Here's an email from Bernice Pegler, with some information on Bristol and Gloucestershire Gingells...
Dear Craig
Here are some Gingell odds and ends to start with!
Glos Wills Index (from Gloucester Records Office)
Gingell Margaret - Horton, Glos - 1711
Gingell Joseph - Frampton Cotterell, Glos - 1728
Gingell William - Frampton Cotterell, Glos - 1751
Gingell Joseph - Frampton Cotterell, Glos - 1757
Gingell Thomas - Pucklechurch, Glos - 1761 (could be Ambrose’s father)
Gingell Joseph - Frampton Cotterell, Glos - 1789 (could be Ambrose’s brother)
Gingell John - Bristol, Glos - 1797 (could be Ambrose’s brother)
Gingell Ambrose - Oldland, Bitton, Glos - 1798 (born 1725 son of Thomas & Ann Gingell nee Packer who married 1719 at Abson, Glos)
Ambrose is my husband’s direct ancestor. Ambrose married widow *Ann Smith (born 1735 nee Brain) at Bitton, Glos 26.11.1761 he was “of Mangotsfield, Glos”. I have Ambrose Gingell’s signature taken from marriage register of Mangotsfield when he acted as witness to a couple of weddings. Ambrose must have moved to Oldland as he left a farm in his will. *Ann was the daughter of Saul Brain and Hannah (nee Robbins)
Gingell Mary - Bristol - 1799 (ref Bristol Wills Index)
Gingell Henry(senior) - Old Sodbury, Glos - 1802 ( “gentleman” - see Daniel etc below)
Gingell Ann - Bitton, Glos - 1818 (widow - of Ambrose) - of Oldland
Gingell Sarah - Bitton, Glos - 1821 spinster of Oldland
A Daniel Gingell (physician) was at Morton Tushing/Upper Morton, Thornbury, Glos on 1841 and 1851 census. He is the son of Henry Gingell and Mary (nee Garraway). Daniel was born Sodbury and he married Ann Cullimore(born 1781). Daniel & Ann had a son Daniel in 1814 who was a surgeon and who married Margaret Jackman. This Daniel’s sister, Anna Adams Gingell born 1816 married Stephen Cossham (he is a relative of Handel Cossham who gave the money for Cossham Hospital to be built in Kingswood, Bristol. Handel Cossham was the owner of many of the coalpits around Bitton/ Oldland, Kingswoood, Pucklechurch etc. There is also a Cossham Memorial Hall in Thornbury.
Daniel & Ann Gingell also had a Mary Raymond Gingell in 1822 who later married William Vawdry from Cornwall. They also had a son Raymond Gingell in 1824 a currier of Upper Morton in 1841 who died in Jamaica in 1860. Julia Raymond Gingell (of Moreton Grange) born 1850 Thornbury died a spinster in 1916 and left £5,204. In Thornbury church there is a plaque to this illustrious family I seem to remember. I have been in touch with a researcher of this family in the past - can’t remember her name offhand - would have to get my box files out for Gingell (x3) to find her name. She may have lived on the Isle of Wight in case she has already contacted you?
Back to my husband’s family - Ambrose had a brother Paul Gingell (baptised Abson, Glos 30.1.1723 - died 1769 in Bristol where he had a shop) “parents of Pucklechurch” who married Ann Mereweather in 1754 at St John, Bristol. Ambrose also had a brother Thomas baptised Abson 15.11.1719 and there was a sister Sarah Gingell baptised Abson 28.11.1721. Another sister was Susannah baptised Abson 10.3.1730 and another named Mary baptised 22.11.1727. Another brother was Joseph baptised 6.8.1738 and a Samuel baptised 28.1.1733 who married Margaret Williams of Siston, Glos in 1756. They were still at Pucklechurch in 1772 at least and this couple had an Ambrose in 1758 at Pucklechurch, keeping the name going in the famly.. Also there was a son John who married Mary Ithell in 1742. The parents of these are Thomas and Ann Gingell (nee Packer) who married n 1719 in Abson, Glos.
Thomas was baptised 4.10.1697 at Hawksbury, Glos and I believe he is the son of Cornelius Gingell of Hawksbury, Glos who married Mary Power. There is a Cornelius Gingell buried at Frampton Cotterell 20.5 1749 who I assume must be the same person.
Ambrose & Ann had a son George born 1772 and he is in my husband’s direct line. This George died 1810 and is buried in Bitton, St Mary graveyard 25.1.1810. He married Ann Coalman at Bitton 1793 and an Ann is buried there 10.9.1809. George and Ann (nee Coalman) had a son George born 1810 but he wasn’t baptised until 5 June1825 aged 15 at Oldland - probably because his dad George died at that time (1810). Now George born 1810 married Mary Taylor from Mangotsfield 1 March 1829 they moved to Bristol (St Augustine’s parish) and he was a sugar boiler of Host Street, Bristol by 1855. However, they had a son Thomas in 1829 but baptised 1831 at Holy Trinity, Kingswood, Bristol, Glos. Thomas’s sister is Margaret Gingell also baptised Kingswod, HT and she is the one who married James Needs at St Augustines in 1855. More another day.
Back to other Gingells:-
There was another Daniel born 1832 son of a John Gingell at Thornbury at Whitwilll Farm (born Thornbury) in 1841 and 1851..
Also, at Stoke Gifford, Glos in 1851 census there is a Henry Gingell (23) unmarried son of Mary Gingell - he a farm labourer born Hawksbury, Glos.
A Samuel Gingell of Oldland Common, Bitton was on 1891 census a carpenter born 1832 husband of Mary Ann same age also born Bitton.
A Thomas Gingell was at The Batch, Warmley, Bitton in 1891 born 1836 a coal miner (aged 55) husband of Elizabeth - both born Warmley.
A William Bruce Gingell born St Marylebone, London 1819 was the architect of the Bristol General Hospital (still standing). He lived Bristol with his family.
In a 1608 Military Survey of Mangotsfield, Glos there was a John Gingell. He was buried there 13.4.1633 so the Gingells have been in this neck of the woods for many years! I realise there was a Wiltshire family/families but where did they all originate???? Luckily all these South Glos parishes that I’ve mentioned in this letter are all close to the border with Wiltshire. In 1573 an Agnes Gingell married Thomas Tilladam in Thornbury. There are also Gingell marriages in Hawksbury in the 1600’s.
That’s about all for tonight - hope the above is of interest and that some new facts are amongst it for you. I’ll write again.
Bernice Pegler, Bristol
