Ivy CUMPER, John CUMPER residents 1936 to 1998 (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Saturday, May 27, 2017, 23:03 (2730 days ago) @ Jefff

From this old Trade Directory I can find Charles & James CUMPER, both pilots, possibly father and son ?. It also gives an interesting summary of how the area & it's inhabitants was seen at the time.

Morris & Co. Commercial Directory & Gazetteer of
Tidenham, with Hamlets 1876

BEACHLEY:-

Clergy and Gentry
ASH Rev. John George Hele, vicar, The Vicarage
JENKINS Robert Castle, Esq., J.P., Beachley lodge
MORGAN Mrs. Rachel, Woodbine cottage
 

Trades and Professions
CUMPER Charles, pilot
CUMPER James, pilot
DOWLE Henry, pilot
MILLER David, lessee of Salmon Fisheries
MILLS Elias, pilot

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cbennett/tidenham1876.htm

"The water-borne traffic of the Severn and Wye employed a section of the inhabitants of Tidenham from 1608 when six sailors were living in the parish. In the 1830s five mariners and three pilots were recorded at Beachley, and pilots lived in the village until the early 20th century. A mariner of Stroat owned sloops in 1808. In the early 19th century boatmen, some of them presumably employed on the passage boats at Beachley, formed one of the largest groups of non-agricultural workers in the parish. There was probably much small trading by water to the pills along the Severn; in 1663 the Tidenham manor court threatened with fines anyone taking carts to meet boats on the Severn at any place but the common pills, and in the early 19th century manure and coal were among merchandise landed at the pills. The Wye was much used as a waterway in the 19th century for the export of stone, timber, and bricks from the parish. As a participant in the trade of the rivers Tidenham was naturally dominated by the neighbouring port of Chepstow and inhabitants of the parish recorded as owning shares in ships in the late 18th and early 19th centuries were mostly in partnership with Chepstow merchants. Ship-building was recorded at Tidenham from 1591 when a shipwright of Stroat was mentioned, and there was a shipwright living at Beachley in 1602. In 1841 there were two shipwrights at Beachley and two ship-carpenters at Tutshill. The 20th-century shipyard at Beachley is mentioned above."