Edwin JONES/ GOODCHAPE? (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Friday, February 03, 2012, 16:20 (4680 days ago) @ unknown

Hi Sheila,
welcome to this great forum and website. Did you know both the forum and the website can be fully searched via their respective search "boxes" ?. Although Jones is a very common Forest name you may find a relevant priorthread in the forum. Also there is an Old Photos section which may well help you.

I am also a Jones and was born n bred in Bilson, Lower Cinderford. However I doubt that we are related, my Jones line stems from Lydbrook. To my surprise on joining the forum last year, I found statistically Jones is by the most common (I prefer "popular") Forest surname. This wasn't my impression when living in the Cinderford/eastern side of the Forest, so I'd concluded they're concentrated in the north/western side such as Lydbrook due to the high numbers from Wales settling around the Wye valley side during the Industrial Revolution, or indeed up into Herefordshire. That said, I've recently found many Jones' in the older part of town towards Cinderford Bridge & Ruspidge, so I was clearly moving in the wrong social circles !.

When you say "Union" Stores, where do you get this phrase from ?. Apologies as I'm under the weather at the mo, but (I think?) this is a new term to me, and I've been studying books & photos of Cinderford for a few years now.

Could this be anything to do with the Co-Operative Stores I wonder ?

I'll start digging thro my books and researches (sure there's some Edwins/Wallaces in there but...), only yesterday I was again wishing I had an index to all of Humphrey Phelps' marvelous "Old Photos" books !

Good luck Jeff

ps If you've not visited Cinderford I wouldn't go this time of year. My mother's still there and its VERY cold today, plus sadly it's a rather rundown town compared to the past, it was a lively place only 20 years back, but still great people tho' !!. Come the Spring and its an ideal place to tour the Forest from. ALSO Cinderford library carries the local Newspaper archives which may well help you, many delightful old adverts etc, please see this prior post.

http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=34114

Speak later, Jeff