This is the link to the census (brilliant!)
1881 Census, Minchinhampton
Joseph GOULD 56 - Widower, Wood Sawyer, born Stroud, Gloucestershire
Mary CLIFF - lodger - Widow (Flock & Shoddy Worker) 36 - born Nottingham,** England
Annie CLIFF - lodger - female - 14 Gen Servant Domestic - born Stroud
(written on census as CLIFF)
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** sometimes, people are born in different places, because the canal system was in its hay-day.
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Not sure whether a 'one free look-up' service is available at the Gloucestershire Records Office - this was the case a few years ago, because I used this.
Joseph - 1882 says he was born in Michinhampton, Glos
James - 1886 says he was born in Woodchester, Glos.
Using Genuki Gloucestershire - and calculating distance - this is 2 miles
and this website gives, an Extract from National Gazetter, 1868 for Minchinhampton
'On Minchinhampton Common is a very extensive entrenchment, called Amberley Camp, the site of which belongs to the poor, to whom it was granted by Mrs Alice Hampton in Henry VIII's time, when the allotment was 1,000 acres; but from the encroachments which have occasionally taken place, it has been reduced to nearly half the amount.
The entenchment stretches to the length of 3 miles from the hamlet of Littleworth to a valley on the opposite side of the town, called Woeful Danes Bottom - an appellation supposed to be derived from the sanguinary overthrow suffered by the Danes from Alfred the Great in 879.
