I wonder if John Stroud recorded as aged 70 in 1841 and living in Tredington is your 4xg-grandfather?
HO107; Piece 367; Book: 9; Civil Parish: Tredington; County: Gloucestershire; Enumeration District: 8; Folio: 1; Page: 1; Line: 13
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?h...c=&pid=2062965
This is probably for the same man:
Deaths Mar 1845
STROUD John Tewkesbury 11 404