Forest of Dean FHT Forum - Clarke - Box Tree Cottage ( map)

Clarke - Box Tree Cottage ( map) (reply)

mrsbruso — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 04:20:20 +0000

Wow. Thanks, Slowhands. I tried to find in on goggle maps but couldn't find it. I remember the conservatory in the back, and there was a stone outbuilding for the pigs. I was looking on New Road, though, so I'll have to have another go at it. My husband read sat photos for the Army, but it's obviously not a skill we shared!

And Chris W., slowhands earlier found a birth for what may well be my William, which places his parents marriage in 1770 and his baptism in 1772. That's kind of exciting.

I've sent away to the GRO for his death certificate, and hope to be able to work backward from there. Now if only I could identify which of the four Elizabeth Griffiths baptised in the area parishes was his wife, I will be able to expand my search.

Box Tree Cottage, Blakeney ( map) (reply)

slowhands — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 08:18:47 +0000

Modern address and map ;-

Box Tree Cottage, 2, Blakeney Hill Road, Blakeney, Gloucestershire , GL15 4BT

{Blakeney Hill Road joins New Road}

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&rlz=1T4ADBF_en-GBGB310GB310&q=GL15%204BT&am...

William Clarke (reply)

mrsbruso — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 03:22:51 +0000

Slowhands has been invaluable in helping me; his suspicion was that my William was born considerably earlier than indicated in the 1841 census, being nearer 70 at the time than 60 . . . he may well be the same William from your list . . .and some of the names on your list are repeated in my William's family, so perhaps they were family names which were passed down from generation to generation. Or maybe the Clarke family as a whole just wasn't horribly imaginative!

William Clarke (reply)

mrsbruso — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 01:25:36 +0000

They may be the same group . . . but I haven't made it back that far yet.

William Clarke was born in 1781. In the 1841 census he is living in Blakeney, with two other people; Richard Clarke born in 1820 or 1821, and Henry Clarke, born in 1833. (I'm intrigued; no women in the house!) I have a great paper trail on Richard, but William and Henry both just sort of disappear.

I found a marriage about 1815 for a widower, William Clarke, to Elizabeth Griffith or Griffiths, but I haven't done enough research to determine if it's the correct William.

Richard goes to the Pontypool area (Trevethin? Abergavenny? I'd have to check my records.) He goes back to Box Tree Cottage with some frequency, and my grandfather Charles Lewis was born there in 1881, as was his older brother, Thomas (known to all and sundry as Jim.) Two other children were born elsewhere. Richard was living in the house at the time of his death (1882), his widow died there about 1913, and my great grandmother, their daughter Mary Ann Clarke Lewis James died there in 1918.

One of Mary Ann's sisters, Annie Maria married George Workman.

I have been focussing more on my Lewis ancestors because of an intriguing mystery in that line, but had been told that the Clarke side went way, way, way back in the Forest, but I don't know if it was always under the name Clarke, or if it was on the distaff side.

William Clarke (reply)

ChrisW — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:19:00 +0000

When was your William born please? I have the following Clark/es in my tree but I don't know if they are the same ones you are looking for!

Ann Clark 1783 (ggg grandmother married to George Morse)
William Clark 1741
William Clark 1772
Henry Clark 1775
Thomas Clark 1777
Elizabeth Clark 1780
Richard Clark 1785
Harriett Clark 1788
Elizabeth Clark 1722

Colstrey Blakeney ( map) (reply)

mrsbruso — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:51:29 +0000

Probably barking up the wrong tree here but my Clarke ancestors liked in the same house alternaely referred to as near Blakeney Hill, Awre, and Old Furnace East Dean. . . The house was called Box Tree Cottage and its in the New Road. Don't know if that info helps or hurts but it gives me another lead on William Clarke.

Colstrey Blakeney ( map) (reply)

slowhands — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:03:43 +0000

looks very promising

modern address
Colstrey Cottage, Clarks Lane, Blakeney GL15 4BL

< "Google maps" - use GL15 4BL >

The Patches, Bailey Hill, Blakeney Walk / Danby Walk (reply)

sue — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:16:07 +0000

I know of area now called colstry meadow near road called clarks lane, blakeney
could this perhaps have been the area. on the awre 1840 map the fields were called culstrey hill and culstrey meadow.

The Patches, Bailey Hill, Blakeney Walk / Danby Walk (reply)

ChrisW — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:23:32 +0000

Oh good you're back! Thanks sire.

The Patches, Bailey Hill, Blakeney Walk / Danby Walk (reply)

slowhands — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:04:39 +0000

... are between Stoney Green and Moseley Green, not too far north from Danby Lodge and Howbeech.

Orchard at Blakeney Hill

ChrisW — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:37:13 +0000

Are you all out Crimbo shopping?

I'm trying to decipher a word on George Morse's Will of 1839. He owned a two acre orchard on the side of Blakeney Hill, near to the premises of William Clarke. George said it was called (here I struggle!) Coushy/Cousty - and now looking again it could be Cowship or Cowslip Orchard. It was also known as Patch. Does this mean anything to anyone please?