Wednesday 19 September 2018

Great x3 Grandmother Grace Nott (nee Cobley)

My Great x3 Grandmother Grace (1828 - 1890) was a wool weaver, housewife and mother of nine.



Grace Cobley was born around 1828 in Bishopsleigh, Morchard Bishop, Devon, to William Cobley (about 30), an agricultural labourer, and Agnes Cobley (nee Davey) (about 39), a serge weaver.

Grace was baptised on 17th February 1828 in Morchard Bishop. It seems likely Grace, the only daughter of William and Agnes, was named after her paternal grandmother.

Grace was the sixth of seven children (six sons and one daughter):

  • Richard  1817 -
  • George  1818 -
  • William  1820 -
  • John  1822 - 
  • James  1826 -
  • Grace  1828 -
  • Samuel  1829 -

1841 Census:


On 27th July 1848, Grace (about 20) married William Nott, an agricultural labourer, in Huntsham, near Tiverton.

Grace and William had nine children (four sons and five daughters):

  • William  1850 -
  • John  1853 -
  • Frederick  1854 -
  • Mary Emma  1856 -
  • Eliza Lydia  1857 -
  • Bessie Staddon  1859 -
  • Walter  1861 -
  • Jessie Rose  1864 -
  • Agnes  1868 -

Around 1851, Grace, William and their eldest children William, likely named for his father, moved about fourteen miles south-west from Huntsham to Cruwys Morchard.

1851 Census:


In the early 1850's, Grace and her family lived in Morchard Bishop, before moving to Bampford, where daughters Mary, Eliza and Bessie were baptised in 1856, 1857 and 1859. The family moved back to Morchard Bishop around 1860. By 1861, they were living at Oldborough, less than a mile south of Morchard Bishop.

1861 Census:


Sometime in the 1860's, the family moved again from Oldboroughto Southcott Cottage, also in Morchard Bishop.

1871 Census:


In 1875, a shirt belonging to Grace's husband William was stolen. Grace proved the case. A William Crossman was apprehended and the stolen property found upon him; thus was William's shirt thankfully recovered.

From the Western Times on 15th October 1875:


In the 1881 Census, whilst Grace remained at Southcott Cottage with their daughter Jessie and infant granddaughter Edith Edworthy, her husband William resided at West Aish, also in Morhard Bishop, where he worked as a farm labourer.

1881 Census:


In Apr/May/Jun 1890, Grace passed away, aged about sixty-two, in the district of Crediton.

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