Upper Redbrook - 19C - Iron Works (General)

by brian.burgham , Newbury Berks, Friday, March 19, 2010, 15:59 (5443 days ago) @ RER

Thanks for your input. I had the Hopkins connection but no date. If you can enlarge it would be appreciated.

We found Sarah Ann Hawkins buried at Newland alongside her father Thomas on the north side, quite close to the church.

Harriet Weare was Thomas' second wife, the first being Esther Knight who he married on 21 July 1816 at Newland. She died in November 1833, and Thomas married Harriet on 11 Jan 1836.

There is a handwritten letter by Thomas Burgham in the Gloucester Record Office addressed curiously enough to a Reverend gentleman about the quality of the pig iron that was used at the Redbrook foundry. Apart from that, I have not been able to find out anything about the foundry or more importantly where Thomas came from. There was another Thomas Burgum / Burgham who was buried at Newland in 1833 as well as a Sarah three years later. I am unclear as what was their connection with each other. They were most likely the Thomas Burgum and Sarah Partridge who were married at Lydney in December 1780, but that would be an assumption, unproved.

I have a photo of the gravestone if you would like it but am not clear how to add it to this posting. Email would be OK.

Brian Burgham