus' (sp?) and indeed Charles' through the generations and I like to be sure I'm looking-out for the right people.

Re the Constance family in general, do you know the excellent "New Regard" Journal, published annually by the FoD Local History Society ?. It seems an article abt the Longhope Constances was included in their very first Journal, Volume 1, published 1985. It's details can be found in this index to all the articles; http://79.170.40.163/forestofdeanhistory.org.uk/New%20Regard%20Index%20(Combined)%20vol...
I suspect you've already seen this if you've searched the name on tinternet, as I just have, sorry if stating the obvious. If you're in the Dean area Cinderford and Coleford public libraries appear to have copies, hope this link to their online catalogue works,
http://capitadiscovery.co.uk/gloslibraries/items/380379?query=new+regard&resultsUri...

Alternatively you may be able to order reprints of the article, see their website homepage
http://79.170.40.163/forestofdeanhistory.org.uk/LHSnrprevious.html

Re searching the name on the net, I see another Charles Constance of Longhope was unfortunate enough to be in Westbury workhouse in 1881, I mention this in case you hadn't thought to perform this type of general search - it can be quite surprising how often this can give interesting finds.
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/WestburyOnSevern/Westbury1881.shtml

I also found this handy summary of the Longhope census for 1851; I knew there were a lot of Constances in the village but hadn't recalled there being quite this many ! Compare that to just the one of my line, and a "vurriner" from t'other side of Gloster to boot. Glad he was clearly made welcome and stayed for life despite this "fault" ;-)
http://www.oocities.org/fedgeg/long-records/long51.html
Further reading shows this site carries lots of interesting history about the area, including details of some local families back to the 1500s.

This search also reminds me that the National Archives c/o Gloucester Archives hold records related to James Constance et al, as this link (hopefully) shows
http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=DServeA.ini&dsqApp=Archi...

I'm particularly pleased I've revisited these Archives, as I see they now have the Mill Apprenticeship papers for my GGrampy, now I really MUST visit them !

So, hope this is of interest, THANKS so much for helping with my research too !