Forest of Dean FHT Forum - PRIEST Family Lydbrook

PRIEST Family Lydbrook (reply)

priest — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:49:27 +0000

Rita,
What a kind thought! I think that we will actually beat you to it as we have a trip planned for the first week of April so we might be able to do some searching for you!.
I shall e mail you directly with more details.
Best wishes,
Alison

PRIEST Family Lydbrook (reply)

ritpetite — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:33:30 +0000

Hello
I am going to be visiting Lydbrook and I could try and look for any gravestones you wish.

My family of James are buried there and apparently there is a priest connection somewhere along the line.

I arrive in england on the 10th March but wont be going to Lydbrook for a month or two.

Let me know if you need any help.

Rita James
New Zealand

Update: Eveline Evangelina Priest (reply)

slowhands — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:35:33 +0000

Thanks for the update.

Update: successful search for Eveline Evangelina Priest (reply)

priest — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:02:34 +0000

On the 28th November, 2007 I posted a search for Eveline Evangelina Priest on the forum and received numerous replies and valuable advice from many. Eveline was my husband's grandmother about whom the family knew nothing as her son was adopted at an early age.
After much searching we now have traced many living relatives and even have the most wonderful photograph of her. Not only have we found Eveline but we now also have an enormous 'forest family' to keep us occupied for a very longtime!
None of this would have been possible without this wonderful site and people willing to help out and I thank you all so much. What we have found out with help from so many is beyond our wildest dreams and has now got me well and truly hooked.
Thank you all!
Alison

John PRIEST 1837 Newland +family pt2 (reply)

gwrmad — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:51:15 +0000

Hi working through my tree and the parish records I believe Williams 1st marriage was to Betsy Philips at Hewelsfield on 8/10/1831 and his brother Amos & sister Eliza were witnesses-more to follow as available.

John PRIEST 1837 Newland +family pt2 (reply)

gwrmad — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:44:57 +0000

Yes thanks indeed thought my reasoning had gone when I saw that at the start!My relationship is through Williams sister Eliza 1812-1880 through her marriage to William Kear I had visions of having to add the Triggs & Marfell families to my tree!I've enough troubles with the Kears & Morgans !Regards

John PRIEST 1837 Newland +family pt2 (reply)

slowhands — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:33:06 +0000

Thanks Mike

Hannah is proving difficult to spot - but she appears to have surfaced by chance in 1881 :-)

John PRIEST 1837 Newland +family pt2 (reply)

shepway — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:19:32 +0000

William PRIEST, widower who married Mary HARRIS is not William who married Hannah CULLIS. This is William and Hannah in 1851:
Piece Folio SchNo Town Surname Forename Relatn Marr Age Occupation County Place
2444 0237 067 Breams Eaves PREIST William HD M 52 Labourer GLS West Dean
2444 0237 067 Breams Eaves PREIST Annah WI M 42 - GLS Newland
2444 0237 067 Breams Eaves PREIST Tabitha DA U 15 - GLS West Dean
2444 0237 067 Breams Eaves PREIST Zacharias SO - 10 - GLS West Dean
2444 0237 067 Breams Eaves PREIST Thomas SO - 7 - GLS West Dean

Mike

Eva Evangelina PRIEST 7/11/1885 Lydbrook ( Methodist recs) (reply)

slowhands — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:10:59 +0000

......feedback positive and negative is always good to hear - good luck

Eva Evangelina PRIEST 7/11/1885 Lydbrook ( Methodist recs) (reply)

priest — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:37:44 +0000

Many thanks for taking the trouble to reply in such great detail re the Priest family!
I am particularly pleased that you found Eveline's baptism notice and also the possible marriage. Thank you so much, it has given us much to do! I will try to let you know positive results if and when we find them.
All very new to us as we only started searching very recently and we have found out so much in such a little time!
Thanks again,
Alison Priest

PRIEST Family Lydbrook (reply)

priest — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:32:40 +0000

Philip,

Many thanks for suggestion re Salvation Army connection, will look into it.

Alison Priest

Louisa TRIGG (nee PRIEST) 1828 Parkend (reply)

slowhands — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:58:47 +0000

1851
Louise Priest abt 1829 Gloucestershire, England Servant St Pancras Middlesex

Year 1861
Month Oct
Day 26

Groom Surname TRIGG
Groom Forename(s) John
Groom Age at Marriage 31
Groom condition Bachelor
Groom Rank or Profession Collier
Groom Residence Moseley Green
Groom Father's Surname Trigg
Groom Father's Forename(s) Benjamin
Groom Father's Rank or Profession Collier

Bride Surname PRIEST
Bride Forename(s) Louisa
Bride Age at Marriage 32
Bride Condition Spinster
Bride Rank or Profession [not stated]
Bride Residence Breems Eaves
Bride Father's Surname Priest
Bride Father's Forename(s) William
Bride Father's Rank or Profession Collier

Licence or Banns Licence
Date of banns
Signature or Mark both sign
Witness 1 Ann Gunter
Witness 2 Henry Gunter
Other witnesses
Officiating Minister [illegible] Ebsworth
Event type Marriage
Memoranda Incumbent
Transcriber's Notes
Register Reference P145 IN 1/20
Page No 243
Parish/Chapel Parkend

1871
John Trigg abt 1831 East Dean, Gloucestershire, England Head West Dean Gloucestershire
Luisa Trigg abt 1830 West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Wife West Dean Gloucestershire
Anna Trigg abt 1868 West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Daughter West Dean Gloucestershire
Jemima M Trigg abt 1863 West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Daughter West Dean Gloucestershire

1881
John Trigg abt 1831 Wilpool, Gloucestershire, England Head West Dean Gloucestershire
Louisa Trigg abt 1829 Bream, Gloucestershire, England Wife West Dean Gloucestershire
Jemima Trigg abt 1863 Mosley Green, Gloucestershire, England Daughter West Dean Gloucestershire
Lucy L. Trigg abt 1873 Bream Eaves, Gloucestershire, England Daughter West Dean Gloucestershire

1881 nearby ?
Hannah Preest abt 1808 Clearwell, Gloucestershire, England Head West Dean Gloucestershire

links to John s/o Benjamin TRIGG
http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?mode=thread&id=3895#p3895

http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?mode=thread&id=1582#p1582

Eva Evangelina PRIEST 7/11/1885 Lydbrook ( Methodist recs) (reply)

slowhands — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:42:50 +0000

Year 1886
Month Feb
Day 14
Parents Surname PREEST
Child Forename(s) Eveline Evangelina
Father's Forename(s) John
Mother's Forename(s) Ellen
Mother's Surname
Place of Residence Lydbrook
Occupation Manager
Officiating Minister J Williams
Event type Baptism
Memoranda Born November 7
Notes
Register Reference D2598 3/3
Page No 99
Parish/Chapel West Dean Methodist Circuit

Chemical Works - Naptha (reply)

slowhands — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:11:07 +0000

The Forest Chemical works were linked to Wood ( Naptha , Charcoal etc) , Coal and Iron ( no surprises there then !)

BREAM Chemical Works
The oldest works, near Cannop bridge, were in use in 1835, and George Skipp, who manufactured lead acetate there in 1841, built similar works in the Oakwood valley near Bream in 1844.

From: 'Forest of Dean: Industry', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 326-354. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23267. Date accessed: 19 November 2007.

LYDBROOK Chemical Works

( by Holy Jesus Church in Upper Lydbrook, site of the Old Forge and Lydbrook Valley Garage at some time ?)

At the Upper Lydbrook works, established in 1857, Samuel Russell produced naphtha in 1859

The Lydbrook factory, which also made foundry blackings, remained in use until c. 1933.

John PRIEST 1837 Newland +family pt2 (reply)

slowhands — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:53:09 +0000

Father ?

Year 1808
Month Oct
Day 13

Parents Surname PREEST
Child Forename(s) William
Father's Forename(s) Samuel
Mother's Forename(s) Anne
Mother's Surname
Place of Residence Forest
Occupation
Officiating Minister
Event type Baptism
Memoranda
Notes Baptism at Breem Chapel
Register Reference P227 IN 1/10
Page No 36
Parish/Chapel Newland

first marriage ??
Year 1827
Month Jun
Day 14

Groom Surname PRIEST
Groom Forename(s) William
Groom Age at Marriage
Groom condition Bachelor
Groom Rank or Profession
Groom Residence Newland
Groom Father's Surname
Groom Father's Forename(s)
Groom Father's Rank or Profession

Bride Surname CULLIS
Bride Forename(s) Hannah
Bride Age at Marriage
Bride Condition Spinster
Bride Rank or Profession
Bride Residence Newland
Bride Father's Surname
Bride Father's Forename(s)
Bride Father's Rank or Profession

Licence or Banns Banns
Date of banns
Signature or Mark He signs she marks
Witness 1 James Hill
Witness 2 Miriam Martha Kear
Other witnesses
Officiating Minister Walter Henry Hill Curate of St Briavels
Event type Marriage
Memoranda
Transcriber's Notes
Register Reference P227 IN 1/11
Page No 193
Parish/Chapel Newland

first child ?

Year 1828
Month Oct
Day 19
Parents Surname PRIEST
Child Forename(s) Louisa
Father's Forename(s) William
Mother's Forename(s) Hannah
Mother's Surname
Place of Residence Bream Eaves
Occupation Coal Miner
Officiating Minister M Dixon Off[iciating] Min[ister]
Event type Baptism
Memoranda
Notes
Register Reference P245 IN 1/9
Page No 47
Parish/Chapel Parkend

second marriage ??

Year 1836
Month Jun
Day 18

Groom Surname PRIEST
Groom Forename(s) William
Groom Age at Marriage
Groom condition Widower
Groom Rank or Profession
Groom Residence Hundred of St Braivels
Groom Father's Surname
Groom Father's Forename(s)
Groom Father's Rank or Profession

Bride Surname HARRIS
Bride Forename(s) Mary
Bride Age at Marriage
Bride Condition Spinster
Bride Rank or Profession
Bride Residence Newland
Bride Father's Surname
Bride Father's Forename(s)
Bride Father's Rank or Profession

Licence or Banns Banns
Date of banns
Signature or Mark Both sign
Witness 1 Thomas Harris Coleford
Witness 2 Edith Dowle Lane end
Other witnesses
Officiating Minister Barnard Elliott Percy Off[iciatin]g Min[ister]
Event type Marriage
Memoranda
Transcriber's Notes Witnesses include residence.
Register Reference P227 IN 1/11
Page No 292
Parish/Chapel Newland

1841 Cinderhill
William Priest abt 1811 Gloucestershire, England Newland Gloucestershire
Mary Priest abt 1821 Gloucestershire, England Newland Gloucestershire
George Priest abt 1839 Gloucestershire, England Newland Gloucestershire
Hubert Priest abt 1841 Gloucestershire, England Newland Gloucestershire
John Priest abt 1837 Gloucestershire, England Newland Gloucestershire

1851
William Priest abt 1809 West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Head West Dean Gloucestershire
Mary Priest abt 1818 Coleford, Gloucestershire, England Wife West Dean Gloucestershire
Annie M Priest abt 1844 Coleford, Gloucestershire, England Daughter West Dean Gloucestershire
Charles Priest abt 1848 Coleford, Gloucestershire, England Son West Dean Gloucestershire
George Priest abt 1839 Coleford, Gloucestershire, England Son West Dean Gloucestershire
Hubert Priest abt 1841 Coleford, Gloucestershire, England Son West Dean Gloucestershire
John S Priest abt 1838 Coleford, Gloucestershire, England Son West Dean Gloucestershire
Mary A Priest abt 1850 Westdean, Gloucestershire, England Daughter West Dean Gloucestershire
Thomas Priest abt 1799 Westdean, Gloucestershire, England Brother West Dean Gloucestershire

Eva E. ARMATAGE (nee PRIEST) London (reply)

slowhands — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:34:52 +0000

Wonder if this is her marriage ?

< UPDATE - off board mail seems to confirm that this is NOT Eva P >

Name: James J Armatage
Name: Eva E Priest
Year of Registration: 1915
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Spouse's Surname: Armatage
District: St George Hanover Square
County: London, Middlesex
Volume: 1a
Page: 1507

and children

Name: Alice E Armatage
Year of Registration: 1916
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
Mother's Maiden Name: Priest
District: St Pancras (1902-1977)
County: Greater London, London
Volume: 1b
Page: 85

Name: George A Armatage
Year of Registration: 1918
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
Mother's Maiden Name: Priest
District: St George Hanover Square
County: London, Middlesex
Volume: 1a
Page: 502

I wonder ?

Name: George Alfred Armatage
Birth Date: 19 Dec 1917
Death Registration Month/Year: Apr 1991
Age at death (estimated): 73
Registration district: Surrey Northern
Inferred County: Surrey
Volume: 17
Page: 443

John PRIEST 1837 - 1894 Newland +family pt1 (reply)

slowhands — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:20:51 +0000

Name: John Piest
Name: Hannah Mason
Year of Registration: 1859
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Monmouth (1837-1939)
County: Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire
Volume: 11a
Page: 59

1861
John Priest abt 1838 Hersham, Gloucestershire, England Head East Dean Gloucestershire
Hannah Priest abt 1838 Ruadcon, Gloucestershire, England Wife East Dean Gloucestershire
Thomas W Priest abt 1860 East Dean, Gloucestershire, England Son East Dean Gloucestershire

1871
John L Priest abt 1837 Coleford, Gloucestershire, England Head West Dean Gloucestershire
Anna Priest abt 1837 Ruardean, Gloucestershire, England Wife West Dean Gloucestershire
Clara Priest abt 1871 West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Daughter West Dean Gloucestershire
Oliver Priest abt 1868 West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Son West Dean Gloucestershire
Thersa Priest abt 1864 Kensworth, Staffordshire, England Daughter West Dean Gloucestershire

Name: Hannah Priest
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1837
Year of Registration: 1880
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
Age at Death: 43
District: Monmouth (1837-1939)
County: Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire
Volume: 11a
Page: 11

1881
John T. Priest abt 1838 Coleford, Gloucestershire, England Head West Dean Gloucestershire Widow
Annie Priest abt 1879 West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Daughter West Dean Gloucestershire
Charles J. Priest abt 1874 West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Son West Dean Gloucestershire
Clara Priestabt 1872 West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Daughter West Dean Gloucestershire
Louisa Priest abt 1875 West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Daughter West Dean Gloucestershire
Mary Priest abt 1877 West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Daughter West Dean Gloucestershire
Oliver Priest abt 1868 West Dean, Gloucestershire, England Son West Dean Gloucestershire
Theresa Priest abt 1864 Handsworth, Staffordshire, England Daughter West Dean Gloucestershire

Name: John Samuel Priest
Name: Ellen Gwilliam
Year of Registration: 1881
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Stratford Upon Avon
County: Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire
Volume: 6d
Page: 753

Name: Evaline Evangeline Priest
Year of Registration: 1886
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District : MOnmouth
County: Monmouth
Volume: 11a
Page: 21

1891
John S Priest abt 1838 Coleford, Gloucestershire, England Head West Dean Gloucestershire
Ellen Priest abt 1842 Long Marston, Gloucestershire, England Wife West Dean Gloucestershire
Areme Priest abt 1879 Lydbrook, Gloucestershire, England Daughter West Dean Gloucestershire
Charles Priest abt 1874 Lydbrook, Gloucestershire, England Son West Dean Gloucestershire
Clara Priest abt 1872 Breden, Gloucestershire, England Daughter West Dean Gloucestershire
Elleanor Priest abt 1884 Lydbrook, Gloucestershire, England Daughter West Dean Gloucestershire
Evangeline Priest abt 1886 Lydbrook, Gloucestershire, England Daughter West Dean Gloucestershire

Year 1894
Month Apr
Day 10
Surname PRIEST
Forename(s) John Samuel
Place of Residence Lydbrook
Age at death 56 years
Lydbrook

1901
Eva Pucox abt 1886 Lydbrook, Gloucestershire, England Servant Worcester Worcestershire

in household of
Frank Lock abt 1864 Worcester, Worcestershire, England Head Worcester Worcestershire Shop Keeper Provisions
Anne Lock abt 1865 Worcester, Worcestershire, England Wife Worcester Worcestershire
Frank Lock abt 1896 Worcester, Worcestershire, England Son Worcester Worcestershire
George Lock abt 1900 Worcester, Worcestershire, England Son Worcester Worcestershire
William Lock abt 1893 Worcester, Worcestershire, England Son Worcester Worcestershire

PRIEST Family Lydbrook (reply)

shepway — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:07:44 +0000

I am writing to Alison and Brian off list. I have quite a bit of information on the family up to 1900 as a result of the Gwilliam connection.

Mike

PRIEST Family Lydbrook (reply)

PhilipN — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 07:27:55 +0000

Just a suggestion about Eveline. With a middle name like Evangeline it is possible there were Salvation Army connections. This was the name of William Booth's daughter.

PRIEST Family Lydbrook

priest — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:32:22 +0000

I am searching for my husband's Grandmother EVELINE EVANGELINE PRIEST who was born in Lydbrook on 7th November 1885 and anything else about the family.
I have found out the following
Her Mother was Ellen Priest formerly Gwilliam nee Payne born 1842 in Long Marston and died in Lydbrook on 3.4.1898.
Her Father was John Samuel Priest born in 1838 in Coleford and died in Lydbrook on 10.4.1894. He was the Manager of the chemical works next to the Jovial Colliers P.H. In the 1891 census they were shown as living in a house between the Crown & Sceptre Inn and the Jovial Colliers Inn.
There were six children
Clara born 24.1.1871 in Bream who married Caleb Thomas on 15.7.1897 in Coleford
Charles James born 24.9.1874 in Lydbrook who married Mary Duberly on 26.3.1894 in Lydbrook
Annie born 4.1.1879 in Lydbrook
Ellen Emily born 19.11.1882 in Lydbrook who died in Lydbrook 7.3.1883 aged 4 months
Ellenor Daisy born 25.5.1884 in Lydbrook
EVELINE EVANGELINE PRIEST born 7.11.1885 Lydbrook

Father John died on 10.4.1894 in Lydbrook and his wife on 3.4.1898 in Lydbrook

All these details have been obtained from parish records. However I can find no records regarding EVELINE at all. Her information came from tracing her birth certificate.

That is all we know until Eveline who was unmarried at the time gave birth on the 3.2.1909 to a son Leonard John Priest (My husbands Father) in London Putney. Leonard was adopted we think at about 3 years old. We are now trying to find out what happened to Eveline by searching records of deaths.

Any information about this family would be so appreciated or any information about the chemical works where John S. Priest worked. We have no idea what happened to any of the younger children once orphaned.

We intend to come up to Lydbrook from Cornwall to see if we can at least locate the graves of John, Ellen and baby Ellen in the church of Holy Jesus Lydbrook. We have been trying to contact the vicar there with no success to see if there are any details of burial plots.

Any information would be so very much appreciated by us both
Alison & Brian Priest