Constance family (General)

by MPGriffiths , Friday, October 27, 2017, 10:50 (2585 days ago) @ MPGriffiths

Men in Armour for Gloucestershire 1608

www.coaley.net

Just by putting COW in the surname search shows up many variations

COWSTANCE
COWLSTANCE
COWLSTON
COWLSTONE

etc

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Checking on the National Archives for James CONSTANCE Longhope

Gloucestershire Archives - holds many records (76 files)

Documents deposited by James CONSTABLE and Sons Ltd, saw mills and turnery works, LONGHOPE GL17 OLB

Administrative/biographical background :

The business is reputed to have been started by James CONSTANCE in a room of a house in Longhope, with the manufacture of carrels and coffins c.1720.

A frames' son Theophilus established proper in 1788, naming it after his father. The coming of the railway enabled the business to expand. From producing handles for agricultural implements locally, they began to provide every type of handle for the manufacturing trade in Sheffield and the business went from strength to strength.

It has been in the hands of the ALLAN family since c 1935 and it is still a going concern today involved, as a woodland owner, in coppicing; the old buildings form an industrial estate which the company lets as business units. (Information supplied by Mr C John ALLAN).

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Theophilus CONSTANCE c1760 death: 1847 (Will on Ancestry)

Mentions, his wife Mary, Nephew: John CONSTANCE, Longhope, Boot & Shoe Maker) + his 9 children.

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1841 Census Longhope

John CONSTANCE - aged 60 - Shoemaker (this is the Nephew of Theophilus)
Hannah CONSTANCE - 60
Amos CONSTANCE - 20

1841 Census Upper Longhope

Theophilus CONSTANCE - 75 - Head Turner (born in County)
Mary CONSTANCE - 75 - born in County

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From the Gloucestershire Marriage Allegations Records (on this site)

30 August 1788

Theophilus CONSTANT - aged 23 c1765 ? or could be be 28 (c1760) **

Batchelor, Rake Maker of Longhope

Mary DAWES aged 23, Spinster, of English Bicknor

Marriage by Licence

Swodn before Thos RUDGE to marry at English Bicknor

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??? as JAMES can also be JOHN

Baptism at Tibberton

14 October 1760

Theophilus CONSTANT, parents: John & Mary

As his death 30 November 1847 - gives his age at 86 (c1761)