From: Elizabeth Jack <ejack(a)gloster.demon.co.uk>
To: Mike Caswell <lance(a)caswellplating.com>
Subject: Caswell research
Date: Thursday, October 23, 1997 5:25 PM
Hi Mike
I have continued trying to find Cas(s)wells and have now done four hours
work on your behalf. I checked a few more years of GRO marriages but
none of Joshua's children seem to have married in Gloucester and I have
not been able to pinpoint specific marriages for them elsewhere. I can
carry on looking but I am not sure it is going to produce anything
worthwhile - and you can probably do the same at your end anyway!
I checked some more street directories and came up with one or two
interesting items. Most of the Caswells below will not be related to
Joshua but I am fairly confident that the T S Caswell and Thos S Caswell
is his son. I suspect Joshua died soon after 1900 when he vanished from
44 Weston Road.
Street Directories, continued:
Smarts Gloucester Street List:
1906 J Caswell, 3 Upton Street
C W Caswell 49 St Catherine Street
1910 C W Caswell 72 St Catherine Street
T.S. Caswell 32 Parkend road [Must be son of Joshua]
J Caswell 80 Millbrook Street [Think this is Jeremiah]
[Parkend Road is just round the corner from Weston Road]
1912 Chas. W Caswell 72 St Catherine Street
Thos. .S. Caswell 32 Parkend road [Almost
certainly son of Joshua!]
Jeremiah Caswell 80 Millbrook Street
Gloucester Year Book:
1918 Chas W Caswell 72 St Catherine Street
and in 1920 and 1927
[Where was Thomas?]
Smarts Directory:
1920 E.J. Caswell 41 Theresa Street
J Caswell 10 Napier Street
and! T S Caswell J Reynolds & Co Ltd, Docks
Res: 134 London Road (but not there in 1927)
Interesting!! Reynolds & Co were millers! So presumably Thomas S
followed in his fathers footsteps and went on to greater things! I do
not think the Reynolds company are still in business but they were until
relatively recently because I can remember going past the building. The
Reynolds warehouse is still a major feature of Gloucester Docks which
are regularly used as a backdrop to historical TV and film dramas.
There must be information in the local record offices on Reynolds & Co
so there may be more on Thomas there as well.
1930 CW Caswell 72 St Catherines Street
Mrs E M Caswell 76 St Catherines Street
J Caswell 10 Napier Street
W Caswell Church Field Road, Upton St Leonards
1936 E J Caswell 76 St Catherines Street
J Caswell 10 Napier Street
C J Caswell 19 Northfield Road
C W Caswell 39 Ashgrove Street
J Caswell Alberta, Painswick Road
W C Caswell 58 Deans Way
1939 Jeremiah Caswell 21 Bowly Road **
Mrs A S Caswell 39 Ashgrove Avenue, Coney Hill
Wm Caswell 19 Eastern Avenue
and in 1940, 1941, 1924, 1945, 1946
[** I was actually born at 26 Bowly Road in 1942!! I remember the name
of Caswell and seem to want to attach the name Edith to it for some
reason. I asked my dad this evening if he remembered the name Caswell -
but he could not remember it in Bowly Road but said they knew a Caswell
before they moved to Gloucester. I think he is confused (not surprising
at 86) and that they lived over the road from us, but as I was only a
small child at the time, I cannot remember anything about the family -
sorry!]
1949 As above except Wm Caswell was replaced by Wilfred Caswell
1952 Jeremiah Caswell 21 Bowly Road **
Mrs A S Caswell 39 Ashgrove Avenue, Coney Hill
Wilfred Caswell 19 Eastern Avenue
David Caswell 51 Ryecroft Street
1957 Mrs A S Caswell 39 Ashgrove Avenue, Coney Hill
Wilfred Caswell 19 Eastern Avenue
David Caswell 51 Ryecroft Street
Also 1959
1961 Mrs A S Caswell 39 Ashgrove Avenue, Coney Hill
Mrs L Caswell 19 Eastern Avenue
David Caswell 51 Ryecroft Street
1963 Miss A Caswell 39 Ashgrove Avenue, Coney Hill
David Caswell 51 Ryecroft Street
and 1965, 1967
1968/9 Mrs A S Caswell 39 Ashgrove Avenue, Coney Hill
David Caswell 51 Ryecroft Street
Wm J Caswell 6 Chosen Way
1970-2 Mrs A S Caswell 39 Ashgrove Avenue, Coney Hill
David Caswell 51 Ryecroft Street
A Caswell 6 Chosen Way
V Caswell 6 Chosen Way
1973 Mrs A S Caswell 39 Ashgrove Avenue, Coney Hill
David Caswell 51 Ryecroft Street
A Caswell 6 Chosen Way
V Caswell 6 Chosen Way
A M Caswell 22 Linnet Close
David J Caswell 87 Thoresby Avenue
1974 Mrs A S Caswell 39 Ashgrove Avenue, Coney Hill
David Caswell 51 Ryecroft Street
A M Caswell 22 Linnet Close
David J Caswell 3 Kimberley Road
Well, that was the end of the directories!
Where now?
Liz
Elizabeth Jack : ejack(a)gloster.demon.co.uk
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