Gloucestershire Iron Manufactory - Redbrook (General)

by Sparrow , Monday, May 30, 2011, 23:58 (4994 days ago) @ unknown

Vurrister... any information about the early foundry's at Upper Redbrook is useful, but I don't know that my HILL family were actually born in the area.
Timothy Hill was born abt. 1742 and his brother Moses about 1749. The references to Newland and Redbrook only relate to Timothy c.1770. He married in London in 1771 and established an ironmongers at No. 1 Surrey side, Westminster Bridge, around this time.
He was also appointed a bellhanger c.1788. The ironmongers business remained in the family until 1839 and other references I have are for Bromsgrove & Redditch - Worcester in relation to the manufacture of nails. There was a reference to a Daniel Hill in the Will of Timothy (1792) but no sight of a Daniel has been made in connection to Timothy or Moses.
Neither Timothy or Moses birth/baptism appear in the numerous sources I have searched in Gloucester, Worcester or Monmouth - even London, their descendants have been much easier to pursue.

Thus any links for Timothy to the Forest of Dean area in the 1760-70's may only have been for a limited period and only as a means of carrying out his trade.

But any Hill detail and particularly detail of the forges in that area and era provides a better overall picture of the history.

Thank you
Sparrow