William Thomas Jackson b 1864 Westbury on Severn (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Tuesday, December 02, 2014, 21:12 (3644 days ago) @ shepway

Hi, welcome to the forum.
Just in case you've not already seen this paragraph from the Westbury entry within the excellent British History website;

"The demand for fruit-baskets and putchers for fishing made basket-making another local trade. Several persh (or osier) beds recorded in 1839 were presumably connected with the trade, and there was a basket-maker at Rodley in 1856. The Jacksons followed the trade at the Strand from the 1890s and later at Broadoak where one of the family still made baskets and putchers in 1969; another maker specialized in fruit-baskets in the early 20th century. A sieve-maker was recorded at Elton in 1608."

From: 'Westbury-on-Severn: Economic history', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 10: Westbury and Whitstone Hundreds (1972), pp. 93-97.
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=15767
Date accessed: 02 December 2014.

You may also find this website of interest re Westbury.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/GLS/WestburyonSevern/index.html
hence
http://www.rebus.demon.co.uk/wos_br.htm