The Hoggins ....

Just North East of St Briavels ( village) taking the Coleford road out, at the end of the straight section of road ( say 3/4 mile) is a farm called "Little Hoggins"

I suspect the Hoggins refers to what is now know as the Great Hoggins.

About 1/2 mile south east on the St Briavels to Bream lane is "Great Hoggins" farm.

The Great Hoggins, Bream Road, St Briavels

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/289316

Is up for sale
http://search.knightfrank.co.uk/che100094

James MORSE
Bapt: 1783 in The Forest of Dean Gloucestershire England
Married:Sarah BAKER at the Church of England, Lydney Parish,
Gloucestershire England on 30 May 1811.
Occupation:Coal Haulier
Children:
(1):Sarah MORSE
bapt:11 Oct 1812 at Lydney Gloucestershire England
(2):Joseph MORSE
bapt:11 Oct 1812 at Lydney Gloucestershire England
(3):James MORSE
bapt:08 January 1815 at Lydney Gloucestershire England
John MORSE
bapt:22 June 1817 at Lydney Gloucestershire England
(4):Jane MORSE
bapt:04 February 1821 at Lydney Gloucestershire England
(5):Elizabeth MORSE
bapt:18 July 1824 at Lydney Gloucestershire England

Joseph MORSE
bapt:11 Oct 1812 at Lydney Gloucestershire England
Married:(1): Hannah PAINE When:1844 at Cirencester Gloucestershire England
Father:James MORSE
Mother:Sarah BAKER
remarried: Phoebe MAISEY
Hannah PAINE
Born:30 May 1823
bapt: 08 July 1823 at Littleworth Weslayan Chapel-Nc, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire England
Hannah PAINE’s parents were James PAINE & Sarah

Children:
(i):George MORSE bapt: 19 October 1845
St Briavels Gloucestershire England

(ii):Richard MORSE bapt: 08 September 1850
St Briavels Gloucestershire England

(iii):Henry MORSE bapt 1867
Gloucestershire England

(iv):Joseph MORSE bapt: 1859
Gloucestershire England

I am also a kiwi living in cheltenham at the moment and researching my family tree in the forest of dean.

My family lived at the Hoggins near 1878 which I have only just found out.

My familys surname is James so if you want any photos I would try and get you some. The bus service is not so good in some parts of the forest but while I am out and about if I know which places you are interestd in I will do my best.

Rita James
ritpetite@gmail.com

Just North East of St Briavels ( village) taking the Coleford road out, at the end of the straight section of road ( say 3/4 mile) is a farm called "Little Hoggins"

I suspect the Hoggins refers to what is now know as the Great Hoggins.

About 1/2 mile south east on the St Briavels to Bream lane is "Great Hoggins" farm.

The Great Hoggins, Bream Road, St Briavels

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/289316

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/

coords 357600, 204500

Farmsteads are scattered fairly evenly across the high ground of the east and south parts of the ancient parish. Willsbury and Rodmore were established in the early Middle Ages and Aylesmore Court by the late 17th century. (fn. 55) Great Hoggins Farm, at a place called Willsbury green (fn. 56) where the Bream road meets Rodmore Lane, was owned and farmed by the Allen family from the early 18th century to the mid 19th. (fn. 57) It is a late 17th-century stone farmhouse of two storeys and attics, which had a symmetrical plan with central entrance and end-gable stacks. A back wing was added in 1767, (fn. 58) displaced windows being reset in it, and by the 19th century a lean-to occupied the angle between the new and old ranges. In the mid 19th century the main range was extended eastwards and the dormers and ground-floor windows of the old part of that range were made uniform with those of the extension.

From: 'St. Briavels', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 247-271. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23262. Date accessed: 28 July 2008.

also
Hoggins Cottages, Bream Road, St Briavels. GL15 6RA.

coords 357900. 204600