Thankyou both for your continuing work for all of us.......your doing a great job

where have I been....good question...easily distracted comes to mind!

Updates are now recorded..........ongoing ongoing with my paternal Gypsy side

Also on my paternal side......it appears I should have been a Penn and not a Powell, then again the Penn shouldn't have been a Penn!, that appears to be what Forest life was all about for working class families in the 19th century..........and I thought my "Powell" side was neat and tidy or cut & dried! how wrong can you be...........

was updated as well whilst you were off line

I have been out of commission for a few weeks............computer went wrong and then I spent a week in hospital....and now my daughter is in there with a bad back (prolapsed disc) and she has 12 week old twins which need looking after (i'm feeling really old)....anyway, went out this week and bought myself a new computer and am setting it up as I write.

Thankyou for your time and trouble in looking up my family in the records, it's much appreciated. I will have to have another look at your findings as i'm not sure what part of my anatomy i'm sitting on at the moment!

Richard

I only had time to look up 2 of the 4 because the filming for the Transcription Project had to take priority today.

The information I gleaned is noted below. The books are now only available on microfilm! which is a pity because it takes so much longer to find the entries and I couldn't get a whole page at once on the readers. It would be good to know what the entries are for (e.g. Church ?) Perhaps you could email Gloucester Archives and enquire about photocopies. If I had the time I would do it for you, but lets see what they charge for now.

Eli Fletcher / N F Residence / Hawker / Age 27 / 5'4" / brown hair / brown eyes / oval visage / fresh complexion / Other marks - Scar on back of neck, bridge of nose + on right thigh. Lost one [illegible] front tooth.
Prisoner No 7729 / Stealing one horse the property of James Halford at St. Briavels on 4/7/1874. / C J Palmer Esq. / Assises 1 / 8 Aug 1874 Summer / Acquitted of Horse Stealing 1874 Aug 11 / Church / Mar 3 East Dean Known to PC Martin 5 years nothing else [illegible] - Wife Sarah Fletcher Cinderford Hill Woodside Glos.

Daniel Butler / No fixed Residence / Tinker / Age 20 / 5'8" / brown hair / Light grey eyes / fresh complexion / other marks - 2 burn scars on l forearm + 1 on l Knee. Mole on L shoulder blade, 1 left side of Neck. / Prisoner No 180 / Stealing at Little Rissington 28 pounds weight of straw, property of William Cary Smith / Rev E F Witts R N Byass Esq P Thursby Esq / Assises Q 18.3.1871 / Guilty / 1 days Hard Labour 1877 Mar 21 Term Expired / Church / Single Nat Bicester Known to P Constable of Bourton. Has been [illegible] for encamping out on highway Address of friends N/K Gipsies

Hope this helps you a bit. Good luck with your research

May

I received a reply which said something like........if I get the opportunity I will have a look Monday after the Photographic meeting? and you would let me know Tuesday.....no promises
Well.......if I wasn't a dream that would be magic, and if it isn't now possible it was still great that you thought of me

Thanks
Richard

I now have ages and commital dates........thankyou for that

Unfortunately I live 14 miles from Southend-on-Sea, I was going to go down the paying route and I composed a nice request on what was required and how do I go about it..........only for the Glos gov website to inform me the site was playing up and my request went into that blackhole never to be seen again!

Richard

Q/Gc/6/7 Matthew Butler Committal 30/11/1878 aged 29 Mitcheldean Tinker
Q/Gc/6/7 Leanable Butler Committal 30/11/1878 aged 26 Gloucester Hawker
Q/Gc/6/6 Daniel Butler Committal 27/1/1877 aged 20 Bicester Tinker
Q/Gc/6/6 Eli Fletcher Committal 15/7/1874 aged 27 East Dean Hawker

A search for these reference numbers on Gloucestershire Archives Online Catalogue shows the "Registers of Prisoners" and "Visiting Justices Journals are on open shelves. Can you get there to see what extra information there might be?

either way its probably pay per view time

http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/genealogy/Results.aspx

Looking for the dastardly criminal act of why these people were in Gaol/Jail

1878........MATTHEW BUTLER Mitcheldean Q/Gc 6/7 tinker167 Gaol
1878........LEANABLE BUTLER Gloucester Q/Gc 6/7 hawker167 Gaol

1877........DANIEL BUTLER Bicester Q/Gc 6/6 tinker 266 Gaol

1874........ELI FLETCHER East Dean Q/Gc 6/6 hawker Gaol

Bryant.........gypsy blood getting redder by the day