Hi Pat, If you go to http://maps.familysearch.org and narrow in on the parish of Slimbridge, then choose to overlay the Ordinance Survey, you will find Ryalls Farm in the upper left hand part of the parish. It borders on the Berkeley Canal. By comparing the Descriptions on the Registration Districts for Slimbridge, you will probably be able to narrow down the actual location of where your people lived. This is my usual way of looking for estates or farms, and it has been a very useful tool. Regards, Nancy Frey Newcastle, Ontario, CANADA OPC for Ansford & Castle Cary, Somerset Owner/Moderator of Yahoo! FULFORD_North Devon Group Owner/Moderator of Yahoo! DAVIDGE Connections Group ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Hanby" <p.m.hanby@reading.ac.uk> To: <gloucester@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 6:23 AM Subject: [GLS] Ryalls Farm, Slimbridge > > I'm trying to find out who was living at Ryalls Farm Slimbridge around 1880-1890. My grandmother > Annie Elizabeth Morgan (born 1875) lived with her family at Cambridge Villa on the Bristol Road, > in both 1881 and 1891 censuses (the family were also there in 1871) However she used to talk > about Ryalls Farm as though she lived there, or at least stayed there frequently. She told us how > she would climb out of a bedroom window and down a tree by the house. She also did a tapestry > picture of the farmhouse, which my cousin now has. Her father, Francis Henry Morgan, was a > timber merchant, and I wondered whether his timber yard could have been at (or near) Ryalls Farm > rather than where they actually lived. I should imagine even then the A38 would be a busy road and > a business like his was more likely to be off the main road. It must have been quite big - in an > 1876 directory he is "timber merchand and steam saw mill proprietor", and he employed 15 men and > 4 boys in 1881. In 1891 ! > he is a timber merchant and farmer, and he died in 1892. > > I've not found Ryalls Farm in the census for 1881 or 1891. > > > Pat Hanby > Reading, UK >