I looked up some PILLEY stuff a while back for someone else - perhaps some of it may be of use-
PILLEY
I only looked at one Gaol Register – they are on microfilm and require a magnifying glass – something I didn’t have with me.
Lent Assizes 1844
Edward Pilley Age 17. Light brown hair, blue eyes, xxxx visage, fresh complexion, mole in the middle of the back. 137 (lb?), 5ft 5 and a quarter.
Date of admission 13 Nov 1843
Cause of commitment Charged on the oath of William Porter(?) with feloniously stealing at Cheltenham on the 10th day of November instant, eight pounds weight of lead, fixed to the Cheltenham Union Workhouse.
Convicted by S Teast(?) Esq.
When tried Epiphany Sessions, 2 Jan 1844
Sentence 6 calendar months, Lawfords Gate
When discharged 9 Jan 1844
Behaviour Orderly
THE WILL
Edward Pilley … dear wife Mary … all my messuages and tenement being in Gloucester Row in the parish of Tewkesbury … to my wife … for her natural life … all my children in equal share … hereby appoint my wife and eldest son William as executrix and executor …
1851 census
Cheltenham, 20 Portland Street
William Pilley 52 Tailor employing 2 men, Cheltenham
Elizabeth 50 Gloucester
Susan 19 Cheltenham
Harriett 19 Cheltenham
Martha 11 Cheltenham
William Pope(lodger) 60 Gentleman, Frome Somerset
Cheltenham, 3 Victoria Place
John Pilley 54 Decorator, Cheltenham
Harriett 55 Painswick Glos
Josiah 18 Decorator, Cheltenham
Joseph 15 App Decorator, Cheltenham
Cheltenham, 16 Union Street
Charles Miles Pilley 35 Tailor, Tewkesbury
Mary 40 Laundress, Gloucester
Henry 15 Errand boy, Cheltenham
Mary Ann 13 Errand girl, Cheltenham
Emily 9 Scholar, Cheltenham
Charles 6 Scholar, Cheltenham
Susan 4m Cheltenham
(I didn’t check the villages adjacent to Cheltenham)
A Glos marriage index contains the following:
Edward Pilley to Sarah Havett 1822 Tewkesbury
William Pilley to Martha Miles 1804 Tewkesbury (note Charles Miles Pilley above)
William Pilley to Elizabeth Harris 1820 Cheltenham
Baptisms at St Marys – I looked at 1822-26
27/12/22 John, 22/9/24 William, 12/4/26 all of William (tailor) and Martha Pilley
The only records of the Ebenezer Chapel held were baptisms, 1812-37; it gave both birth dates and baptismal dates. These were the Pilleys:
17/2/23, 3/6/23 John Hinton Pilley of John (cabinet maker) and Harriott
24/3/25, 1/6/25 William Pilley of John (joiner) and Elizabeth
9/7/27, 4/9/27 George Pilley of John (carpenter) and Hannah
23/6/29, 30/8/29 Mary Jane Pilley of John (carpenter) and Hannah
3/3/29, 30/8/29 Mary Ann Pilley of William (tailor) and Elizabeth
25/6/29, 30/8/29 Robert Hinton Pilley of John (carpenter) and Harriott
19/2/31, 5/7/31 Harriott Pilley of John (carpenter) and Harriott
?/4/33 (no name) Pilley of (noname, tailor) and noname
Various directories of Cheltenham
1842
Pilley William, 20 Portland St, Tailor and Draper (henceforth T+D)
1852/3
Pilley Charles, Union St, T+D
Pilley Wm, 20 Portland St, T+D
Pilley John, 3 Victoria St, Paper hanger
1868
Pilley Edward, 3 Winchcomb Place, T+D
Pilley William, 20 Portland St T+D
Pilley Joseph, 11 North St, Paper hanger
1872/3
Pilley Edward, 3 Winchcomb Place, Tailor
Pilley John, 4 Victoria St
Pilley Joseph, 11 North St House decorator
Pilley Mrs J, 8 Chester Walk, Tailoress
Pilley W, 20 Portland St, Tailor
1878
Pilley J, 11 North St, House decorator
Pilley W, 20 Portland St, Tailor
1907
Pilley J, 1 Glenfern Villas
Pilley WJH&Co, 12 North St
Pilley WJH, 5 Columbia Place
Pilley WA, 25 St Pauls St North
Finally the marriages at St Marys
6 July 1848 by licence
Enoch Taylor (full age) Bachelor Woollen draper Manchester Thomas Taylor Builder
Louisa Elizabeth (full age) Spinster ……………… Portland St William Pilley Tailor
Both signed. Witnesses: William Pilley, Mary Ann Pilley
23 May 1850 by licence
Thomas Edwards (full age) Bachelor (Schoolmaster?) St Paul City of London James Edwards xxxx?
Mary Ann Pilley (full age) Spinster ………………….Portland Street Wm Pilley Tailor
Both signed. Witnesses: William Pilley, Louisa Taylor
There was no Pilley marriage recorded there between June 1864 and Oct 1867.
