Did people live at Cinderford Iron Works? (General)

by JaneyH , Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Tuesday, January 20, 2015, 21:22 (3589 days ago) @ Mike Pinchin

Many thanks for this Mike.

I guess it's more than possible that the Census enumerator got bored with writing "near Cinderford Iron Works" and started missing off the "near".

Nevertheless, if John Edwards' job was as an engine fitter or anything else to do with steam engines at the foundry, then I can imagine he would have needed to have lived close at hand.

I may be a clean-handed office worker myself, but my Dad has owned steam traction engines for many years, and I've spent enough time around them to know the amount of time and effort they need to be kept working, even for just a few hours. The Forest of Dean connection is on my Mum's side of the family, but even my Dad was impressed when I showed him the various records of my 3x great grandfather which show his occupation as "engineer". (My husband, however, is less impressed that this ancestor was born in Wales, given the rugby "thing"!)