Barbara

This are quite a few trees on Ancestry with the HOLDER family (and a bit confusing).....

Apart from the births I gave before - there is one other, at Owlpen

Thomas- 20 July 1824, parents Robert (Weaver) and Elizabeth

and this family is quoted

1841 Census, Horsley
Washpool

HOLDER

Robert 50 - woollen cloth weaver, wife Elizabeth 45
Thomas - 15, Ann 15, Jefse 14, Charles 12, Eliza 10, Rober 8, George 6, Susannah 3, Richard 2 (too late for your Richard)

this birth is quoted

Robert HOLDER: 25 December 1798 - parents William HOLDER - 1771 and Sarah AYRES - 1760

This is the info on the 'trees'

1851 Census, Stroud, Parliament Street

Robert HOLDER - 50 Porter to a Chemist (this could be the Domestic Servant)
Elizabeth HOLDER - 60 - Laundress - born Wootton Under Edge
Mary HOLDER - unmarried Sister - age 45 - born Rodborough
Elizabeth HOLDER - 24 - born Stroud
Samuel HOLDER - Grandson, age 6, born Horsley
Thomas HOLDER - Grandson, age 4 - Avening
Francis HOLDER - age 3 - born Avening