NAILERS - Gwilliam, Littledean (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Friday, June 27, 2014, 14:09 (3803 days ago) @ MPGriffiths

Hi MPG,
good stuff, all very interesting. A complete guess for now but I wonder if their nailmaking trade was suffering due, perhaps, to cheeper mass-produced nails being available from elsewhere, so causing the Gwilliams to fall into difficult times and even gaol ?.

The Gwilliam family don't appear to have been covered in depth in prior threads, so for starters we can find (there are 225 Gwilliam PRs in Littldean alone);

Record_ID: 32283
Entry_Number: 648
Year: 1832
Month: Mar
Day: 29
Parents_Surname: GWILLIAM
Child_Forenames: James
Fathers_Forenames: Alexander
Mothers_Forenames: Ann
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: L[ittle] Dean
Occupation: Nailor
Officiating_Minister: J Parsons Curate
Event: Baptism
Memoranda: Son 2 years of age
Notes:
Register_Reference: P110 IN 1/5
Page_Number: 81
Parish_Chapel: Littledean
Soundex: G450

James' siblings, father is a nailer for all case;
Year Surname First Name Fathers Forename Mothers Forename Event Parish/Chapel More detail
1822 GWILLIAM Elizabeth, Alexander & Ann, Baptism Drybrook More detail
1822 GWILLIAM Caroline, Alexander & Anne, Baptism Littledean More detail
1826 GWILLIAM Albina, Alexander & Ann, Baptism Littledean More detail
1826 GWILLIAM Ann, Alexander & Ann, Baptism Littledean More detail

Record_ID: 185078
Entry_Number:
Year: 1791
Month: Mar
Day: 20
Parents_Surname: GWILLIAM
Child_Forenames: Alexander
Fathers_Forenames: John
Mothers_Forenames: Martha
Mothers_Surname:
Residence:
Occupation:
Officiating_Minister: Wm Fryer Minister
Event: Baptism
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P110 IN 1/4
Page_Number: 4
Parish_Chapel: Littledean
Soundex: G450

Record_ID: 19408
Entry_Number: 649
Year: 1872
Month: Mar
Day: 15
Surname: GWILLIAM
Forenames: Alexander
Residence: Westbury on Severn
Age_at_death: 87
Officiating_Minister: William Lockett
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P110 IN 1/12
Page_No: 82
Parish_Chapel: Littledean
Soundex: G450

(May not be the same Alexander ?)
Cannot find his marriage in PRs.

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Also in Littledean, perhaps different branch of the same family business ?

Record_ID: 32110
Entry_Number: 475
Year: 1827
Month: May
Day: 2
Parents_Surname: GWILLIAM
Child_Forenames: James
Fathers_Forenames: Daniel
Mothers_Forenames: Mary
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: L[ittle] Dean
Occupation: Nailor
Officiating_Minister: J D Ostrehan Curate
Event: Baptism
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P110 IN 1/5
Page_Number: 60
Parish_Chapel: Littledean
Soundex: G450

Record_ID: 19855
Entry_Number: 296
Year: 1908
Month: Mar
Day: 4
Surname: GWILLIAM
Forenames: James
Residence: Little Dean
Age_at_death: 77
Officiating_Minister: Robert Bruce
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda: Died 29 Feb 1908; occupation Green Grocer
Notes: No. of Grave 128
Register_Reference: P110 IN 1/13
Page_No:
Parish_Chapel: Littledean
Soundex: G450

So born abt 1831, but which James ?. (Love the Minister's name!)

Year Parents_Surname Child_Forenames Fathers_Forenames Mothers_Forenames Mothers_Surname Residence Occupation Parish_Chapel
1827 GWILLIAM James, Daniel & Mary, L[ittle] Dean Nailor Littledean
1831 GWILLIAM Daniel Hoskins, Daniel & Mary, Gloucester Nailor Littledean

Record_ID: 116737
Entry_Number: 398
Year: 1825
Month: Jul
Day: 23
Grooms_Surname: GWILLIAM
Grooms_Forenames: Daniel
Grooms_Age:
Groom_Condition:
Grooms_Occupation:
Grooms_Residence: of this parish
Grooms_Fathers_Surname:
Grooms_Fathers_Forenames:
Grooms_Fathers_Occupation:
Brides_Surname: WILLIAMS
Brides_Forenames: Mary Ann
Brides_Age:
Brides_Condition:
Brides_Occupation:
Brides_Residence: of this parish
Brides_Fathers_Surname:
Brides_Fathers_Forenames:
Brides_Fathers_Occupation:
Licence_or_Banns: Banns
Date_of_Banns:
Signature_or_Mark: He signs she marks
Witness_1: James Wheeler
Witness_2: Eliza Gwilliam
Other_Witnesses:
Officiating_Minister: John Edmund Jones Curate
Event: Marriage
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P154/15 IN 1/12
Page_Number: 133
Parish_Chapel: Gloucester St Nicholas
Soundex_Groom: G450

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