I am tracing my Winterbourne, Gloucestershire Low(e) ancesters who may have moved down from the Forest of Dean area.

I trace back to a Richard Low who married a Rebecca Thomas around 1720 in Bristol but Richard Low's baptism is not in the Bristol or surrounding district regsiters (not found to date anyway) Richard possibly came from a family with money because he established himself as a feltmaker in Winterbourne and from his will was quite wealthy when he died in the 1770s.

I have found a family of Richard Low, Yeoman, in Tidenham around 1700, his sons and daughters were married in Tidenham except for Elizabeth but I can't find his baptism or marriage to Elizabeth ???. Richard died in 1715 in Tidenham and I have his will in which he left a fair anmount of land to his children. I believe he had a brother Henry who died in Tidenham in 1724.

Does anyone know whether Richard and Henry Low originated in the Forest of Dean area? Did Henry have any children?

Lawrence Lowe
Scotland