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Hi Elizabeth - that is tremendously good work. Thank-you, very much appreciated.
Kind regards
Jon

The Hodges family owned Slowwe House, Arlingham from the C17th I believe, and the Sayers and Carter were descended from the Hodges through the female line when there was no male heir. There is a great deal of Slowwe House and Carter family documents in Gloucester Records Office.
Also in Gloucester Records Office are books of the inscription of tombs and gravestones in Arlingham Churchyard recorded by M.K Curtis, Mike Curtis did this some decades ago before many inscriptions became indistinct.

Woolthorpe is of course only a short stroll from Slowwe House.

Brickyard Close I suspect would be at the end often Passage Road straight, on the right before you take the final bend before the Old Passage Inn. In the field to your right on that bend you will see a large pond where the clay was dug out for the bricks that were made on that site. The nearby car park to the Old Passage Inn was originally a pill which boats could enter on high tide and coal was brought in there for the brick kilns.

Hi Dott - and are those Carters (Henry and Thomas) who were late C18th and early C19th landlords of Red Lion, Arlingham ancestors of yours. Or were they possibly the affluent Carters of Puckpool Farm, Arlingham. In our house here in Arlingham there's a spiral staircase fitted about 1760 which has the signature Wm Carter engraved into - we always assumed that he was the carpenter who fitted it. There was a William Carter living 50 yards away at the time.

I have just seen a record on an inventory that suggest that Edmund Gabb was the predecessors of John and Florence Govier as landlords of the Red Lion. I had though that they Edmund Gabb was their successor at the pub as I have also seen documents 1916 linking him to the pub in around 1912 which was when John Govier died. Does anyone know whether Florence continued as landlady of the pub for a few years after her husband died.?