NOTES  
EDWARD MANSELL Born 18/11/1810 Is shown as a sawyer by trade on Martin's birth certificate but on Martin's marriage certificate is shown as a farrier.
 
HANNAH MANSELL Born 15/6/1834 is shown as a gloveress

The following is an extract from the book "Stonesfield" by G H Powell. Stonesfield is only a few miles from Hanborough and both villages are roughly equidistant from Woodstock. "GLOVING (from Stonesfield, by G H Powell)

Gloving was the principal occupation of all the unmarried women of Stonesfield and many continued this work after marriage. Miss Thornett provides these details.

Miss Thornett learned from her mother and started to help with the stitching at the age of twelve. Many girls started as a part-time job as soon as they left school. In fine weather one would see the women sitting at their cottage doors for the best light with the ?Tranks? resting on a cloth spread on their knees to fold over the work when put aside. The front and back halves of the gloves were cut in one piece, joined by the side seam, and were cut out by a knife going round a kind of metal template. This unsewn shape was called a ?trank? and included with each trank were three quirks to go between the four fingers, and the ?forjets? (fourchettes) to go up the sides of the fingers, the thumb to be sewn in separately, and a welt to be sewn round the wrist.

The gloves had to be sewn by hand with cream cotton and the welts with brown cotton. Every stitch had to touch the last, back and front, as if machine sewn. To sew one pair of tranks complete took five hours, and for this the gloveress received 5d. with an extra farthing for sewing the button holes, which had to have a kind of narrow binding stitched round them. The gloveress did not have to add the buttons.

When finished, many of the gloveresses had to cycle (walk in earlier years) five miles each way to Woodstock to take in the gloves and get a fresh supply of unsewn tranks, small parts, and cottons. Gloving has been known in Woodstock as early as 1580. In the 19th century several firms sent out the unsewn gloves to over 1400 women in the surrounding villages, but Stonesfield was the most noted for its hand-sewing.   As you will see, gloveresses, although skilled, were at that time the equivalent of factory hands and very poorly paid.
MARTIN MANSELL
Occupation listed on birth certificate of son William Martin Mansell is Nurseryman. Date certificate was registered was 16/04/1886. The 1901 census listed Martin as a Gardner Florist and his age as 44 yrs.

At age 24 Martin was listed on the 1881 census as a Lab[ourer] Gardener and was lodging in the house of Thos. MARSHALL (born 1837) at 9 Hibernia Rd, Isleworth, Middlesex, England. MARSHALL is listed as occupation of "Lab[ourer] at Pr mills (paper manuf[acturer])" - possibly the same place that Martin worked at? It also says that he was unmarried.

On Martins marriage certificate there are two names listed as witnesses - Thomas Mansell and Jane Mansell, possibly his Uncle Thomas and his wife, or his brother Thomas and his wife.