Hi Janet, at the time of the decline in the woollen industry I doubt that out of work weavers went to America as the American War of Independence had taken place some time previously. However, Australia was being developed as a British colony and welcomed immigrants from the old country at that time. It may be that some out of work weavers turned to agriculture but other industries may have absorbed some of them. For instance in Horsley Isaac HILLIER set up a business manufacturing products from pork at about this time. The mills found other uses such as making walking sticks and substantial thick card. In my own family some were involved in the woolen industry, as weavers and as mill owners but others were butchers, publicans, and brushmakers. Those who worked in the woolen industry tended to stay put but others moved to some relatively distant places: Bath, Bristol, Birmingham and London. There are a number of people named WALL in the Shortwood Baptist Church [Horsley] records. Horsley/Nailsworth is about four miles south of Stroud. Best wishes, Janet In a message dated 27/01/2011 20:46:41 GMT Standard Time, JANLWH@aol.com writes: Janet, This information is valuable to me also. I am searching the WALL family from Tarlton in 1792. John and Nancy Wall were parents to my 3rd ggf William Wall born in Tarlton 1792. As an adult, he married and lived in Biddestone, Wiltshire about 11 miles away as an AG worker. I can find no other Wall families in Biddestone. It is like he just showed up there from somewhere else. There is only one other Wall family in Tarlton in the 1790's and none on the later census's that I can find. I am trying to find where this WALL family was from? There must be parents and aunts, uncles and siblings living somewhere! I am trying to connect to the WALL families in the Stroud area who were in the wool business. I am in contact with a descendant of this Wall family in Stroud here in the USA. I am having my brothers YDNA tested and she is having her father's done. There may be a link. We will see. I see you wrote that Uley saw the sharp decline of it's wool industry in the early 18th century and many families moved to far away places like Australia and America. Perhaps, some moved to other close by villages to work in the Agriculture business as mine did. I will browse thru the Parish records of Uley to see if I find any Wall families. That is if these records are available! Thanks for the information. It has given me a new direction to search. Another, Janet In a message dated 1/26/2011 12:55:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, JANETHESKI@aol.com writes: Hi Janine, Uley is a picturesque small village near Stroud that was once highly industrialised. Uley blue was used for the uniforms of the British Navy. Most of the Gloucestershire woollen industry was lost in the first part of the eighteenth century. The weavers were then on hard times and many emigrated to Australia, sometimes with financial aid from their home parish. On many occasions the places where they settled in Australia were given names that reminded them of places they were fond of in England. It may be that some chose to use an English place name as part of the name by which they were known. This latter is conjecture on my part... Cheers, Janet Heskins

Hi, The information about Uley is very interesting as I have an old family tree which states "Charles WHITTARD of Uley in the County of Gloucestershire had issue by Hester, his wife, b.1683, d.177l". One of their nine children, Thomas, married Sarah MIDDLEMORE and were my ggggg-grandparents. Most of the family seemed to stay in that area and then moved to Cheltenham. Pauline On 27/01/2011 4:23 PM, JANETHESKI@aol.com wrote: > Hi Janet, > at the time of the decline in the woollen industry I doubt that out of work > weavers went to America as the American War of Independence had taken > place some time previously. However, Australia was being developed as a British > colony and welcomed immigrants from the old country at that time. > > It may be that some out of work weavers turned to agriculture but other > industries may have absorbed some of them. For instance in Horsley Isaac > HILLIER set up a business manufacturing products from pork at about this time. > The mills found other uses such as making walking sticks and substantial > thick card. > > In my own family some were involved in the woolen industry, as weavers and > as mill owners but others were butchers, publicans, and brushmakers. Those > who worked in the woolen industry tended to stay put but others moved to > some relatively distant places: Bath, Bristol, Birmingham and London. > > There are a number of people named WALL in the Shortwood Baptist Church > [Horsley] records. Horsley/Nailsworth is about four miles south of Stroud. > > Best wishes, > > Janet > > In a message dated 27/01/2011 20:46:41 GMT Standard Time, JANLWH@aol.com > writes: > Janet, > > This information is valuable to me also. I am searching the WALL family > from Tarlton in 1792. John and Nancy Wall were parents to my 3rd ggf > William Wall born in Tarlton 1792. As an adult, he married and lived in > Biddestone, Wiltshire about 11 miles away as an AG worker. I can find no > other > Wall families in Biddestone. It is like he just showed up there from > somewhere else. There is only one other Wall family in Tarlton in the > 1790's and > none on the later census's that I can find. > I am trying to find where this WALL family was from? There must be > parents and aunts, uncles and siblings living somewhere! I am trying to > connect > to the WALL families in the Stroud area who were in the wool business. I > am in contact with a descendant of this Wall family in Stroud here in > the > USA. I am having my brothers YDNA tested and she is having her father's > done. There may be a link. We will see. > I see you wrote that Uley saw the sharp decline of it's wool industry in > the early 18th century and many families moved to far away places like > Australia and America. Perhaps, some moved to other close by villages to > work > in the Agriculture business as mine did. > I will browse thru the Parish records of Uley to see if I find any Wall > families. That is if these records are available! > Thanks for the information. It has given me a new direction to search. > > Another, > > Janet > In a message dated 1/26/2011 12:55:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > JANETHESKI@aol.com writes: > > Hi Janine, > > Uley is a picturesque small village near Stroud that was once highly > industrialised. Uley blue was used for the uniforms of the British Navy. > Most of > the Gloucestershire woollen industry was lost in the first part of the > eighteenth century. The weavers were then on hard times and many > emigrated to > Australia, sometimes with financial aid from their home parish. > > On many occasions the places where they settled in Australia were given > names that reminded them of places they were fond of in England. It may > be > that some chose to use an English place name as part of the name by > which > they were known. > > This latter is conjecture on my part... > > Cheers, > > Janet Heskins > > _____________________________________________ > > Gloucestershire Family History Society: > www.gfhs.org.uk > > Gloucestershire Archives: > www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=15434 > > Gloucestershire BMD Index 1837 to 2005: > http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/bmd/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GLOUCESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >