This page is devoted to those ancestors, and their descendants, on whom I do not have much information, and some assumptions have been made.
He was born about 1784 in Kemble, Gloucestershire, married Dinah Fowler on 17th December 1814 in the church of St Mary, Tetbury, Gloucestershire. A son, John, was baptised in Tetbury on 10th March 1821. I believe that they then moved to Ledbury, Herefordshire where a daughter Sarah, (who married Thomas Duggan), was born and her story continues on the Duggan page.
Joseph Jordan, a blacksmith, married Agnes Eastlake on New Year's Day in 1814 in Tavistock, Devon. They had two daughters in Tavistock, Elizabeth in 1815 who may have died in infancy, and Hannah about 1818 and she was baptised on the 24th September 1819. They then moved to the Forest of Dean and another daughter, called Fanny, was born in Lydbrook, Gloucestershire in 1822 and baptised in Holy Trinity church, Drybrook on June 29th 1823. Joseph was described as a forgeman in the Drybrook parish register.
Hannah moved to Coleford, Gloucestershire before 1841 and started work as a servant for Samuel Nash, a 21 year old Butcher. She married William Roberts, a labourer, who had been born in Newland, Gloucestershire in 1811, on the 1st October 1842 in the parish church of Newland and the witnesses were Thomas York and Fanny Jordan, Hannah's sister. William was able to sign his name but Hannah made her mark.
Their first child, Mary, married William Pyner in 1871. There were seven other children of Hannah and William Roberts and details can be found lower down this page.
Hannah and William continued to live in the Clearwell / Newland area until they died, I believe. William was buried at Clearwell on the 14th May 1882 and Hannah probably died in late 1892.
Fanny was born in Lydbrook in the Forest of Dean and married William Pace from Beverstone in Gloucestershire in the parish church at Clearwell on 19th October 1843. They lived in the Forest of Dean for the rest of their lives, William dying before 1881 and Fanny before 1891. They had at least 6 children and one grandchild.
John was born about 1796 in Fairford, Gloucestershire. He and his partner Elizabeth Green had a daughter called Sarah Green about 1815 and her story continues on the Berry page.
John finally married Elizabeth on the 25th October 1821 in Fairford Parish church. They had four other children - John baptised 15th December 1822 who died the next year; Mary in 1824; another John in 1826 and finally Thomas in 1829.
I believe that John moved to County Durham in the early 1850s where he married Hannah Young in the summer of 1854. They had two children, Elizabeth in 1857 and John in 1859. In 1861 they lived in Consett and John worked on the railways as an engine driver. The family also had a lodger called John Hinton who was a carpenter and came from Cricklade in Wiltshire, not far from John's home town of Fairford. Hannah was born in Penrith, Cumberland in 1833.
Thomas also left Gloucestershire when young as he was in Louth, Lincolnshire in 1861 and also worked on the railways, but he was a porter on the GNR, (the Great Northern Railway). His wife, Eliza Townley, was a local girl from Barkworth in Lincolnshire and was probably a widow when she married Thomas, and had a son called Joseph Townley.
Thomas and Eliza also married in the summer of 1854, but in Louth. They had 6 children - Elizabeth, (1856); Mary Ann, (1858); Thomas, (1860); James F, (1862); Agnis, (1864) and lastly Arthur in 1867. By 1871 the family lived at the railway station in Louth and Thomas was still a porter. However, by 1881 they had moved to Walkeringham in Nottinghamshire and Thomas had been promoted to Station Master on the GNR.
John was probably born about in Cwmcarvan, Monmouthshire. He and his wife Sarah had three daughters called Gwenthlean, baptised 24th October 1790, and Abigal and Susannah who were both baptised on 15th July 1792 and may have been twins. Susannah was born in 1789 and her story continues on the Pyner page as she married Joseph Pyner, born 1791.
