Aberafon <-> Wye valley link ? (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Monday, May 26, 2008, 22:44 (6030 days ago) @ LISA EVANS

Whitchuch / New Weir / Chapel Hill all link to Forges on the Wye

Year: 1783
Month: Jun
Day: 6
Grooms_Surname: HADDOCK
Grooms_Forenames: Rawlins
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Grooms_Residence: Whitchurch Glos
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Brides_Surname: WILLIAMS
Brides_Forenames: Elizabeth
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Brides_Residence: Chapel Hill
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Licence_or_Banns: banns
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Event: Marriage
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Parish_Chapel: Chapel Hill Monmouth

The answer has to be Industrial !
either Tin or Iron ( or both) ; I suspect Copper and Tin plate

The power of the Wye was being used in the Forges at New Weir and Red Brook etc, and it appears the Haddocks were Forgemen. perhaps skilled and in demand....

back in Aberafon / Neath Tin plate and iron was a major industry too.

Mr Costaria John Coster, a Cornish mineworker who hailed from the Forest of Dean. He became manager and later owner of Copper Works at Upper Redbrook. He died in 1718 and was succeeded by his son , Thomas, who took up a lease of copper works in Neath, and was working there in 1733.

In 1680 a second smelter was erected at Upper Redbrook in the Forest of Dean by John Coster. His partner was William Dockwra, who probably obtained his copper from these works for use in his brass foundry at Esher in Surrey. In 1691 a further smelter in the Forest was erected at Lower Redbrook, the premises of the English Copper Company. Amongst the technical staff was Gabriel Wayne.

Following the deaths of John Coster, jnr in 1734, his brothers Robert in 1735
and Thomas in 1739, control of their business was transferred to Thomas' daughter, Jane, who after a number of years sold her interest to a partner, Joseph Percival. He changed the name of the company to Joseph Percival & Copper Company, transferring the smelting branch of the business to South Wales. Frances Coster succeeded to the management of the Upper Redbrook works on the death of his father, John. Frances remained in control at Upper Redbrook, until the business was transferred to Neath.The Lower Redbrook works continued in operation until 1790, in which year the English Copper Company, having previously moved their smelting facilities to South Wales, sold it to David and William Tanner of Monmouth.

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