In 1842 Jesse and Jane Gardiner and their four sons emigrated from Bisley to Australind in Australia as part of a colonial settlement scheme run by the 'Western Australian Company'. They settled and flourished. Their numerous descendants produced the…
History group Note on George Hale and his wife Emily (Nee Minchin) In the 1871 census we find George Hale aged 28, engine driver (born Cirencester) with Emily his wife aged 29, and four children: Georgina 8 born in Bisley, Elizabeth 6 born in…
Halliday's Mill in the valley at Chalford appears to have gotten its name from a succession of Hallidays (John, Thomas, Samuel) who operated it from mid 16th to mid 18th century. Linking the Oakridge Hallidays to these Mill Owners has not so far been…
Samuel Hayden was a labourer from Waterlane. In the 1869 Enclosure map plot 387 (now Middlefield) was awarded to Robert Hayden (His Father?) and then in 1886 awarded to Samuel Hayden of Waterlane, labourer for £3.6.0Documents 2 and 3 are the Family…