How Did People Move Around???

[rich23434565]

There is another reason for movement.  He may have been employed by a landowner who had several estates and moved to another estate because he was offered a cottage for him and his new wife there.

Oh yes. I hadn't thought of that but it sounds very plausible! They definitely settled there though as Giles Cripps's son, also a blacksmith, and *his* son, another blacksmith, as well as his son in turn, a yeoman by now, all lived in Winson. There were Cripps living there until the end of the 19th century.

[Siamese Girl]

People did move around - I have Gloucestershire ancestors. For example, Richard Child born in Upton St Leonards in 1636 was apprenticed to John Martin a baker in Gloucester in 1651, married Elizabeth Elton in Ledbury (Herefordshire) in 1662 and then set up as a baker in Minchinhampton where he died in 1678. Previously to setting up on his own the family  had been tenants/servants to the local land owning family the Robins, and one of their daughters married into a family at Minchinhampton, which I think, may give the link.

Was Giles Cripps apprenticed to anyone?

Gloucester will for Giles Cripps of Great Rissington 1676/181 and an earlier one for Giles Cripps of Clapton on the Hill 1633/37?

Carole