FROG MILL GLOUCESTERSHIRE

[Netty]

Hello

I'm Netty living in Oxfordshire, UK. I have no idea if I am doing the correct thing here but I will just jump in. I found this website some months ago as I started trying to track down a census birthplace entry of Frog Mill. What I read was a reply from someone who had knowledge of the Gloucestershire accent suggesting an alternate spelling for a puzzling census entry. Some months later I have actually returned to the site to make my enquiry and hopefully to eventually break through some other brickwalls as I have time. I have great confidence in all the acquired knowledge there must be if only I can find the time to search the site!

I am hoping I can reach a local Gloucestershire resident who can tell me about this place Frog Mill. I can't find it but I have seen a reference to it as a place where post was dropped off to be delivered, possibly to Cheltenham, although this does not make sense to me. Is Frog Mill a mill, if so where? Is it the name of a village or small hamlet? Any ideas would be gratefully received.

[Alan Welsford]

Netty,

I know almost zilch about Glocestershire, I'll admit.

But have you seen this.....

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66470

It seems to refer to Frogmill as a place. There are many internet references to a Frogmill Inn that still exists as a fairly major looking venue.

You've probably seen this, but I thought I'd check.

Alan

[Cher]

Hi the only frog mill i have heard of is an inn in gloucestershire. If you google Frog Mill Inn Gloucestershire there is few sites/info

Cher(i dont live in glos but do rember passing it as a lot of my rellies come from glos)

[Alan Welsford]

Further to my last post....

1901 census includes people claiming birth as Glos, Frogmill, Shipton Olive

e,g.

Bangrove, Beckford, Glos
William Williams, Head, Unm, 32, Carter on Farm, b Glos, Frogmill, Shipton Olive

Class: RG13; Piece: 2457; Folio: 78; Page: 18

It seems almost certain to me that Shipton Olive is meant to be Shipton Oliffe, as in the link I have just sent you.

I suggest that is probably where Frogmill, Glos is meant to be.

Alan

[Mike_E]

Hi,

if you go to the URL below, and enter the postcode, you can zoom in on what was and still is a very nice Inn. The are a number of cottages next to it, which may be what you are looking for. I've eaten there a few times.
You can select an aerial view and see the houses.

http://maps.live.com/
GL54 4HT

[Netty]

Thanks for the info. So many references to Frogmill and although I can't locate it on a map as yet I now have a good idea of the location. Netty