Sapperton and Bisley, Gloucestershire

Family names of interest: ARNOLD (plus variants ARUNDELL, ARNDELL) and GARDINER (plus variant GARDNER), plus TOWNSEND, COATES, CLARK, HARRISON.

Sapperton

In Sapperton, I can trace my family back to a William ARNDELL, who was baptised in Sep 1769 at Sapperton, and an Ann TOWNSEND, born about 1772 in Sapperton. William and Ann, my great-great-great-grandparents, were married on 5th May 1799 at Sapperton, and raised 9 children. Although William used the surname ARNDELL, many of the children are baptised as ARNOLD, and this name becomes the preferred surname for the family in the 19th century.

Gravestone of William and Ann ARNOLD

Their youngest known child was my great-great-grandfather, Thomas ARNOLD, born about 1815, and baptised on 12 Nov 1815 at Sapperton. On 5th Aug 1848, at Sapperton, he married Ahinoam GARDINER of Bisley. They raised 9 children at Sapperton, including my great-grandfather, William Frederick ARNOLD.

The Bell Inn

The ARNOLD family were the owners of the Bell Inn at Sapperton in the early to middle part of the 19th century. It's not clear when the inn came into the family's possession, but in the will of Ann ARNOLD, dated 1853, she leaves the inn to my great-great-grandfather, Thomas ARNOLD. Unfortunately, something went wrong in my inheritance plan, because by 1872, the inn was owned by Messrs Cripps and Co., Cirencester, with the licensee being John CROOK.

	Sapperton and Bisley, Gloucestershire
Links Try the LostCousins site. The GENUKI pages for Gloucestershire, Bisley and Sapperton. The Rootsweb mailing list for Gloucestershire. The Gloucestershire Family History Society (GFHS) website. Allan Taylor's excellent site "All the Cotswolds", with pages for Sapperton and Bisley. Extensive descriptions of Sapperton and Bisley in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume XI: Bisley and Longtree Hundreds The The Bell Inn at Sapperton. The Bisley village website, including the family history page. PicturesOfEngland.com has some lovely photographs of Bisley.	Family names of interest: ARNOLD (plus variants ARUNDELL, ARNDELL) and GARDINER (plus variant GARDNER), plus TOWNSEND, COATES, CLARK, HARRISON. Sapperton In Sapperton, I can trace my family back to a William ARNDELL, who was baptised in Sep 1769 at Sapperton, and an Ann TOWNSEND, born about 1772 in Sapperton. William and Ann, my great-great-great-grandparents, were married on 5th May 1799 at Sapperton, and raised 9 children. Although William used the surname ARNDELL, many of the children are baptised as ARNOLD, and this name becomes the preferred surname for the family in the 19th century. Their youngest known child was my great-great-grandfather, Thomas ARNOLD, born about 1815, and baptised on 12 Nov 1815 at Sapperton. On 5th Aug 1848, at Sapperton, he married Ahinoam GARDINER of Bisley. They raised 9 children at Sapperton, including my great-grandfather, William Frederick ARNOLD. The Bell Inn The ARNOLD family were the owners of the Bell Inn at Sapperton in the early to middle part of the 19th century. It's not clear when the inn came into the family's possession, but in the will of Ann ARNOLD, dated 1853, she leaves the inn to my great-great-grandfather, Thomas ARNOLD. Unfortunately, something went wrong in my inheritance plan, because by 1872, the inn was owned by Messrs Cripps and Co., Cirencester, with the licensee being John CROOK.
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