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Many thanks - TBH I don't know. I had assumed that they were not brother and sister but did wonder if their fathers might be siblings which would have made Amy and George first cousins. Maybe not but it's a theory that I most interested in.
Somehow Amy Matthews was introduced to the visiting All Blacks squad in Gloucester in 1905 and a George Matthews played for Gloucester at that time. Name could be a coincidence but you never know
Thanks for your help.
Very best regards
Jon

I am trying to find out whether there was an relationship (cousin maybe) between an Amy Frances Matthews born 1881 and George Matthews also born 1881. In 1905 George was playing rugby for Gloucester and Amy was living in Brunswick Square, Gloucester (I think). I am researching how Amy managed to obtain the autographs of the original All Blacks when they came to Gloucester in October 1905. One of the All Blacks added a romantic note to her in Maori. I therefore wondered if Amy and George (who played for Gloucester RFC in that match) could be related and would explain the introduction. TIA

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.