More About Avening

Avening--pronounced "Av-ning" "Av" has a long A sound.

Peter LeChevalier (the father) bought a mill here in 1766 and owned it until he sold it in 1800.

"Of the three mills recorded in Avening village on the Avening stream, the highest, Avening Mill, (fn. 50 was a cloth-mill. In 1655...Richard's [Remington] son Samuel sold the mill in 1766 to Edmund Clutterbuck for Peter Le Chevalier, an alien. Le Chevalier, who was granted letters of denization in 1770, carried on a baking and malting business at the mill, apparently converting it to a corn-mill. He sold it in 1800 to John Blackwell of Nailsworth, clothier, who reconverted it for fulling and conveyed it to William Overbury of Tetbury, wool-stapler in 1807...In 1972 the four-storey early 19th century buildings were unoccupied." --"Avening: Economic History', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 11: Bisley and Longtree Hundreds (1976), pp. 160-62. URL: http://222.british-history.ac.uk/report. Date accessed: 08 Jan 2006 by Eileen Cox




I have found three of his children's christening records here, Jane ( in 1768), Thomas (in 1771), and Anne (in 1773), but I can't find Peter (about 1779) and Francis (about 1764).