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Part 5: Charles Gough (c1832 - 1881)

 

Working life and marriage to Ann Bullock

Charles Gough was the eldest son of Joseph Gough and Lydia (surname unknown). He was born c1832 in Hempsted. He was a labourer all his life but in different industries: He started as an agricultural labourer, as generations of Gough men before him, then worked in the nearby docks, then finally in a timber yard.

He married Ann Bullock (c1835 - 1930) 15 November 1858 at St Mary de Lode Parish Church, Gloucester. Ann had been born c1835 in the village of Bulley, just to the west of Gloucester. Her father Joseph was a sawyer. Neither Charles nor Ann was able to sign their name at their wedding. They lived the rest of their married lives in Hempsted and had six children: Lydia, George, Charles, Sydney, William Joseph and Annie Elizabeth.

Charles died in 1881, aged about 49. After his death, Ann moved down the road until her youngest children had left home. Then she went to live with youngest daughter Annie for a time. Later she lodged near her eldest daughter Lydia and her family. It is not known how she supported herself after her husband’s death but no doubt her children helped out. During her marriage she had worked as a charwoman so she may have continued until she became too infirm. Ann lived to be 92 and died in Gloucestershire in 1930.

 

Children of Charles and Ann

More information about Lydia (1861 – 1946) appears in Part 6.

 

George (c1863 - ?) was born c1863 in Hempsted. As a teenager he worked as a labourer in a timber yard, possibly the same one as his father. There is no confirmed record of him after 1881.

 

Charles (c1864 - ?) was born c1864 and worked as a lath cleaver in his teenage years. He married Ellen Browning (c1869 - ?) in 1889 and they had six children: Elsie May, Charles Henry, Albert William, Lydia Ellen, Frederick George, Iris Doreen and Sydney Alfred. For a time Charles worked as a blacksmith labourer and the family moved to Cardiff in the late 1890s, probably for employment reasons. The family then returned to Gloucester by 1881 where Charles worked as a lath render. It is not certain when either he or Ellen died.

 

Sydney (1866 - ?) was born in Hempsted in 1866. He worked as a chip boy for a slate works as a teenager then in the timber industry where he carried deal (also known as redwood or Scot’s pine). Sydney would have carried planks of deal on his shoulder from ships to pile in the timber yards and then when they were sold, carried them to a railway wagon or canal boat. It was very hard work and despite the men sometimes wearing a leather pad to protect their shoulders, they developed quite hardened skin. Sydney married Louisa Grendall (c1868 - ?) in 1891 and they lived only a short distance from his mother and siblings. They had nine children: Elsie May, Louisa, Charles William, Walter Henry, Florence May, George William. Albert Reginald, Louisa Selina and Ivor George. It is not certain when or where Sydney or Louisa died.

 

William Joseph (1871 - ?) was born in Hempsted in 1871. He became a blacksmith and married Eliza Amelia Hall (c1873 - ?) in 1894. They had five children: Lydia Annie, Clarice Tina, Charles William and two unknown children who probably died in infancy. Although the family took in boarders over the years, they were probably not badly off. At one point, Eliza’s parents and three siblings were living with them in Gloucester. It is not known where or when William or Eliza died.

 

Annie Elizabeth (1874 - 1905) was born 1874 in Hempsted. She became a tailoress and married fellow tailor James Nathaniel Clements (1873 - 1949) in 1897. Annie’s mother came to live with them for a short while. They had two daughters: Ethel May and Gertrude Ellen. Sadly, Annie died in 1905, a year after Gertrude was born.

 

Next: Lydia Gough


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