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

Could they have a timber farm at Ryalls Farm? And perhaps it was a summer home also? I would be looking for possible brothers or sisters of Francis Morgan to see if they owned the farm. Eliz On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Pat Hanby <p.m.hanby@reading.ac.uk> wrote: > > 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 189! 1 ! >  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 > > >  _____________________________________________ > > 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 >