Green, Thomas

Gender: Male

Thomas Green sang All Through The Drunk to James Madison Carpenter between 1927 and 1935 in Sapperton. He said that it was sung at the end of the Sapperton Mummers play for which he also gave him the text.

Thomas Green was born in Sapperton and baptised in Sapperton Church on 5 July 1874.

At the time his parents, Jasper and Hester Green, were living in Oakridge. His father, Jasper Green, was born in Withington and baptised there on 9 November 1845, the son of an agricultural labourer and shepherd, John Green and his wife, Eliza. Jasper was brought up in Withington with his three brothers and one sister. In 1851 they were living at a cottage in Elwell, Withington and in 1861 at Cothill, Withington. At Elwell, on the old Withington—Foxcote road north-west of Upcote Farm, a mason called Anthony Stallard built a cottage in 1751, and by 1806 there was a group of five cottages there. Several buildings remained in 1883 as part of the Colesbourne estate’s Upcote farm.

Cottage at Elwell (Photo:Philip Halling)

He married Hester Nash, the daughter of a labourer from Sapperton , and had their first daughter, Louisa whilst living in Sapperton in 1864. They then moved to Oakridge and lived there for the birth of their subsequent children, Charles born about 1870, Eliza Anne born about 1871, Thomas Henry born in 1874, John William born about 1875, Frances Eliza born about 1877, and Fanny born about 1880. They then moved back to Sapperton where their daughter, Agnes Bertha, was born in 1881.By 1891 Jasper Green was living next to the Bell Inn, Sapperton and he and his son, Thomas, were both working as platelayers on the Great Western Railway.

Thomas Green married in 1903 and his wife, Hester, had a son, Johnny, in 1905 and another son, Edward William Charles, who was baptised in Sapperton on 23 December 1906 where Thomas Green was working as a labourer in. By 1911 the family were living in Mays Lane, Avening where Thomas was working as a shepherd. They had had another child who had not survived. Henry’s father, Jasper Green, died in December 1926 in the Cirencester registration district.

Notes by Carol Davies