Green of South Gloucestershire & Bristol

 It was well known in the family that Fred Green, who was born in 1862 in the south Gloucestershire village of Pucklechurch. It was a mining area right up until the 1930s when the last pit closed. 

Fred, like all the local youths started his working life down the mine, but obviously aware of the hard life ahead saw distinct advantages in seeking work in the nearby city of Bristol.  He was successful, married a girl from deepest Somerset and together they raised a family.  His granddaughter is a joint author of this history.  This was just about all we knew and being local had high hopes of tracing his line back many generations.  

Perhaps surprisingly the earliest Green we found with certainty was Isaac, who married Betty Cook in Dodington in 1762.  He was probably born about 1740.   There were possible baptisms of an Isaac within a 20-mile radius but we have been into this hobby too long to construct a genealogical tree on uncertain evidence.

The South Gloucestershire coalfield had a long history, back indeed to mediaeval times.  It has now gone completely and with it many of the mining records.  We have included here such mining references as relate to the Green family   

The information collected deserved to be written up in book form.  A very few copies were produced privately in hardback form.  Copies were deposited in the Bristol Record Office and the Society of Genealogists in London.

Later we decided that a wider public might read it so we have put it on this web site.  A few changes to the original book have been made.  Thus we have not included on the web site any of the pictures (figures 3 to 15) referred to in the text.

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