Forest of Dean FHT Forum - Hewler's Farm --> John HEWLER family of Rodley c1630s

Hewler's Farm --> John HEWLER family of Rodley c1630s (reply)

Jefff — Sun, 30 Apr 2017 12:25:49 +0000

I think this PR was transcribed after this thread was started, Rodway's not TOO far from the Brains' Green area, all Severn side of the Forest so maybe this family are related to the original occupier of Hewler's Farm in Brain's Green ?.

This is the only name transcribed as HEWLER in the FoD database, altho I see dozens of close variations such as Hillier/Hallier/Howler etc along the general floodplain area north of the Severn, all fertile farming land hence occupied long before the higher Forest was developed during the Industrial Revolution. To my surprise given the way Foresters drop their "H"s, I see no PRs for Ewler etc.

Record_ID: 216251
Entry_Number:
Year: 1638
Month: Nov
Day: 13
Surname: HEWLER
Forenames: John
Residence: Rodley
Age_at_death:
Officiating_Minister:
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda: sonn of James Hewler
Notes:
Register_Reference: P354 IN 1/1
Page_No: 68
Parish_Chapel: Westbury on Severn
Soundex: H460

Hewler's Farm - location nr Blakeney Hill (reply)

jane gould — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:30:24 +0000

thanks x

Hewler's Farm - location nr Blakeney Hill (reply)

slowhands — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:57:20 +0000

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/
co-ords 366800 207900
(just south of Millers Farm, Brains Green)

Current address
Hewlers Farm, Blakeney, Gloucestershire GL15 4AP

modern OS ref SO 6680 0790

http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?mode=thread&id=4978#p4978

Hewler's farm

jane gould — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:29:25 +0000

On the west boundary of the parish some houses were built near the Ayleford-Blakeney road, including Hewler's Farm, a three-storeyed farmhouse of the late 17th century, and a few mid 19th-century cottages, loosely connected to the adjoining Forest hamlet of Blakeney Hill.

From: 'Awre', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 14-46. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23250. Date accessed: 04 January 2008.

Does anyone know of the family who built this farm? I can find no references to the name in the FoD database. I know that some of the WOOD family I am tracing were living there in the mid c19 but by 1876 according to the Morris & Co directory, some farmers named DAVIS lived there. Any suggestions welcome!